Wind River
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Wind River may refer to:
One of several rivers in the United States:
Wind River may also refer to:
One of several rivers in the United States:
- Wind River (Wyoming)Wind River (Wyoming)The Wind River is the name applied to the upper reaches of the Bighorn River in Wyoming in the United States. The Wind River is long. The two rivers are sometimes referred to as the Wind/Bighorn.-Course:...
- Wind River (northern Alaska)Wind River (northern Alaska)The Wind River is a river in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a designated National Wild and Scenic River. It arises in the Smith Mountains and flows into the East Fork of the Chandalar River .-See also:...
, a designated National Wild and Scenic River - Wind River (southern Alaska), called in InuitInuitThe Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...
Gui-guok-lok - Wind River (Colorado)
- Wind River (Idaho)
- Wind River (Texas)
- Wind River (Washington)Wind River (Washington)The Wind River is a tributary of the Columbia River, in the U.S. state of Washington. Its entire course is contained in Skamania County, Washington. Crusattes River is an old variant name.-Course:...
- Wind River (Wisconsin)Wind River (Wisconsin)The Wind River is a minor tributary of the Mississippi River in western Wisconsin in the United States. It flows for its entire length in western Pierce County. It rises in the town of Trimbelle and flows southward through the towns of Oak Grove and Diamond Bluff....
Wind River may also refer to:
- Wind River Experimental ForestWind River Experimental ForestThe Wind River Experimental Forest is an ecological and silvicultural research in Stabler, Washington, in the United States. Used as a research site by the U.S. Forest Service beginning in 1908, and functioning as an experimental forest since 1932, it is "known as the cradle of forest research in...
in Washington - Wind River (film), a 1998 WesternWestern (genre)The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
movie starring A. Martinez and Karen Allen - Wind River Indian ReservationWind River Indian ReservationWind River Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation shared by the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes of Native Americans in the central western portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming...
in Wyoming - the Wind River RangeWind River RangeThe Wind River Range , is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in western Wyoming in the United States. The range runs roughly NW-SE for approximately 100 miles . The Continental Divide follows the crest of the range and includes Gannett Peak, which at 13,804 feet , is the highest peak...
of Wyoming (sometimes called "The Wind Rivers") - Wind River SystemsWind River SystemsWind River Systems, Inc. is a company providing embedded systems, development tools for embedded systems, middleware, and other types of software. The company was founded in Berkeley, California in 1981 by Jerry Fiddler and David Wilner. On June 4, 2009, Wind River announced that Intel had bought...
, an embedded systems software company - Wind River (Yukon)Wind River (Yukon)The Wind River is a river in Yukon, part of the Peel River watershed. The river is made up of long sets of Class I and Class II rapids, with virtually no flat water. The river is very wide and braided at parts, and can get very shallow. It lies to the west of the Bonnet Plume and Snake Rivers.The...