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Definition of Pecos
1. Noun. A tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas.
Group relationships: Land Of Enchantment, New Mexico, Nm, Lone-star State, Texas, Tx
Generic synonyms: River
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pecos
Literary usage of Pecos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Henshaw and Mr. EW Nelson spent three months in New Mexico, on the Upper Pecos
River which cuts through the southern end of the Rocky Mountains between the ..."
2. Records of the Past by Records of the Past Exploration Society (1905)
"Pecos practically held its own up to the end of the XVII Century. ... In 1840
the last steps were taken by which Pecos was abandoned and the group as a ..."
3. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"The Trans-Pecos ranges do not have that continuity which marks the main mountain
ranges of the Pacific Cordillera. They exhibit a great variety of slopes ..."
4. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1918)
"THE Pecos QUEEN WHERE the Pecos River winds and turns in its journey to the sea,
From its white walls of sand and rock striving ever to be free, ..."
5. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by United States Department of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frederic Girard, Timothy Abbott Conrad, George Engelmann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, Arthur Carl Victor Schott, John Torrey (1859)
"There is but little growth until the approach to the mouth of the Pecos ...
Soft-shell turtle Junction of the Rio Bravo del Norte and the Pecos. abound. ..."
6. Through Our Unknown Southwest: The Wonderland of the United States-- Little by Agnes Christina Laut (1913)
"Yet when I went into the Pecos National Forest, I put on the heaviest ... and at
the headwaters of the Pecos, you are between 10000 and 13000 feet high, ..."
7. Spanish Mission Churches of New Mexico by Le Baron Bradford Prince (1915)
"CHAPTER XXIX Pecos If the question should be asked, "What was the largest town
in the present United States four hundred years ago? ..."
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