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Great Falls

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Great Falls
A city of central Montana on the Missouri River north-northeast of Helena. At the center of extensive hydroelectric power installations, Great Falls is popularly known as "Electric City." Population: 56,000.
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Noun1.Great FallsGreat Falls - a town in central Montana on the Missouri river; a center of extensive hydroelectric power
Montana, Treasure State, MT - a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border
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There were similar fortifications on Lake Ontario, and near the great Falls of Niagara, and at the sources of the Ohio River.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Lord, man, if you should once get fairly beset by a brood of grizzly bears, as happened to Hector and I, at the great falls of the Miss--Ah, here comes the tail of the herd, and yonder goes a pack of hungry wolves, ready to pick up the sick, or such as get a disjointed neck by a tumble.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Between five and six next morning, we arrived at Buffalo, where we breakfasted; and being too near the Great Falls to wait patiently anywhere else, we set off by the train, the same morning at nine o'clock, to Niagara.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
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