What is "fourche"

Usage examples of "fourche".

THE LITTLE MISSOURI A week later we crossed the Belle Fourche, sometimes called the North Fork of the Big Cheyenne.

Our route, after skirting the Black Hills, followed up the Belle Fourche a few days, and early in August we crossed over to the Little Missouri River.

The divide between the Belle Fourche and the latter stream was a narrow one, requiring little time to graze across it, and intercepting the Little Missouri somewhere in Montana.

This business between the Crow and the Piegan on the Upper Belle Fourche was damn-all serious, Longarm knew, and his hope was that it could be defused without harm to anyone.

Longarm offered his hand, and the ruddy little preacher, who also happened to be the resident agent in charge of the Upper Belle Fourche Intertribal Agency, took and shook it.

Longarm nodded to the girl--damned nice-looking--and made his way out of the former ranch house, now headquarters for the Upper Belle Fourche Intertribal Agency.

Tall Man had come thundering across during their race, Longarm rode wide around it and splashed into the creek that meandered through the basin where the Upper Belle Fourche Intertribal Agency was laid out.

The crags of the Aiguille Dorees, and some green uplands gave color to the glittering world of ice, and far away towered the white peaks of the Grand Combin and the Weisshorn in a blue cloudless sky, and to the left over the summit of the Grande Fourche she saw the huge embattlements of the Oberland.

Beyond Beulah I passed the larger community of Belle Fourche and then St.