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Cheyenne

noun

The capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state. Synonym: capital of Wyoming.

The Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne.

A member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana).

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Etymology of 'Cheyenne'

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"Cheyenne" Quotes from Famous Books

... we are sitting under a low tree buried up to our shoulders in a luxuriant growth of weeds. Before us towers beautiful Cheyenne, its wonderful red rocks gorgeous in the morning sun; above us stretches the violet-blue sky, while all about us, filling our lungs, and bracing and invigorating our whole being, is the glorious mountain air of Colorado. Outside our shady nook the sunshine ...

— Upon The Tree-Tops • Olive Thorne Miller

... McCrea. "He brought the first passengers up to Argenta in eighty-seven. He was freight conductor on the U.P. when I was a boy at Cheyenne. We'll nab him ...

— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King

... guides and interpreters. Of all these the principal one, the one who best knew the country, was Ben Clark, a young man who had lived with the Cheyennes during much of his boyhood, and who not only had a pretty good knowledge of the country, but also spoke fluently the Cheyenne and Arapahoe dialects, and was an adept in ...

— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. II., Part 6 • P. H. Sheridan

... the art of managing women," said Mrs. Dwyer. "Dear me, how well I remember Randolph! I would have followed him to—to Cheyenne." ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... Augur, and Terry of the regular army of the United States. Yet these officers united in a report rendered to the President on the 7th of January, 1868, in which they use the following language in reference to the "Chivvington massacre" and the Cheyenne war ...

— The Indian Question (1874) • Francis A. Walker

Words linked to "Cheyenne" : Algonquin, state capital, Equality State, Algonquian, capital of Wyoming, Algonquian language, Wyoming, Buffalo Indian, WY, Plains Indian