Definition of Rock Springs

1. Noun. A town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border.

Generic synonyms: Town
Group relationships: Equality State, Wy, Wyoming

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Springs

Roche
Roche limit
Roche limits
Rochelle
Rochelle powder
Rochelle salt
Rochelle salts
Rocher's sign
Rochester
Rochon prism
Rock
Rock Cornish
Rock Cornish hen
Rock Island
Rock Paper Scissors
Rock Springs (current term)
Rock fever
Rock of Gibraltar
Rockefeller
Rockefeller Republican
Rockefellers
Rocketshipper
Rocketshippers
Rockford
Rockies
Rockingham
Rockingham podocarp
Rockstone
Rockwell
Rockwell Kent

Literary usage of Rock Springs

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

1. The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1877-1945 by Clayton D. Laurie, Ronald H. Cole (1997)
"THE START OF THE Rock Springs ANTI-CHINESE MASSACRE. As depicted in a woodcut engraving in Harper's Weekly. part of the small, previously all-white, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Of these 45 were collected from coal beds in the Rock Springs group, ... The bituminous class includes all the high-grade coal of the Rock Springs group; ..."

3. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1847)
"Rock Springs.—The axis of this scries of mountains is thrown completely out of line by two north-south faults near Rock Springs (see PI . ..."

4. Federal Aid in Domestic Disturbances, 1787-1903 by United States Adjutant-General's Office, Frederick T. Wilson (1903)
"It is difficult to arrive at the exact truth concerning the causes which combined to bring about the attack on the Chinese miners at Rock Springs, Wyo., ..."

5. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1917)
"CHAPTER III LIBRARY AND SUPPLEMENTARY READING BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR USE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF MUNSON Superintendent of Schools, Rock Springs, Wyo. and JH ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"The unconformity is especially marked on the south and west sides of the Rock Springs Dome, where the " Laramie " rests on the Rock Springs coal group, ..."

7. Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889: In which the History of the Attempts to by Terence Vincent Powderly (1889)
"... of workmen in California owing to Chinese competition—Congress acts—The law evaded and violated—Massacre of Chinese at Rock Springs—Foreign and American ..."

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