South Pass

noun

1. a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.

Example Sentences

The South Pass has an altitude of seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine feet.

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The buffalo seldom range beyond the South Pass, and never west of Green river.

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August 8, 1842, he reached the South Pass, and then the unexplored was before him—untrodden ground.

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We went through the South Pass, which is hardly deserving the name of a pass, being nothing but a valley between hills.

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It was then discovered that the emigrants represented two parties, one of which also decided to go by the South Pass.

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