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  • This is a beautiful and very fertile valley, about twenty miles long and five or six broad; a bright cold stream called the Fourche de Glace, or Ice River, runs through it.

    The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850

  • This is a beautiful and very fertile valley, about twenty miles long and five or six broad; a bright cold stream called the Fourche de Glace, or Ice River, runs through it.

    The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Washington Irving 1821

  • In La Fourche Parish, in southern Louisiana, local officials are counting on levees as high as one-and-a-half meters to hold back flood waters, but some rural areas and homes outside the system likely will be inundated.

    Rural Louisiana Has Mixed Feelings Over Flooding Plan 2011

  • The Athens Plateau ecoregion is composed of open hills and low ridges that are widely underlain by Mississippian Stanley Shale; lithology contrasts with the sandstone, shale, and chert of the Central Mountain Ranges (36b), the sandstone and shale of the more rugged Fourche Mountains (36d), and the unconsolidated sediments of the lower, less rugged South Central Plains (35).

    Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA) 2009

  • Instead the money was handed out by banks who just happen to be large campaign donors and who have their tasty chunk of pork coming with the bankruptcy bill next month, to people across the country including the 9/11-needy country radio station KBFS in Belle Fourche, South Dakota and Little Dogs Resort & Salon in Utah.

    09/09/2005 2005

  • The Belle Fourche stage station, stockaded against Indian attack, offered shelter to stage passengers from the Black Hills.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • General Crook and the “horse-meat marchers” reached the Belle Fourche River on September 12, where rations from Deadwood met the command.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • By 1879 there were enough ranches along the Powder to organize Johnson County, and thousands of cattle were being trailed into the watered ranges of the Tongue, the Belle Fourche, the Greybull, and the Shoshone.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • Bayou La Fourche, from the Mississippi River to the Gulf, 100 180

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • They farmed at first about seven miles out from Little Rock, below Fourche Dam on the Fletcher place.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration

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