Wind River

English

Proper noun

Wind River

1. A river in the Yukon, Canada
2. a number of rivers in the United States
   1. A tributary of the East Fork Chandalar River in Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
      • 1990, Debbie S. Miller, Midnight Wilderness: Journeys in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, →ISBN, page 138:

        This route will follow the Ivishak to its headwaters, cross the divide through a 5,700-foot saddle nestled between 7,000- to 8,000-foot rugged mountains, then follow the Wind River drainage south.

   2. A tributary of Aspen Brook in Larimer County, Colorado
   3. A tributary of Agency Creek in Yamhill County, Oregon
   4. A tributary of the Columbia River in Skamania County, Washington
   5. A tributary of the Mississippi River in Pierce County, Wisconsin
   6. A river, the upper reaches of the Bighorn River in Wyoming
      • 1986, John McPhee, Rising from the Plains; reprinted in Annals of the Former World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, page 298:

        The Green River has cut down through the Uinta Mountains in the last few million years, the Wind River through the Owl Creek Mountains, the Laramie River through the Laramie Range.

Derived terms

• Wind River Arboretum
• Wind River Basin
• Wind River Canyon
• Wind River Experimental Forest
• Wind River Formation
• Wind River Glacier
• Wind River Indian Reservation
• Wind River meridian
• Wind River Mountains
• Wind River Pass
• Wind River Peak
• Wind River Range
• Wind River Tribal College