Medicine Bow River

[ boh ]

1. a river in S Wyoming, flowing N and W to the North Platte River. 195 miles (314 km) long.

Example Sentences

After while we broke camp and went up the medicine bow river; to the North Platte; and here set our traps.

From Project Gutenberg

In the desert section near Medicine Bow River, Wyoming, he found what seemed to be a number of dark-brown bowlders.

From Project Gutenberg

We encamped at evening on the principal fork of Medicine Bow river, near to an isolated mountain called the Medicine Butte, which appeared to be about 1,800 feet above the plain, from which it rises abruptly, and was still white, nearly to its base, with a great quantity of snow.

From Project Gutenberg

At present there are perhaps thirty head on Sheep Mountain, twenty-two miles west of Laramie, Wyo.; on the west side of Laramie Peak there are perhaps twenty head; on the east side of the Peak twelve to fifteen head, and near the Platte Canon, at the head of Medicine Bow River, there are fifteen.

From Project Gutenberg

The prisoners were hurried off to one of the remote fastnesses of the Sioux up in the mountains, in the vicinity of Medicine Bow River, where, as was the custom of the Indians, they intended to sacrifice their prisoners by the worst methods of torture as ingeniously cruel as they could possibly make it.

From Project Gutenberg