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The Medicine Bow Mountains are a Mountain Range in the Rocky Mountains in southern Wyoming and in northern Colorado . From the northern end of the Front Range , the range extends north from Cameron Pass along the border between Larimer and Jackson counties in Colorado northward into south central Wyoming west of Laramie , in Albany and Carbon counties to the route of the Union Pacific Railroad . The highest peak in the range is Medicine Bow Peak (12,013 ft), located in the northern end of the range in southwestern Albany County, Wyoming . Much of the range is located within the Medicine Bow National Forest . The range runs northward from the Never Summer Mountains on the Continental Divide . The range is drained along is western flank by the Michigan and Canadian rivers, tributaries of the North Platte in North Park . On its eastern flank it is drained by the Laramie River , another tributary of the North Platte. In Wyoming this range is known as the Snowy Range. This mountain range is also home to some of the remains of a Douglas DC-4 aircraft, operated under United Airlines Flight 409 . The aircraft crashed into Medicine Bow Peak on October 6 1955 , killing all 66 people on board (63 passengers, 3 crew members.) SEE ALSO
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