Wind River Range

English

Proper noun

Wind River Range

1. A mountain range in Wyoming
   • 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 68:

     Below the glaciers throughout the entire Wind River Range great numbers of morainal lakes are found.

   • 1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 153:

     The 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.

   • 1986, John McPhee, Rising from the Plains; reprinted in Annals of the Former World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, page 293:

     At the top of Beaver Mountain we saw the Wind River Range stretching white in the distance.

Synonyms

• Wind River Mountains

Further reading

• Category:Wind River Range on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons