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Show Rivers Diverted From Beds by Fields of Ice Agassis, with an outlet to the Minnesota Minne-sota river valley. Part of the watershed water-shed of the Red river became a permanent per-manent source of water for a river Bowing to the south and the original head of the Missouri river. This river la now knowo as the Jan-ta river. With the melting of the great Ice dam, the Red river resumed ita normal flow to the north, but the others continued con-tinued to tbe south. Exchange. It Is a long way from present-day floods along the Mississippi river back to the great Ice age, but happenings of tbe latter period have considerable bearing on the trials and tribulations of the valley dwellers. Before the great fields of Ice worked their way down from tbe north, at least two rivers, the .upper Missouri and tbe Yellowstone, Sowed northeast and emptied Into Hudson bay. With the advent of the sheets of lea, however, how-ever, these two rivers were forced to run to tbe south, and their combined waters cut the gorge now followed by the Missouri through the Dakmas. At the same time the Red river became be-came a bugs pond called glacial Lake |