Yellowstone River Impression by Christiane Schulze

About "Yellowstone River Impression"

by Christiane Schulze

About the artwork

Copyright: Christiane Schulze

The Yellowstone River is a right tributary of the Missouri River. It is 1114 kilometers long and flows through the western United States. The Hidatsa Indians called the river Mi tse a-da-zi because of the yellow coloration of the rock on its banks, which the early French trappers translated as Rivière des Roches Jaunes and Rene Jessaune in 1798 for the Canadian explorer David Thompson as Yellow Stone (English).

The Yellowstone River rises in northwestern Wyoming, near Younts Peak, at the North American Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. It flows northward through Yellowstone National Park, passes through Yellowstone Lake, drops down three waterfalls, and forms the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.

Farther north in Montana, it flows through the Absaroka Mountain Range and is fed by mountain water at Livingston, where it turns east-northeast and winds through the northern Plains to Billings.

East of Billings it is joined by the Bighorn River, at Miles City by the Tongue River, and in eastern Montana by the Powder River.

Immediately after the North Dakota border it finally joins the Missouri. The Yellowstone is wider than the Missouri at this point.

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 uppe