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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A group of rugged mountains of southwest South Dakota and northeast Wyoming rising to 2,207 m (7,242 ft) at Harney Peak. The Black Hills are a major recreational area.

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  • noun mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore
  • noun mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming

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Examples

  • The woman, who declined to give her name, said she called Black Hills a second time to report the leak, and the crew returned.

    Dodge City Daily Globe Home RSS 2008

  • Gold [and later, uranium] in the Black Hills was the equivalent of oil in Iraq.

    Tom Hayden: On Avatar 2010

  • However, the only Treaty that should be recognized concerning the Black Hills is the Treaty of 1851.

    The Black Hills Are Everything! 2009

  • The Black Hills are a maturely dissected domal uplift with an exposed core of Precambrian rocks; encircling hogbacks, enclosed hogbacks, and enclosed strike valleys rim the province.

    Black Hills Coniferous Forest Province (Bailey) 2009

  • The Black Hills was their place of birth and therefore a very sacred place.

    Tim Giago: Black Hills on Table Again 2008

  • When I was a boy, I traveled with my uncle to a place called the Black Hills.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • When I was a boy, I traveled with my uncle to a place called the Black Hills.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • When I was a boy, I traveled with my uncle to a place called the Black Hills.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • When I was a boy, I traveled with my uncle to a place called the Black Hills.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • The Black Hills were a rugged place for farmers, away from the trade routes, and harsher now than usual.

    The Path of Daggers Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1998

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