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Great Falls

City in north-central Montana, USA, on the Missouri River, 116 km/72 mi northeast of Helena; seat of Cascade County; population (2000) 56,700. Its main industries are the processing of copper and zinc from nearby mines; the processing of agricultural products and oil-refining is also important. It is the second-largest city of the state, after Billings. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were the first Europeans to discover the waterfalls, in 1805; the Lewis and Clark National Forest is nearby.

The community was laid out in 1882 and incorporated as a city in 1888. The city lies about 16 km/10 mi from the Great Falls of the Missouri, from which it derives its name; the river drops 111 m/364 ft here in the space of 13 km/8 mi and powers a large hydroelectric plant (built in 1891).



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There were similar fortifications on Lake Ontario, and near the great Falls of Niagara, and at the sources of the Ohio River.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Lord, man, if you should once get fairly beset by a brood of grizzly bears, as happened to Hector and I, at the great falls of the Miss--Ah, here comes the tail of the herd, and yonder goes a pack of hungry wolves, ready to pick up the sick, or such as get a disjointed neck by a tumble.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Between five and six next morning, we arrived at Buffalo, where we breakfasted; and being too near the Great Falls to wait patiently anywhere else, we set off by the train, the same morning at nine o'clock, to Niagara.
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