Shoshone River

The Shoshone River between Cody and Yellowstone Park

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The Shoshone River is a 160 km (100 miles) long river in northern Wyoming in the United States. Its headwaters originate in the Absaroka Range in the Shoshone National Forest. Near Lovell, Wyoming it flows into the Bighorn River, in the southern part of the dammed from the Yellowtail Dam Bighorn Lake. On his run of the Shoshone River passes through the cities ( City's ) Cody, Powell, Lovell and Byron. In the vicinity of Cody, it flows through a volcanically active area with fumaroles called Colter 's Hell. This contributed to the fact that the river in old maps of Wyoming is known as the Stinking Water River. The current name was adopted in 1901 on the public wish.

West of the river in Shoshone Canyon Cody is dammed by the Buffalo Bill Dam, which was built as part of the Shoshone Project, one of the first hydraulic engineering projects of the United States. A number of hot springs along the old river course was lost in the reservoir. In Buffalo Bill Reservoir, the two sources of the Shoshone flow together: the North Fork, which comes through a long canyon from the Absaroka Range, near the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park, and the South Fork of the Shoshone River, at the southern end of the Absarokas arises.