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Little Rocky Mountains, Montana
February 2000 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD
The Little Rocky Mountains are a group of wooded hills, 10 miles long and 8 miles wide, which form an island in the Great Plains of north-central Montana. They rise to 5,708 feet, 2,000 feet above the surrounding plains.
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