Meanings
- Synonym of Wind River Range.
The Wind River Mountains constitute one of the most imposing ranges of the United States.
1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter III, 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 672 more examples
Some of the higher peaks of the Wind river mountains rise one thousand feet above the limits of perpetual snow.
1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84The peaks of the Wasatch notched the west, the barren Wyoming plateau northward swelled up toward South Pass and the snowy Wind River Mountains. Below their lookout rim was the valley of Henry’s Fork, old trapper country, and the lodge of Jim Baker, a squawman who had established a ranch against the mountain.
1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58Synonyms: Wind River Range
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Wind River Range.
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