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Loup River

American  
[loop] / lup /

noun

  1. a river in E central Nebraska, flowing E to the Platte River. 68 miles (109 km) long.


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He and his wife later struck a deal to will their 60-acre property on the Loup River to the Pawnee Nation, which had been forcibly moved in the 19th century to a reservation in Oklahoma.

From Washington Post Oct. 21, 2022

The flooded Loup River battered dams, bridges and roads last month, splitting the Twin River Public Schools district in two.

From Washington Times Apr. 15, 2019

In Nebraska, one of the worst states in the country for energy efficiency standards, the CEO of the Loup River Public Power District offered the same basic argument last month.

From Slate Nov. 15, 2012

Loup River in turn got what it wanted, a contract to sell power to Nebraska Power.

From Time Magazine Archive

Long the reunited party left Engineer Cantonment, June 6, 1820, and soon reached the Pawnee villages, situated about 100 miles westward, on the Loup River, a branch of the Platte.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives

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