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Definition of Platte

1. Noun. A river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Platte

Literary usage of Platte

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Platte, plat, a river which rises in the Rocky Mountains, formed by the junction of two streams called the North and South Forks of the Platte. ..."

2. The Bozeman Trail: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes by Grace Raymond Hebard, Earl Alonzo Brininstool (1922)
"In the second place, there was the Oregon Trail, following the Platte, the North Platte, and the Sweetwater Rivers, by the forts of Kearney (Nebraska), ..."

3. The Bozeman Trail: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes by Grace Raymond Hebard, Earl Alonzo Brininstool (1922)
"In the second place, there was the Oregon Trail, following the Platte, the North Platte, and the Sweetwater Rivers, by the forts of Kearney (Nebraska), ..."

4. Quaint and Historic Forts of North America by John Martin Hammond (1915)
"AT THE FORKS OF THE Platte RIVER—WYOMING NE of the most famous of the western Indian forts of the United States is situated on the west bank of the Laramie ..."

5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"Camp on the river Platte, at the fording plate oj the Pawnee Indians, ... Camp on the Platte, thirty-two miles below the point where it issues from the ..."

6. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... through which the Platte issues from the mountains. A little to the south is a commanding eminence, from which the view of the chasm was taken.1" [188] ..."

7. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"We came to the shallow, yellow, muddy South Platte, with its low banks and ... The Platte was "up," they said—which made me wish I could see it when it was ..."

8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Platte, plat, a river which rises in the Rocky Mountains, formed by the junction of two streams called the North and South Forks of the Platte. ..."

9. The Bozeman Trail: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes by Grace Raymond Hebard, Earl Alonzo Brininstool (1922)
"In the second place, there was the Oregon Trail, following the Platte, the North Platte, and the Sweetwater Rivers, by the forts of Kearney (Nebraska), ..."

10. The Bozeman Trail: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes by Grace Raymond Hebard, Earl Alonzo Brininstool (1922)
"In the second place, there was the Oregon Trail, following the Platte, the North Platte, and the Sweetwater Rivers, by the forts of Kearney (Nebraska), ..."

11. Quaint and Historic Forts of North America by John Martin Hammond (1915)
"AT THE FORKS OF THE Platte RIVER—WYOMING NE of the most famous of the western Indian forts of the United States is situated on the west bank of the Laramie ..."

12. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"Camp on the river Platte, at the fording plate oj the Pawnee Indians, ... Camp on the Platte, thirty-two miles below the point where it issues from the ..."

13. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... through which the Platte issues from the mountains. A little to the south is a commanding eminence, from which the view of the chasm was taken.1" [188] ..."

14. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"We came to the shallow, yellow, muddy South Platte, with its low banks and ... The Platte was "up," they said—which made me wish I could see it when it was ..."

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