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The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 692 miles (1,114 km) long, in the Western United States.Considered the principal tributary of upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains and high plains of southern Montana and northern Wyoming, and stretching east from the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of Yellowstone ...
The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.The nation's longest, [13] it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) [9] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.
Known for. Setting multiple speed and distance records on the Missouri River. Joseph Marie LaBarge[ a ] (October 1, 1815 – April 3, 1899) was an American steamboat captain, most notably of the steamboats Yellowstone, and Emilie, [ b ] that saw service on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, bringing fur traders, miners, goods and supplies up ...
Coordinates: 47°59′06″N 103°59′20″W. Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center. The Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center is a museum near Williston, North Dakota. It is dedicated to telling the story of the confluence of the Yellowstone and the Missouri Rivers in the western section of North Dakota near the ...
The “first national park” was born 151 years ago, on March 1, 1872, when President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act.. Yellowstone National Park is ...
The Yellowstone expedition was an expedition to the American frontier in 1819 and 1820 authorized by United States Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, with the goal of establishing a military fort or outpost at the mouth of the Yellowstone River in present-day North Dakota. Sometimes called the Atkinson–Long Expedition after its two principal ...
1871 Hayden Survey at Mirror Lake en route to East Fork of the Yellowstone River, August 24, 1871-William H. Jackson photo When President Ulysses S. Grant created Yellowstone National Park with the signing of the Act of Dedication, March 1, 1872, it was the result of three major expeditions into the region, expeditions that brought the wonders ...
Captain. Battles/wars. American Civil War, Indian Wars. Gustavus Cheyney Doane (May 29, 1840 – May 5, 1892) was a U.S. Army Cavalry Captain, explorer, inventor and Civil War soldier who played a prominent role in the exploration of Yellowstone as a member of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition. [1] Doane was a participant in the Marias ...