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Smoky Hill

American  

noun

  1. a river flowing E from E Colorado to the Republican River in central Kansas. 540 miles (870 km) long.


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Kanopolis Dam on the Smoky Hill, Kortes "Peace," the world had heard, "is indivisible."

From Time Magazine Archive

For about $800, a family of four rides a prairie schooner driven by a hired hand, with stops along the trail to investigate the Smoky Hill River or the surrounding hills.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ike revered an older man, Bob Davis, who taught him how to play poker and how to net fish on the banks of the Smoky Hill River.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beside a bend in the Smoky Hill River, near Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he had satisfied his curiosity, he explained that his companions had come from northern Ohio, and were bound to lay out a town of their own in the Smoky Hill region.

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)

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