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Wood River

American  

noun

  1. a city in SW Illinois.


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But for one week in July, some of them converge on a single 100-foot-wide asphalt runway beside the jagged hills of Idaho’s Wood River Valley.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022

With the dam gates shut, the flows on the Richfield Canal and Big Wood River are “functionally de-watered,” officials with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2021

He grew up in Wood River and was the Cornhuskers’ quarterback in 1996-97.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2020

“I love exploring the state I grew up in, the state I continue to call home,” Shannon Cook of Wood River, Nebraska, wrote at nebraskapassport.com.

From Washington Times • Nov. 4, 2019

The explorers, shut out of Spanish territory, recrossed the Mississippi and wintered at the mouth of Wood River, just above St. Louis, on the eastern side of the great river, in United States territory.

From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Brooks, Noah

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