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
- mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming
How To Use Black Hills In A Sentence
- By this “agreement” the Indians lost the Black Hills, the unceded territory where the buffalo were, and were forced to choose a new home on the Missouri or in Indian Territory. THE AMERICAN WEST
- The Black Hills Playhouse presents musical, comedy and dramatic productions throughout the summer.
- Rock climbers descend the spire of Tricouni Nail in the Needles of South Dakota Black Hills.
- On exposed, rocky, south-facing slopes, particularly in the southern Black Hills, the major species are little bluestem, yucca, sagebrush, sand lily, and various gramas and needlegrasses.
- To us, the long-time sun-dried, thirsty emigrants; covered from head to foot with dust from the Black Hills, overlaid with alkali powder from the Humboldt, veneered with ashes of the desert; all ingrained by weeks of dermatic absorption, rubbed in by the wear of travel, polished by the friction of the wind -- to us said the Truckee, flowing Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method
- The sweepstakes grand prize is a choice between an archeological dig in the Black Hills of South Dakota with a renowned paleontologist, or a trip to Russia for a Mammoth-themed adventure.
- This was the district known as Crater and it looked just like that, in fact a moon landscape was what it reminded me of most, black hills and valleys under a brooding grey sky, and not a leaf or blade of grass to be seen.
- It would therefore be marvelous theater to see Snyder enter a South Dakota Black Hills bar or a Salt River, Arizona, public park and wave the Redskin flag. Bad Sports
- The water around the boat is like molten gold, the black hills ahead of us back lit by yellow-white light and the sky is a rhapsody of fleecy cloud in blue, pink, red, grey and orange.
- The uplift and subsequent erosion of the Black Hills are responsible for the accessibility of South Dakota's abundant and diverse mineral locations.