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".
References
Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Eureka County, Nevada
Mountain ranges of Lander County, Nevada
Range, Shoshone
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