Great Northern’s Republic branch crossed the Columbia at Marcus on this bridge. The GN was relocated and the town of Marcus was razed to make way for Lake Roosevelt.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Marias River (Mont.)
Marias River "flows in a channel two or three hundred feet below the prairie level, and is tolerable well wooded. The water was at that time one hundred and fifty feet wide and two to four feet deep, slightly milky, with a swift current and...