Teton Range

the Teton Range

1. A mountain range in Wyoming, subrange of the Rocky Mountains.

   Synonym: Tetons

   • 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter 3, 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 68:

     Conspicuous among these from this point of view is the great Teton Range, with its towering façade of storm-carved rocks;

   • 1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 186:

     On that 1872 expedition Holmes made what must be the earliest drawings of the spectacular Teton range, as well as many of the Wind River Mountains and of the Yellowstone.