The Yellowstone River is a tributary Missouri of the Rivers. It is 1,080 km long and is in the west of the USA. The Hidatsa Indians called the river Mi tse A-there-di, which the early French Trapper with of the Roches Jaunes translated and Rene Jessaune in the year 1798 for the Canadian explorer David Thompson with Yellow Stone (English). The Hidatsa designated the river in such a way due to the yellow rock of the rock on its banks.

The Yellowstone River rises in the northwest of the Federal State Wyoming, in close proximity to Younts peak, with the North American Wasserscheide in the Rocky Mountains. It flows to the north by the Yellowstone national park, flows through the Yellowstone Lake, falls three down and forms the Grand Canyon OF the Yellowstone.

In the north in Montana it continues to flow through the Absaroka mountain range and with Livingston by the water of the mountains is fed, where it turns off eastnortheastward and winds themselves by the northern Plains after Billings.

East of Billings it receives increase from the Bighorn River, with Miles town center from the Tongue River and in the eastern Montana from the Powder River.

In the extreme west of Montana it finally flows into the Missouri. There the Yellowstone is actually broader than the Missouri.

History

The Yellowstone was explored 1806 by William Clark, during the return journey of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Already in former times the Yellowstone was an important route of transportation of the Indians. In 19. It won century also for the white settlers at meaning. In Montana it was used for the 1860er years extensively to the irrigation.

See also: List of the rivers

Related links

• USGS Site: Lewis and Clark expedition (English)
• US Federal State Montana: Yellowstone River Physical feature Inventory (English)
• US Federal State Montana: Lower Yellowstone Corridor Physical feature Inventory (English)
• Fly Fishing the Yellowstone (English)

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