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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

Contemporary visitors can experience this windswept territory, due west of Bismarck, from their cars, on bicycle, on horseback, on foot or by canoe or kayak on the Little Missouri River.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2016

They were men of the trade, cowboys who had fought their employers’ battles from the Rio Grande to the Little Missouri.

From The Rustler of Wind River by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

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