Yampa River
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- A tributary of the Green River in Routt County and Moffat County, Colorado.
- 1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 280:
- At night we encamped in a fine grove of cottonwood trees, on the banks of the Elk Head river, the principal fork of the Yampah river, commonly called by the trappers the Bear river.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter VII, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 163:
- June 17.—We run down to the mouth of Yampa River.
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