Heart River

On the twenty-first of October, the explorers reached a creek to which the Indians gave the name of Chisshetaw, now known as Heart River, which, rising in Stark County, North Dakota, and running circuitously through Morton County, empties into the Missouri opposite the city of Bismarck.

First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805

The Heart River is a really beautiful stream, much underrated as plains rivers go.

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The Heart River is a really beautiful stream, much underrated as plains rivers go.

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They drilled holes in the ice, which in some cases were the size of cars, dropped clay explosives in there and set off 80 explosions down the river and that helped free up some of that ice that was coming down the Heart River.

CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2009 2009

From Sully Creek they led it across the headwaters of the Heart River and the countless affluents of the Grand and the Cannonball, past Slim

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

Next day, while they were in camp on the Heart River, an acquaintance of Sylvane's, a lawyer who rejoiced in the harmonious name of Western

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

About the year 1750 they were living about the mouth of Heart River, in the vicinity of the present cities of Mandan and Bismarck, in nine villages, two of which were on the east bank of the Missouri.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

At Heart River we met the Robert Campbell, and, as agreed upon, we turned back in her company.

Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri: the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 1898

At ten o'clock of the second day after this, when we were near Heart River, on the south side of the Missouri, we discovered six Indians, who had gone hunting while the ice was still strong; but it had broken up before their return, and now they had no means of crossing the river.

Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri: the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 1898

Indians were seen until we came to the mouth of Heart River, where, on the

Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri: the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 1898