Meanings
- A mountain range in Wyoming.
At the top of Beaver Mountain we saw the Wind River Range stretching white in the distance.
1986, John McPhee, Rising from the Plains; reprinted in Annals of the Former World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, page 2932 more examples
Below the glaciers throughout the entire Wind River Range great numbers of morainal lakes are found.
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 68The river looks terribly immense and powerful, swollen with snow-melt from the western slope of the Rockies and from the Wind River Range in Wyoming, a veritable Mississippi of a river rolling between redrock walls.
1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 153Synonyms: Wind River Mountains
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA mountain range in Wyoming.
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