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Arapahoe Indians,
One of the five tribes constituting the Blackfeet confederacy, residing near the headwaters of the Arkansas and Platte rivers.
They were great hunters, and fifty years age numbered 10,000 souls.
With the disappearance of the buffalo they have rapidly decreased.
In 1900 one branch, numbering 1.011, was located in Oklahoma, and a second, numbering 829, in Wyoming.
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Bad lands, the.
Mauvaises Terres, of the old French fur-traders' dialect, are an extensive tract in the Dakotas, Wyoming, and northwestern Nebraska, between the North Fork of the Platte and the South Fork of the Cheyene rivers, west, south, and southeast of the Black Hills.
It lies mostly between long.
103° and 105° N., with an area as yet not perfectly defined, but estimated to cover about 60,000 square miles.
There are similar lands in the Green River region, of which Fort Bridger is the centre, and in southeastern Oregon.
They belong to the Miocence period, geologically speaking.
The surface materials are for the most part white and yellowish indurated clays, sands, marls, and occasional thin beds of lime and sandstone.
The locality is fitly described as one of the most wonderful regions of the globe.
It is held by geologists that during the geological period named a vast fresh-water lake system covered this portion of our continent, when the comparatively soft material
Black Hills,
A group of mountains situated chiefly in South Dakota and the northwestern part of Wyoming.
Several of the peaks reach an altitude of from 2.000 to 3,000 feet above the surrounding plain, and the highest summit of all is Mount Harney, which is 7,400 feet. In 1875 the Dakota Indians ceded the region to the United States, and immediately a valuable mining industry sprang up. In 1875-91 the district yielded gold to the value of $45,000.000, and silver to the value of more than $2,000.000. Valuable deposits of tin have also been found on Mount Harney.
For later productions in this region see gold; South Dakota.
Blizzard,
A storm noted for its high wind.
extreme cold, and hard, sharp, fine crystals of snow.
It appears first east of the Rocky Mountains on the plains of Canada, and sweeps into the United States through Wyoming, North Dakota, and Minnesota, but seldom prevails east of the Great Lakes, excepting when the ground has had a long covering of snow.
It is a very dangerous storm, as the fine snow fills the air and prevents any one exposed to it from seeing his way. In the blizzard that occurred in January, 1888, extending from Dakota to Texas. 235 persons perished.
On March 11-14, 1888, a blizzard raged throughout the Eastern States that will long be remembered.
New York and Philadelphia suffered the most severely of all the cities in its path.
At one time the snow-laden wind blew at the rate of 46 miles an hour.
Streets and railroads were blocked, telegraph-wires were blown down, and many lives were lost.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Butler , Benjamin Franklin 1818 -1893 (search)