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Arkansas River

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What does Arkansas River mean?

noun

  1. a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River

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On the right rose the lower spurs of the mountainous mass which extends southward to the sources of the Arkansas River, one of the great tributaries of the Missouri.
Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty DaysTranslated by George M. (George Makepeace) TowleProject Gutenberg ebook #103
My friend, Gen. W. H. Walker, of Virginia, had an experience in the early '50's with buffaloes on the upper Arkansas River, which gives some idea of their enormous numbers at that time.
Theodore RooseveltHunting the Grisly and Other Sketches An Account of the Big Game of the United States and its Chase with Horse, Hound, and RifleProject Gutenberg ebook #3337
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I have seen the ice in the Mississippi floating past the mouth of the Arkansas river; and at Memphis, but a little way above, the Mississippi has been frozen over, from bank to bank.
Mark TwainFollowing the Equator: A Journey Around the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #2895