Frenchman River
| Frenchman River | |
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Frenchman River Valley | |
The Milk River highlighted | |
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| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Cypress Lake |
| • location | Cypress Hills |
| • coordinates | 49°28′35″N 109°23′43″W / 49.47641°N 109.39518°W |
| • elevation | 975 meters (3,199 ft) |
| Mouth | Milk River |
• location | Saco, Montana |
• coordinates | 48°31′02″N 107°15′05″W / 48.517351°N 107.251295°W |
• elevation | 665 meters (2,182 ft) |
| Length | 341 kilometers (212 mi) |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Missouri River |
The Frenchman River, (Gros Ventre: níhʔɔɔtóóúníícááh, lit. 'white person river'), also known locally as the Whitemud River, is a river in Saskatchewan, Canada and Montana, United States. It is a tributary of the Milk River, itself a tributary of the Missouri and, in turn, part of the Mississippi River watershed, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.
The river is approximately 341 kilometers (212 mi) long.
The name's origin is uncertain although both Métis and francophone settlers inhabited its banks at the turn of the 20th century. The Frenchman Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, was named for the river.