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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river, about 360 km (225 mi) long, rising in northern Wyoming and flowing generally northeast to the Yellowstone River in southeast Montana.

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Examples

  • He said the Tongue River could hit a record crest and that the Powder River at Locate is nearing its crest.

    Floods sweep through eastern Montana 2011

  • 'We will cross the Missouri River at Wolf Point, cross the Yellowstone, and go up the Tongue River into the mountains,' he told them.

    Toby Barlow: How Those Indians Doing Anyway? 2008

  • In November 2003, about two dozen ranchers met in a house on the Diamond Cross Ranch, an 82,000-acre spread along the Tongue River which had recently been bought by billionaire Forrest E. Mars Jr., whose family owns the Mars candy conglomerate.

    War on the Range 2008

  • The listing also includes the V Bar C, Pitchfork and LX Bar ranches as well as five miles on both sides of the Tongue River, frontage on the Powder River, private cattle-ranching operations, mineral interests and energy reserves.

    In Hamptons, Capote's Old Home Is Listed 2008

  • Ranching Marketing Associates The property includes mineral interests, water rights and five miles on both sides of the Tongue River.

    Private Properties 2008

  • In April 1876, Sitting Bull, of the Hunkpapa Sioux, held a great council at Chalk Buttes on the Tongue River.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • He had established a pioneer herd from cattle collected along the old California and Oregon trails, and operated ranches on the Sun River range and the Tongue River.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • General Crook left Fort Fetterman on May 29, with over a thousand soldiers, and moved toward Tongue River.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • They beat the ground with their hands, and then the three war parties moved on to Tongue River for a night camp.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • A few years later they were given a reservation on the Tongue River.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

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