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Little Missouri   /lˈɪtəl məzˈʊri/   Listen
Little Missouri

noun
1.
A river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota.  Synonym: Little Missouri River.






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"Little Missouri" Quotes from Famous Books



... River, two hundred and eighty miles, over the table-land known as the Plateau du Coteau du Missouri, where a road may be constructed with as much facility and as little expense as in the State of Illinois. Crossing the Missouri, the line strikes directly west to the Little Missouri,—the Wah-Pa-Chan-Shoka,—the heavy-timbered river of the Indians, one hundred and thirty miles. This river runs north, and enters the Missouri near its northern bend. Seventy miles farther carries ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various

... Lands the Little Missouri comes in long windings, white, from a distance, as a frozen river between the ash-gray hills. At its margin there are willows; on the small forelands, which flood in June when the mountain waters ...
— The Duke Of Chimney Butte • G. W. Ogden

... out on horseback, travelling swiftly southwest and along the valley of the Little Missouri toward the Black Hills. Here their course turned sharply west toward the Powder River country, past the southern bounds of the Yellowstone. For three weeks they saw no sign of human existence. Deer and antelope bounded over the parched alkali uplands. Prairie dogs perched on top of their ...
— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut



Words linked to "Little Missouri" :   South Dakota, WY, Wyoming, river, SD, North Dakota, Montana, Coyote State, Mount Rushmore State, Peace Garden State, mt, nd, Treasure State, Equality State



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