no the great basin is not a mountain range
Basin and Range faults
About 150 million years ago, a tectonic plate drifted over from Asia and crashed into the Arctic basin. This movement created the immense pressure necessary to push up the a Brooks range in Alaska.
the great almighty Basin Range, sir de nicholas
The Alaska Range is southcentral region of the U.S. State of Alaska.
Much of the western and southwestern US was formed during the Basin and Range expansion period some 25 to 40 million years ago. I could be wrong, but it sort of looks like some punctuation was omitted in the question.
The Alaska Range is in the south central region of the US State of Alaska.
Right about the middle running east and west. Alaska has three major mountain ranges, the Brooks farest north runs east to west, Coastal in southern Alaska and the Alaska range is in between those two.
alaska range or brooks range
The Basin and Range is located west of the Rocky Mountains and east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Cascade Mountains.
mounties
It is in the Jedediah Smith Wilderness Area at the top of Teton Canyon on the west slope of the Teton range. That is in western Wyoming over the mountains from Jackson Hole.