The Hoback River, once called the Fall River, is an approximately -long tributary of the

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in the

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. It

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in the northern Wyoming Range of Wyoming and flows northeast, northwest, and then west through the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Its largest tributary is its South Fork, which joins the Hoback about nine miles downstream of its head as it turns northeast and continues to

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. It then turns northwest, where it spreads onto a large marshy flat in a braided floodplain once known as Jackson's Little Hole, but now referred to as the "Hoback Basin" in which lies the town of Bondurant. It then heads west, entering the steep, narrow Hoback Canyon from which it emerges to join the Snake about south of

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, just upstream of head of the Snake River Canyon near the town of Hoback. The entire length of the Hoback is free flowing and unobstructed by dams. About downstream from the confluence with the Hoback River, the Snake River crosses into the state of

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and is impounded by

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. The river is named after John Hoback, an explorer who traveled with the

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from the Snake River, using the Hoback River as a passage to the

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, a tributary of the

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{{authority control Rivers of Wyoming Tributaries of the Snake River Rivers of Teton County, Wyoming Wild and Scenic Rivers of the United States

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