Yellowstone River
Yellowstone River and its main tributaries
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone with the Lower Falls in the background
The yellow stone gave Yellowstone its name
Template: Infobox River / Obsolete
The Yellowstone River is a right tributary of the Missouri River. It is 1114 km long and flows through the western United States. The Hidatsa Indians called the river because of the yellow color of the rocks on its banks Mi tse a -da -zi what the early French trappers with Rivière des Roches Jaunes translated and Rene Jessaune in 1798 for the Canadian explorer David Thompson with Yellowstone (English).
The Yellowstone River rises in the northwest of the state of Wyoming, near Younts Peak, at the North American Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. It flows northward through Yellowstone National Park, flows through the Yellowstone Lake, falls down three waterfalls and formed the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
Farther north in Montana, it flows through the Absaroka mountain range and is fed by the water of the mountains in Livingston, where he veers ostnordostwärts and winds through the northern Plains to Billings.
East of Billings he receives increase from the Bighorn River at Miles City from the Tongue River and in eastern Montana from the Powder River.
Immediately after the border to North Dakota, he finally empties into the Missouri. The Yellowstone is at this point wider than the Missouri.
History
The Yellowstone in 1806 explored by William Clark, during the return journey from the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Earlier, the Yellowstone was an important transportation route of the Indians. In the 19th century, he also won for the white settlers in importance. In Montana, it was used extensively since the 1860s for irrigation.
Larger tributaries
- Clarks Fork
- Gardiner River
- Lamar River
- Powder River
- Tongue River
- Bighorn River ( headwaters: Wind River)