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Wood River

American  

noun

  1. a city in SW Illinois.


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The place: Scheduled to open in October in downtown Ketchum—the gateway to Sun Valley Resort—this 73-room property sits near the Big Wood River and Silver Creek, two blue-chip destinations for anglers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

That means the amount of water flowing through the Big Wood River becomes too shallow and warm to support trout.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2021

“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

Well, let’s be off, for now I see the wind is with us, and it’s even more than William Clark started with when his three boats left the Wood River and started up the Missouri.

From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough

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