Black Hills

plural noun

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

Black Hills

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)

Black Hills

1. Mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming .

Notes

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.

Example Sentences

Beyond the black hills an amber west passed into pale green, and then to a deep blue in which a great star hung.

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They are all gone, and the war dances are on in every valley from the Black Hills to the Powder.

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Struck our tents this morning and started on the Black Hills road.

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The thunder was rumbling far over toward the now invisible crest of the Black Hills of Wyoming.

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We crossed several beautiful streams flowing from the Black hills; they are lined with timber.

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