Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 249 km (155 mi) long, of central California rising near Mount Lyell and flowing generally westward to the San Joaquin River.
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Examples
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Other notable canyons in the park are the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River and the Tenaya Canyon.
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So after I flew home from Iraq, my daughter Ashley and I set off to go camping on the Tuolumne River with dollar signs in our eyes.
Camping near Yosemite in the freezing rain while looking for gold: One Love, Part 2 2008
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In a rare accident, a professional river guide, 33-year-old Greg Mally, was thrown from his boat and killed on his way down the Tuolumne River, near Yellowstone, on June 8.
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By the way, the Tuolumne River is near Yosemite, not, as you wrote, near Yellowstone.
Element Of Danger 2008
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And you can see that water is just rushing and there are tons of rescuers and emergency workers on the scene search for this boy who fell into the Tuolumne River.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): Today it ` s along the Tuolumne River near Modesto.
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The Tuolumne River rushes, with terrible force and speed, in cascades and rapids down the granite stairway which is the floor of this cañon.
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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Sierra summits may still be found those ever-living ice-rivers, the one on Mount Lyell being the source of the Tuolumne River.
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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By December of 1848, thousands of miners were washing for gold all along the foot-hills from the Tuolumne River to the Feather,
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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We move about these streets of San Francisco in cars propelled by electric energy created away yonder on the Tuolumne River in the foothills of the Sierras; we sit at home and read by a light furnished from the same distant source.
The California Birthday Book Various
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