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Shoshone Dam

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noun

  1. a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.


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The most important of these undertakings were the Roosevelt Dam, the Shoshone Dam, and the Truckee-Carson Canal.

From History of the United States, Volume 6 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin

The Shoshone Dam in Wyoming impounds sufficient water to27 irrigate one hundred and fifty thousand acres in the valley below.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

Wyoming Park wagon road, showing wonderful tunnelling work on the new wagon road from Cody, Wyo., to the National Park via the Shoshone Dam.

From History of the United States, Volume 6 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin

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