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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 150 km (90 mi) long, rising in the Bighorn Mountains of northern Wyoming and flowing north to the Bighorn River in southern Montana. Lakota and Cheyenne warriors defeated the forces of Gen. George A. Custer in the Little Bighorn Valley on June 25, 1876.
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- noun a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand
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Examples
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But each of those visits—to the forecastle of the whaleship Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport, to a graveyard overlooking the town of Plymouth, Mass., to a dusty ravine leading to the Little Bighorn River—has provided at least one unexpected detail the tinier and quirkier the better that helped to bring the place to life on the page.
Conjuring Up a Sense of Place Nathaniel Philbrick 2011
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The battlefield on the Little Bighorn River, Montana, is where George Armstrong Custer led his foolhardy attack on a village of Lakota Indians in 1876.
A Visionary Act 2006
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On June 16, Crook encountered a large number of well-armed and well-organized Native Americans on the Rosebud Creek, a drainage just to the east of the Little Bighorn River in southern Montana.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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On June 16, Crook encountered a large number of well-armed and well-organized Native Americans on the Rosebud Creek, a drainage just to the east of the Little Bighorn River in southern Montana.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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On June 16, Crook encountered a large number of well-armed and well-organized Native Americans on the Rosebud Creek, a drainage just to the east of the Little Bighorn River in southern Montana.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The sun shone on the hills, burnishing the green and beige with touches of silver before melting into the waters of the Little Bighorn River.
The Killing Kind John Connolly 2002
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On June 16, Crook encountered a large number of well-armed and well-organized Native Americans on the Rosebud Creek, a drainage just to the east of the Little Bighorn River in southern Montana.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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I highballed the pickup all the way from the Little Bighorn River to Missoula, with stops only for gas and hamburgers in between.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986
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Seventh Cavalry, numbering 204 in all, in an attack upon the main camp of the hostile Sioux and Cheyenne, on the Little Bighorn River in southeastern Montana.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Flood waters in hard-hit southeastern Montana have receded enough for Crow reservation residents to return to find dozens of homes damaged by the flooded Little Bighorn River.
The Seattle Times 2011
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