The Shoshone Range is a mountain range in Lander County,

Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...

. The northeast end of the range extends into Eureka County at Shoshone Point on the

Humboldt River The Humboldt River is the longest river in the northern and central part of Nevada. It extends in a general east-to-west direction from its headwaters in northern Nevada's Jarbidge Mountains, Jarbidge, Independence Mountains, Independence, and ...

.''Crescent Valley, Nevada,'' 30x60 Minute Quadrangle, USGS, 1987 (40116-A1-TM-100)''Battle Mountain, Nevada,'' 30x60 Minute Quadrangle, USGS, 1988 (40116-E1-TM-100) The range was named from the

Shoshoni language Shoshoni, also written as Shoshoni-Gosiute and Shoshone ( ; Shoshoni: soni ta̲i̲kwappe'', ''newe ta̲i̲kwappe'' or ''neme ta̲i̲kwappeh''), is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, spoken in the Western United States by the Shoshon ...

meaning "grass".

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Mountain ranges of Nevada Mountain ranges of Eureka County, Nevada Mountain ranges of Lander County, Nevada Range, Shoshone {{LanderCountyNV-geo-stub