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American Horse Creek

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

American Horse Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Some say the creek bears the name of American Horse, an Oglala Lakota chief, while others believe the creek derives its name from an incident involving a certain Indian horse thief and his "American horses".

Flows through: United States.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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