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Little Colorado

noun

  1. a river flowing NW from E Arizona to the E edge of the Grand Canyon, where it flows into the Colorado River. 315 miles (507 km) long.


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Garces found his way down to the Little Colorado by means of a side canyon and got out again on the other side in the same way.

I here found plenty of water in the Little Colorado River to irrigate all the cultivated lands and to run to the grist mill.

The 25th found him at Woodruff, a small town on the Little Colorado, that had been named in his honor.

Glazed pottery was found by the writer in 1896 in ruins on the Little Colorado.

At the point where the army struck the Little Colorado River, the stream was quite wide and of sufficient depth for navigation.

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