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Black Hills

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Black Hills
A group of rugged mountains of southwest South Dakota and northeast Wyoming rising to 2,208.8 m (7,242 ft) at Harney Peak. The Black Hills are a major recreational area.
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Noun1.Black HillsBlack Hills - mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore
Coyote State, Mount Rushmore State, SD, South Dakota - a state in north central United States
Equality State, WY, Wyoming - a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east
Mount Rushmore, Mt. Rushmore, Rushmore - a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota; the likenesses of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Roosevelt are carved on it
2.Black Hills - mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming
Coyote State, Mount Rushmore State, SD, South Dakota - a state in north central United States
Equality State, WY, Wyoming - a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east


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It was a prodigious trip, but delightful, of course, through the Rockies and the Black Hills and the mighty sweep of the Great Plains to civilization and the Missouri border - where the railroading began and the delightfulness ended.
The next day arrived a deputation of braves from the Cheyenne or Shienne nation; a broken tribe, cut up, like the Arickaras, by wars with the Sioux, and driven to take refuge among the Black Hills, near the sources of the Cheyenne River, from which they derive their name.
Bleak and black hills lay on every side of them, compensating in some degree for the additional toil of the march by the sense of security they imparted.
 
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