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Tongue and rises
The Tongue River rises in the highlands of the Big Horn Mountains in north central Wyoming descends the eastern side of mountains, emerging from Tongue River's mountain canyon near Dayton, Wyoming.
Bourne Eau is a short river which rises in the town of Bourne in Lincolnshire, England, and flows in an easterly direction to join the River Glen at Tongue End.

Tongue and Wyoming
Birney is located on Tongue River Road near the Tongue River, about northeast of Sheridan, Wyoming.
From there the trail crossed Goose Creek and continued out Soldier Creek to present day Keystone Road, eventually crossing Tongue River between where Ranchester and Dayton, Wyoming were later located.
The Tongue River ( Assiniboine: Tacéži wakpá ) is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 265 mi ( 426 km ) long, in the U. S. states of Wyoming and Montana.
The river then flows eastward, past Ranchester, Wyoming and merges with Goose Greek, after which the Tongue turns to flow northeast into Montana where it is dammed, forming the Tongue River Reservoir.
Tongue River Canyon can refer to either the river's mountain canyon in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming, or the river's prairie canyon in Montana, located downstream from the Tongue River Dam and Reservoir.
Hanging Woman Creek empties into the Tongue at Birney, Montana, about above the mouth of the Tongue, and its headwaters are away in northern Wyoming.
The Tongue and its tributaries flow through parts of Custer, Powder River, Rosebud and Big Horn Counties, Montana, and Sheridan County, Wyoming.
The buff colored sandstones and shales of the Tongue River sandstone are visible all along the greater part of the Tongue River from Dayton, Wyoming to a point north of Ashland, Montana.
The Tongue River sandstone member outcrops widely over portions of southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming and it is best known for its coal.
Where these coal beds are thick and also close to the surface in the Powder River Basin in northern Wyoming and southern Montana they are mined in large open pit mines, like the mines along the Tongue in the vicinity of Decker, Montana.
Where the Tongue River now flows in Montana and Wyoming, the sedimentary rock formation that is today known as the Tongue River sandstone began to form about 60 million years ago, when mountain uplifts began rising from a shallow sea.
By 1490, the Crow were firmly established in a homeland that included the Tongue River valley – in south central / southeastern Montana, and northern Wyoming.
Thereafter bands of Lakota led by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and others, along with their Northern Cheyenne allies, hunted and raided throughout the length and breadth of eastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming, including the area of the Tongue River Valley, until the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

Tongue and Big
Even the embryonic art of the motion picture turned to Pierrot before the century was out: he appeared, not only in early celluloid shorts ( Georges Méliès's The Nightmare, The Magician ; Alice Guy's Arrival of Pierrette and Pierrot, Pierrette's Amorous Adventures ; Ambroise-François Parnaland's Pierrot's Big Head / Pierrot's Tongue, Pierrot-Drinker ), but also in Emile Reynaud's Praxinoscope production of Poor Pierrot ( 1892 ), the first animated movie and the first hand-colored one.
Their tribal area included the river valleys of the Judith River ( Buluhpa ' ashe —" Plum River "), Powder River, Tongue River, Big Horn River and Wind River as well as the Bighorn Mountains ( Iisiaxpúatachee Isawaxaawúua ), Pryor Mountains ( Baahpuuo Isawaxaawúua ), Wolf Mountains ( Cheetiish —" Wolf Teeth Mountains ") and Absaroka Range ( also called Absalaga Mountains ).
The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 with the United States confirmed as Crow lands a large area centered on the Big Horn Mountains: the area ran from the Big Horn Basin on the west, to the Musselshell River on the north, and east to the Powder River ; it included the Tongue River basin.
Big Horn is located on the eastern slope of the Big Horn Mountains along Little Goose Creek, a tributary of the Tongue River.
These are: " Nod Over Coffee " on Chase the Buffalo ; " Satellite Sky " on Making Light of It ; " Tip of My Tongue " on Everything Matters, " Rise from the Ruins " on State of Grace, " Another Day in Limbo " on Great Big World ; and " Nothing but the Wind " on That Kind of Love.
Tongue River Watershed Map, Montana and WyomingThe Tongue River is fed by winter snow pack from the higher elevations of the Big Horn Mountains, early snow runoff of the lower elevations in the drainage basin, and ground water from springs in the drainage basin.
The term Powder River basin can refer to the topographic drainage basin lying to the east of the Tongue River drainage basin, but the term is used in this part to denote the larger geological structure which stretches from the Black Hills to the Big Horn Mountains and which includes the Tongue River drainage area.
As the Tongue flows out from the Big Horn Mountains it passes over the uplifted layers of increasingly younger sedimentary rocks.
In the Big Horn Mountains the Tongue flows in its mountain canyon of Madison Limestone, which was deposited during Early to Middle Mississippian time, about 359 to 326 million years ago.
The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 confirmed a large area centered on the Big Horn Mountains as Crow lands — the area ran from the Big Horn Basin on the west, to the Musselshell River on the north, and east to the Powder River, and included the Tongue River basin.
As a consequence of this engagement, on June 11, General Crook moved his base camp to the junction of Big and Little Goose Creeks, some 7 miles south of the junction of Goose Creek and the Tongue River, where Sheridan, Wyoming is now located.
After the battle Crook returned south of the Tongue River to the base camp on Goose Creek, and he was still there on June 25, 1876 when General George A. Custer was defeated at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, some 65 miles to the north.
In Wyoming a network of paved roads follow the Tongue river westward to Ranchester and Dayton, where the Tongue comes out of the Big Horn Mountains.

Tongue and Horn
The Tongue River Valley, before it reaches the Big Horn Mountains, is part of an extensive drainage basin which is an environment in which wild game thrives.
The headwaters of the Tongue located in the Big Horn National Forest, in the Big Horn Mountains provide resources for deer, elk, bear and mountain lion hunting.

Tongue and Mountains
In its upper reaches above the Tongue River Reservoir, and extending into the Big Horn Mountains, the Tongue River is fished for trout.

Tongue and flows
Continuing northeast from the reservoir, the river flows through Tongue River's prairie canyon, and the Tongue River breaks passing Birney, Montana.
As the Tongue leaves the mountains it flows through younger formations, including the distinctive thick red Chugwater Formation, deposited during the Triassic time, 250 to 199 million years ago.
As the river approaches Miles City the valley changes appearance to grassy rolling hills, as the river leaves the Tongue River formation and flows through the Lebo shale and the Tullock sedimentary formations.
At that time, from 35 to 60 million years ago, the area where the Tongue River now flows would have appeared as a dense swampy jungle.
From the Decker area downstream to about Birney the river flows through the prairie in a canyon carved from the Tongue River sandstone.

Tongue and through
This was done through the formation of ' cells ', the first operating in Bangor in April 1963 by Owain Owain who also founded and edited the Society's only publication, Tafod y Ddraig (' The Dragon's Tongue ') and designed the logo.
Most of the course of the river is through the beautiful and varied landscapes of eastern Montana, including the Tongue River Canyon, the Tongue River breaks, the pine hills of southern Montana, and the buttes and grasslands that were formerly the home of vast migratory herds of American Bison.
The area passed through more long periods of geologic time, during which new sedimentary layers buried this entire sandy silty layer along with its deposits of peat, under thousands of feet of newer sediments, compressing the sandy silty deposits into the Tongue River sandstone of today, and also compressing and changing the layers of peaty organic material into thinner layers of lignite coal.
The sandstone hillsides and bluffs along the Tongue and its tributaries often have reddish bands running through them or they are capped with resistant reddish layer.
The Kiowa bands migrated southward, and the Crow remained dominant in an extensive area, including the Tongue River, in south central Montana through the 18th century, 19th century and the era of the fur trade.
This line also passed through Miles City and crossed the Tongue River between the existing NP tracks and the Yellowstone River.
These bonus points may come from either scoring an ' A ' or ' B ' grade in CCA, taking Higher Mother Tongue Language and obtaining a minimum of ' D7 ', or through affiliation ( for feeder schools ).
At present, the Old Tongue can still be seen through names of places ( e. g. Manetheren or Aridhol, or even Alcair Dal ), things ( e. g. names of Aiel warrior societies ), inscriptions ( e. g. " Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin "), and in certain phrases used in conversation, especially by Matrim Cauthon, who inherited fluency in the language from the memories he received from the Eelfinn, but even before that knew the language piecemeal.
Tongue is the main village in a series of crofting townships that runs through Coldbackie, Dalharn, Blandy, and the harbour of Scullomie to the deserted township of Slettel.
Two songs from the EP, " Retina Sees Rewind " and " Cayman Tongue ", were released through iTunes.
Much of the local industry during the 19th century revolved around the old mills which were located on the River Poddle which passes through the area, with part of its flow diverted into the " City Watercourse " culvert at " The Tongue " or " Stone Boat ".
It is one of a series of crofting townships, running from Tongue, through Coldbackie, StrathTongue, Dalharn, Blandy and Scullomie to the deserted township of Slettel that sit on the eastern fringes of the Kyle of Tongue.
Filipinos also believed in the Dila ( The Tongue ), a spirit that passes through the bamboo flooring of provincial houses, then licks certain humans to death.
Midway through third quarter, Jets defensive back Reggie Tongue intercepted a pass from Roethlisberger and returned it 86 yards for a touchdown.
It branches from the A9 near Tain and runs generally north through Bonar Bridge and Lairg, until Tongue.
At Tongue the road turns east, following the north coast, passing through Thurso, and eventually ending at John o ' Groats, where it meets the A99.

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