For those of you who need some backgrounding, this section of the South Platte is one of the most famous trout fisheries in the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Deckers Back?] Reference

Greeley with irrigation, falls into the Platte, which is an affluent of the Missouri.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

And indeed Burleigh's face when he came forth to start for the Platte was a gruesome sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wounded Name] Reference

But all this is of little moment, for if the Platte is a nothing river, it can survive with a nothing name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centennial]

Mountains, and after supplying Greeley with irrigation, falls into the Platte, which is an affluent of the Missouri.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

The Platte is a long and powerful stream, pouring in from the Rocky Mountains and joining with the Missouri at this place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians] Reference

(UK) ( "Platte") would be taking over MBS so the OFT obtained identical undertakings from Platte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Hugh was already talking about a river in Colorado called the Platte and panning float gold as big as elk’s teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [TWO FOR TEXAS] Reference

We traveled three weeks till we came to the Platte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference

Here flowed the grand old Platte -- a wide, shallow stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of California] Reference

Morrow's at the junction of the north and south Platte, Fort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events] Reference

The only road you have a right to travel is the Platte road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference

Platte, and arranged to meet them all the next spring, 1868.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The Sioux joined these war parties that went to Platte river.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference

For a hole was dug and they thrown in along the miserable Platte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference

Platte, -- whose mysterious middle-life, under the new name of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference

Godfrey's ranch on the Platte, where the writer's horse and a beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference

Creek, midway between the Platte and Deadwood, in the very heart of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference

I saw on the North Platte trees cut down by beaver which were four feet in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference

You know that they did go on board the "Platte Valley" and drink with some of our officers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

Well, Gid and me, we was pals years and years ago, trapping up on the head waters of the Platte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiddie the Scout] Reference

"Traveling alone to the Platte valley," continues the stranger, "they'll lose their hair, sure.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Platte, Nebraska, the old home of Colonel William Cody, known all over the world as "Buffalo Bill.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference

Platte and Arkansas; and thence skirting the bluffs a distance of about one hundred miles to Denver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

Platte, Yellowstone and Arkansas Rivers would render fertile an area equal to that of some eastern states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference

The peaceful little creek ahead looked as angry as the Platte in April water, and the bottoms were a lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

Many other rivers were discovered flowing from the western mountains, but with the exception of the Platte and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

While on the south fork of the Platte, two of the party deserted, taking with them three of their best animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference

They have both been killed by the Dakotas; we have none left among us who heard the talk at the treaty on the Platte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference

I don't know about the gun-boat, but I saw some of them on board the "Platte Valley," after I had been carried on her.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

About the middle of April he left his hunting-grounds, and on the 24th appeared on the north bank of Platte, opposite Fort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference

Nebraska route will be more monotonous, running across the level and treeless valley of the Platte for three hundred miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

Yet this tree has crept across the continent, and is found here and there in a northwesterly direction between the Platte and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889] Reference

The shallow rivers, like the Platte, which wander through them, are too far apart to be used economically for their general irrigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

The Union Pacific railroad had then reached Julesburg and I conceived the hazardous idea of reaching that point by navigating the Platte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events] Reference