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Little Missouri

American  

noun

  1. a river in the NW United States, rising in NE Wyoming and flowing NE into the Missouri through N Dakota. 560 miles (900 km) long.


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In 2010, there were 20 deaths after the Little Missouri River flooded and inundated most of Arkansas’ Albert Pike Recreation Area, the weather service said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025

This Little Missouri river community has happily eschewed fast-food franchises and strip-malls: there are Old West saloons that stay open until 2am for whiskey drinkers, wooded-plank sidewalks, and mini-golf for kids.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2018

A containment band has been set up in the Ash Coulee Creek, where the rest of the oil migrated, to keep it from entering the Little Missouri River.

From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2016

We circled around the southern end of the basin above Dickinson, then flew west and north above the willows in the ravines and coulees of the Little Missouri River.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2013

This was done with skill and precision, but differed in no way from the work I used formerly to see and take part in on the Little Missouri.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt

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