Platte

Platte, or NEBRASKA, an affluent of the Missouri River, is formed by the junction in west central Nebraska of the North and South Forks, which rise among the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado, are respectively some 800 and 550 miles long, and are neither of them navigable. The general course of the Platte is eastward, in a wide shallow stream, over the treeless plains of Nebraska, till it reaches the Missouri after a winding course of about 450 miles. With its forks it drains some 300,000 sq. m., but like them it is not navigable.