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On reaching the second chain, called the Bighorn Mountains, where the river forced its impetuous way through a precipitous defile, with cascades and rapids, the travellers were obliged to leave its banks, and traverse the mountains by a rugged and frightful route, emphatically called the "Bad Pass."
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850
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On reaching the second chain, called the Bighorn Mountains, where the river forced its impetuous way through a precipitous defile, with cascades and rapids, the travellers were obliged to leave its banks, and traverse the mountains by a rugged and frightful route, emphatically called the "Bad Pass."
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On reaching the second chain, called the Bighorn Mountains, where the river forced its impetuous way through a precipitous defile, with cascades and rapids, the travellers were obliged to leave its banks, and traverse the mountains by a rugged and frightful route, emphatically called the "Bad Pass."
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Washington Irving 1821
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A flash flood watch was posted Wednesday for the east side of the Bighorn Mountains and lower elevations of Johnson County because of the threat of rain falling on swollen creeks and streams.
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A flash flood watch was posted Wednesday for the east side of the Bighorn Mountains and lower elevations of Johnson County because of the threat of rain falling on swollen creeks and streams.
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Aint no place like it, the Bighorn Mountains and the High Plains.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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Aint no place like it, the Bighorn Mountains and the High Plains.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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Aint no place like it, the Bighorn Mountains and the High Plains.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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In addition, numerous perennial streams flow off the northern Bighorn Mountains and wet meadows are common in riparian areas.
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The Sedimentary Subalpine Zone ecoregion is found southeast of Yellowstone National Park, in the overthrust belt, and in the northwest corner of the Bighorn Mountains in areas underlain by faulted and folded Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks (limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone).
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