Bill Williams River

English

Etymology

Named for mountain man Old Bill Williams.

Proper noun

Bill Williams River

1. A tributary of the Colorado River in Arizona, United States
   • 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:

     Four hundred miles above its mouth and more than two hundred miles above the Gila, the Colorado has a second tributary—“Bill Williams’ River” it is called by excessive courtesy. It is but a muddy creek.