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Wasatch Hollow (Salt Lake City)
The Wasatch Range or Wasatch Mountains is a mountain range in the western United States. Wasatch may also refer to: Places * Wasatch Back, a region in northern Utah that is immediately east of the Wasatch Range * Wasatch County, Utah, a county in north central Utah * Wasatch Front, a region in northern Utah that is immediately west of the Wasatch Range * Wasatch National Forest, a former National Forest in northern Utah ** Wasatch-Cache National Forest or Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, combined National Forest * Wasatch Formation, a geologic formation in Wyoming * Wasatch Mountain (Colorado), a summit near Telluride, Colorado * Wasatch Plateau, a plateau in central Utah, part of the Colorado Plateau * Wahsatch, Utah, a ghost town in Summit County, Utah Other uses * ''Wasatch Wave'', a weekly newspaper in Heber City, Utah, started in 1889 * Wasatch Academy a boarding school in Mount Pleasant, Utah * Aviation call sign for the former Morris Air Service See also * Wasat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasatch Range
The Wasatch Range ( ) or Wasatch Mountains is a mountain range in the western United States that runs about from the Utah-Idaho border south to central Utah. It is the western edge of the greater Rocky Mountains, and the eastern edge of the Great Basin region.''Hiking the Wasatch'', John Veranth, 1988, Salt Lake City, The northern extension of the Wasatch Range, the Bear River Mountains, extends just into Idaho, constituting all of the Wasatch Range in that state. In the language of the native Ute people, Wasatch means "mountain pass" or "low pass over high range." According to William Bright, the mountains were named for a Shoshoni leader who was named with the Shoshoni term ''wasattsi'', meaning "blue heron". In 1926, Cecil Alter quoted Henry Gannett from 1902, who said that the word meant "land of many waters," then posited, "the word is a common one among the Shoshones, and is given to a berry basket" carried by women. Overview Since the earliest days of European sett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
