- a variation of Arapaho.
Arapahoe
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Then make for Arapahoe Basin, one of the best-value resorts in the area, just a little over an hour away from the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
The boy was riding a motorized “pocket bike” north on Arapahoe Street around 1:30 a.m. when he lost control and skidded into the intersection with Olympic Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
Growing up in Colorado, my indoctrination into the beating heart of skiing happened at Arapahoe Basin.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2023
Real ashes won’t solidify and would stay brittle, said Faith Haug, who chairs the mortuary science program at Colorado’s Arapahoe Community College.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
As a pigtailed child, Joella had once ditched school to compete in, and win, a horse race against legendary Arapahoe riders.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
With unemployment on the reservation at 70 percent, the leases represent needed income for some of the 3,500 Eastern Shoshones and 9,600 Northern Arapahoes, he said.
From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2011
While eager immigrants pressed through to the golden mountains, more & more tarried in Denver, settled there, fought the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, grasshoppers and one another.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Indians agreed, moved and thereafter aided U. S. soldiers in campaigns against such hostile tribes as the Sioux, Arapahoes and Cheyennes.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few years later for reasons now unknown the conquered Arapahoes were given U. S. military escort to the Shoshone lands, protected in their occupancy of a million acres.
From Time Magazine Archive
A slight swell in the plain, which we were at that moment crossing, gave me a view of the retreating Arapahoes.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
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