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Colorado River   /kˌɑlərˈɑdoʊ rˈɪvər/   Listen
Colorado River

noun
1.
A river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico.  Synonym: Colorado.
2.
An important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States.  Synonym: Colorado.



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"Colorado River" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a stagnant sea, now shrunk to its final pool in Salt Lake, but once in size a rival of the Mediterranean. We pass over an alternation of mountain-grades and sandy levels, cross the Green or Upper Colorado River, stop for five minutes at the Fort-Bridger station, thread the sinuous galleries of the Wahsatch, and come down from a savage wilderness of sage-brush, granite, and red sandstone, into the luxuriant green pastures of Mormondom, heavy ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various

... Imperial Valley seems to me like a magic spot of the tropics, some land of fable. Richer than the valley of the Nile it has lain here beneath the sea level for thousands of years, dead under the breath of the desert, until a little trickle of water was turned in from the Colorado River, and then it swiftly put forth such luxuriant wealth of food and clothes and fruit and flowers that its story sounds like the demented dreams of ...
— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby

... in the Grand CaƱon of the Colorado River; his hiding-place was three miles from any possible pass, and he kept a faithful adherent constantly on guard. When any one was seen approaching the pass, Lee was immediately signalled and forthwith repaired to a cave, where he remained ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

... new crop of bids for the Intelligencer's reward to the developer of a saving agent. From suggested emigrations to Mars and giant magnifying glasses set up to wither the grass with the aid of the sun, they ranged to projects for cutting a canal clear around the weed from San Francisco Bay to the Colorado River and letting the Pacific Ocean do the rest. Another solution envisaged shutting off all light from the grass by means of innumerable radiobeams to interrupt the sun's rays in the hope that with an inability to manufacture chlorophyll an atrophy would set in. Several contestants urged inoculating other ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore



Words linked to "Colorado River" :   NV, AZ, Nevada, Battle Born State, United Mexican States, ut, river, Utah, co, Texas, Mexico, Grand Canyon State, Sagebrush State, TX, Lone-Star State, Colorado River hemp, Beehive State, Mormon State, Silver State, Centennial State, Arizona



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