Black Hills

American  

plural noun

1. a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming. Highest peak, Harney Peak, 7,242 feet (2,205 meters).

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Black Hills British  

plural noun

1. a group of mountains in W South Dakota and NE Wyoming: famous for the gigantic sculptures of US presidents on the side of Mount Rushmore. Highest peak: Harney Peak, 2207 m (7242 ft)

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Black Hills Cultural  

1. Mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming.

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Location of Mount Rushmore.

Sacred to the Sioux. The opening of the Black Hills to settlement by whites in 1874 led to the Battle of Little Bighorn.

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“The value of fossils has changed tremendously,” says Peter Larson, head of the Black Hills Institute who dug up both Sue and Stan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Every August, the energy shifts as the massive Sturgis Motorcycle Rally sweeps through the Black Hills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

He struck on an idea to carve representations of the American West into the granite pinnacles of the Central Black Hills: The Lakota leader Red Cloud, Lewis and Clark, George Armstrong Custer.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025

In August 1924, South Dakota state historian Doane Robinson asked Borglum whether he would be interested in carving a “heroic” sculpture in the Black Hills.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025

The Black Hills were in the western part of the state.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III