Meanings
proper noun
- A tributary of the Colorado River in Arizona, United States.
Four hundred miles above its mouth and more than two hundred miles above the Gila, the Colorado has a second tributary—“Bill Williams’ River” it is called by excessive courtesy. It is but a muddy creek.
1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20
Origin
Named for mountain man Old Bill Williams.
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