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Wind River

American  
[wind] / wɪnd /

noun

  1. a river in W central Wyoming, flowing SE and joining the Popo Agie River to form the Bighorn River. 120 miles (193 km) long.


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Such deaths have been increasingly common in the Green River headwaters in the Wind River Range, where in 2019 the U.S.

From Washington Times • May 26, 2023

"I also saw another one out in Wyoming that was part of the Wind River Range," Gilman recalled excitedly.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

Two U.N. security officers converged on 29-year-old Big Wind, a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe who lives on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and hustled the protester away from the U.S. pavilion.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2022

They’re from a mule deer hit by a car just down the road from Bales’ rustic home in a cottonwood grove beneath the craggy Wind River Range.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2022

Wind River Shoshone informants speak little of activities west of the Continental Divide and tend to place their early economic life almost entirely in the Missouri drainage.

From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Murphy, Robert F.