Mount Rushmore State

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Mount Rushmore State - a state in north central United States Coyote State, SD, South Dakota Bad Lands, Badlands - an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska Badlands National Park - a national park in South Dakota having multicolored peaks and spires resulting from erosion; fossil sites Wind Cave National Park - a national park in South Dakota featuring bison herds and limestone caverns U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 Dakota - the area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota Aberdeen - a town in northeastern South Dakota capital of South Dakota, Pierre - capital of the state of South Dakota; located in central South Dakota on the Missouri river Rapid City - a town in southwestern South Dakota in the eastern part of the Black Hills Sioux Falls - largest city in South Dakota; located in southeastern South Dakota Black Hills - mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming Big Sioux River - a river that rises in northeastern South Dakota and flows southward to join the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa Black 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 James River, James - a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri Little Missouri, Little Missouri River - a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota Moreau River - a river that rises in western South Dakota and flows eastward to the Missouri River 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