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The Rockies
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  • Also, to arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context, as pretty scenery.†   (source)
  • Once upon a time, this land was a barren and frightening wilderness whose high rocky mountains sheltered the evil winds and whose barren valleys offered hospitality L: no man.†   (source)
  • "Why, the Rocky Mountains," Augustus said.†   (source)
  • The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance.†   (source)
  • The sunlight is fading but still warm as the president speaks in the open-air dirt arena, the Rocky Mountains towering in the near distance.†   (source)
  • My plane developed engine trouble while I was flying over the Rocky Mountains to the Taggart Tunnel.†   (source)
  • Steep, rocky mountains.†   (source)
  • But black-faced Mount Zion, across the tracks in Texana, North Carolina, was as different as the Rocky Mountains are from the Sahara.†   (source)
  • The Rocky Mountains are too big, too long, too important to have to be imposing.†   (source)
  • Our plan was to curve across the lower part of Wisconsin, veer into Minnesota, and then barrel straight on through Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, sweep up into Montana, and cross the Rocky Mountains into Idaho.   (source)
  • Lynn took advantage of this absence to introduce his sister to every marriageable man he could find this side of the Rockies, but none could make her forget the stem farm boy who ruled over his own mountain.†   (source)
  • I recognized the Rocky Mountains in the distance.†   (source)
  • He …. he's in the Rocky Mountains, searching for …. that is …."†   (source)
  • I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of Rocky Mountains.†   (source)
  • Our cabin was on a ranch near a tiny village deep in the Rocky Mountains.†   (source)
  • He leaned back in the padded leather chair of the Gulfstream II jet as it flew east, toward the Rocky Mountains.†   (source)
  • In a glacier located in the Swiss Alps (or the Rocky Mountains, better, or on Greenland, even better), some explorers have found — embedded in a flow of clear ice — a space vehicle.†   (source)
  • To his right the hill descended into a valley of towering trees that seemed to stretched for miles, ending in a wall of rocky mountains that jutted toward the cloudless blue sky.†   (source)
  • Leo thought of the noises Grandpop would have heard in the Rocky Mountains—the screams of mountain lions and the screeches of owls, gunshots of bandits and murderers.†   (source)
  • Leo would hold it tight in his hand as Papa told tales of Grandpop's adventures—crossing America all alone in a creaky old wagon, almost getting eaten by a giant grizzly in the Rocky Mountains, surviving a forest fire in the Sierras, living in San Francisco when it was just a bunch of rickety houses in the mud.†   (source)
  • The snowstorm that came at the end of January blocked the passes through the Rocky Mountains, raising white walls thirty feet high across the main-line track of Taggart Transcontinental.†   (source)
  • But you did not reach Winston-and by late afternoon, the news was on all the radios that you were lost in a plane crash somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.†   (source)
  • She felt, for the first time, the immensity of the hopelessness of finding him-if he did not choose to be found-in the streets of the city, in the towns of a continent, in the canyons of the Rocky Mountains where the goal was closed by a screen of rays.†   (source)
  • The Taggart Tunnel, an eight-mile bore, cut through the summit of the Rocky Mountains and regarded as an engineering achievement not to be equaled in our time, was built by the grandson of Nathaniel Taggart, in the great age of the clean, smokeless Diesel-electric engine.†   (source)
  • She glanced around her-and for one frightening moment, she thought that it was a quiet summer morning, that she was alone, lost in a region of the Rocky Mountains which no plane should ever venture to approach, and, with the last of her fuel burning away, she was looking for a plane that had never existed, in quest of a destroyer who had vanished as he always vanished; perhaps it was only his vision that had led her here to be destroyed.†   (source)
  • …was herself-it was only a sensation of physical pleasure, but it contained her worship of him, of everything that was his person and his life-from the night of the mass meeting in a factory in Wisconsin, to the Atlantis of a valley hidden in the Rocky Mountains, to the triumphant mockery of the green eyes of the superlative intelligence above a worker's figure at the foot of the tower-it contained her pride in herself and that it should be she whom he had chosen as his mirror, that it…†   (source)
  • This letter of many pages was concerned with events that were happening in Colorado, in a part of the Rocky Mountains very little known.†   (source)
  • The same is true between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific.†   (source)
  • About as near as Newport is to the Rocky Mountains.†   (source)
  • Half way to the Rocky Mountains before a man can fairly strike the line of your flight.†   (source)
  • If all the great plain from the Missouri to the Rocky Mountains had been under glass, and the heat regulated by a thermometer, it could not have been better for the yellow tassels that were ripening and fertilizing the silk day by day.†   (source)
  • An upland prairie country rolled and waved down from snow-capped Rocky Mountains to spread out into the immense eastern void.†   (source)
  • The solitary and arid blades of grass arose from the passing gusts fearfully perceptible; the bold and rocky mountains were too distinct in their barrenness, and the eye even sought relief, in vain, by attempting to pierce the illimitable void of heaven, which was shut to its gaze by the dusky sheet of ragged and driving vapor.†   (source)
  • From this imaginary line to the Rocky Mountains, which bound the valley of the Mississippi on the west, lie immense plains, which are almost entirely covered with sand, incapable of cultivation, or scattered over with masses of granite.†   (source)
  • He was the elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses, whose pastures in those days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies.†   (source)
  • These stones and this sand discover, on examination, a perfect analogy with those which compose the arid and broken summits of the Rocky Mountains.†   (source)
  • At half-past twelve the travellers caught sight for an instant of Fort Halleck, which commands that section; and in a few more hours the Rocky Mountains were crossed.†   (source)
  • Above us, huddled among the brown weeds, there floated objects originating from all over: tree trunks ripped from the Rocky Mountains or the Andes and sent floating down the Amazon or the Mississippi, numerous pieces of wreckage, remnants of keels or undersides, bulwarks staved in and so weighed down with seashells and barnacles, they couldn't rise to the surface of the ocean.†   (source)
  • This may still be the case even if the lands on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains should be found to be unfit for cultivation.†   (source)
  • The whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the immense semi-circular curtain which is formed by the southern portion of the Rocky Mountains, the highest being Laramie Peak.†   (source)
  • Clarke and Cass in their Report of the year 1829; "a few years since they approached the base of the Alleghany; and a few years hence they may even be rare upon the immense plains which extend to the base of the Rocky Mountains."†   (source)
  • Yes; rivers are rare gifts to such as till the ground, as any one may see who journeys far atween the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi.†   (source)
  • At eleven in the morning the train had reached the dividing ridge of the waters at Bridger Pass, seven thousand five hundred and twenty-four feet above the level of the sea, one of the highest points attained by the track in crossing the Rocky Mountains.†   (source)
  • …left bank of the Platte River as far as the junction of its northern branch, follows its southern branch, crosses the Laramie territory and the Wahsatch Mountains, turns the Great Salt Lake, and reaches Salt Lake City, the Mormon capital, plunges into the Tuilla Valley, across the American Desert, Cedar and Humboldt Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and descends, via Sacramento, to the Pacific—its grade, even on the Rocky Mountains, never exceeding one hundred and twelve feet to the mile.†   (source)
  • I warrant me your legs would be a-weary before you had followed its bed into the Rocky Mountains; but then there are seasons when it might be done without wetting a foot.†   (source)
  • This vast territory, however, forms a single valley, one side of which descends gradually from the rounded summits of the Alleghanies, while the other rises in an uninterrupted course towards the tops of the Rocky Mountains.†   (source)
  • The States of the West lie in the remotest parts of a single valley; and all the rivers which intersect their territory rise in the Rocky Mountains or in the Alleghanies, and fall into the Mississippi, which bears them onwards to the Gulf of Mexico.†   (source)
  • "If they will carry the tribe of wandering Ishmael to the Rocky Mountains," said the young bee-hunter, laughing in his vexation with a sort of bitter merriment, "I may forgive the rascals."†   (source)
  • It was in the section included between this range and the Rocky Mountains that the American engineers found the most formidable difficulties in laying the road, and that the government granted a subsidy of forty-eight thousand dollars per mile, instead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains.†   (source)
  • When the Tetons see the sun come from the Rocky Mountains, and move towards the land of the Pale-faces, the mind of Hard-Heart will soften, and his spirit will become Sioux.†   (source)
  • This gradual and continuous progress of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onwards by the hand of God.†   (source)
  • AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION The geological formation of that portion of the American Union, which lies between the Alleghanies and the Rocky Mountains, has given rise to many ingenious theories.†   (source)
  • Will the Pawnees meet the Tetons in council? and when the sun is gone behind the Rocky Mountains, they will say, This is for a Loup and this for a Sioux.†   (source)
  • I should be the happiest fellow between Kentucky and the Rocky Mountains, if I had a snug cabin, near some old wood that was filled with hollow trees, just such a hump every day as that for dinner, a load of fresh straw for hives, and little El—†   (source)
  • The river took its rise near the base of the Rocky Mountains, and, after washing a vast extent of plain, it mingled its waters with a still larger stream, to become finally lost in the turbid current of the Missouri.†   (source)
  • In their front were stretched those broad plains, which extend, with so little diversity of character, to the bases of the Rocky Mountains; and many long and dreary miles in their rear, foamed the swift and turbid waters of La Platte.†   (source)
  • Why, man, you are farther from the truth than you are from the settlements, with all your bookish laming and hard words; which I have, once for all, said cannot be understood by any tribe or nation east of the Rocky Mountains.†   (source)
  • "Ay, that is partly true, too, I fear; and it will not be long before an accursed band of choppers and loggers will be following on their heels, to humble the wilderness which lies so broad and rich on the western banks of the Mississippi, and then the land will be a peopled desert, from the shores of the main sea to the foot of the Rocky Mountains; fill'd with all the abominations and craft of man, and stript of the comforts and loveliness it received from the hands of the Lord!"†   (source)
  • The speaker paused at the sound of the other's voice, but perceiving it was no more than a sort of mental ejaculation, he continued in the same strain— "More humanised than the grizzly hear, or the panther of the Rocky Mountains; unless the beaver, which is a wise and knowing animal, may be so reckoned.†   (source)
  • Fear you not that: if we can make our peace Upon such large terms and so absolute As our conditions shall consist upon, Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.†   (source)
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  • We were up at Estes Park in the Rockies, about three hundred kids, I'd say.†   (source)
  • After the Rockies, Mount Diablo didn't look very large, nor was it covered in snow.†   (source)
  • I read late, creamy paper yellowed in a circle of weak lights, as the unknown darkness sped past, over the Continental Divide and out of the Rockies, Popper content after his romp around Denver and snoozing happily in his bag.†   (source)
  • Welcome to the Overlook Dining Room, Pride of the Rockies.†   (source)
  • The next year he crossed the Mississippi and went right to the base of the Rockies.†   (source)
  • They pointed out the window directly at a mountain which looked like a spare part from the Rockies.†   (source)
  • At the far end of the boulevard, looming like an escarpment in the Rockies, stood the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†   (source)
  • An entire way of life, along with its economic underpinnings, has been transposed from the West Coast to the Rockies.†   (source)
  • The countryside was beautiful, to be sure, but the beauty was the result of gargantuan mountain ranges rising higher and standing out in sharper relief than the Rockies of the western United States.†   (source)
  • The great line of the Rockies was clear to the west.†   (source)
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  • His ambitions had fixed upon the vast new America on the other side of the Rockies.†   (source)
  • The choice to go east of the Rockies or to Japan was presented without time for consultation with separated parents and children.†   (source)
  • More from stubbornness than hope, she did a scan of the Midwest, heading toward the Rockies.†   (source)
  • The plains stretched endlessly away to her right and as the sun arced low, toward the Rockies on her left, the winter-worn grass around her turned to pale gold.†   (source)
  • She knew about the crash, knew that he was dead out there just east of the Rockies, but she needed to be doing something for him.†   (source)
  • The Appalachian Mountains rose beneath us, not as high and not nearly as pointy as the Rockies.†   (source)
  • We went up into pretty wild country, high in the Rockies, and we stopped at a roadside diner.†   (source)
  • I became friends with the Rockies' first baseman Todd Helton, who is another avid deer hunter, at about the same time Adam called the Duck Commander office.†   (source)
  • There is more to be told, and much more awaiting Barbara and me as we leave the Rockies and head for the Pacific.†   (source)
  • It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and reopened the slavery extension issue thought settled in the Compromise of 1850, by permitting the residents of that vast94 territory from Iowa to the Rockies to decide the slavery question for themselves, on the assumption that the northern part of the territory would be free and the southern part slave.†   (source)
  • Behind him on this warm spring day, the Rockies are still white with snow.†   (source)
  • In 1983 he crossed the Rockies and never looked back.†   (source)
  • The Appalachian Mountains rose beneath us, not as high and not nearly as pointy as the Rockies.†   (source)
  • But the old grade that crossed the Rockies is still there.†   (source)
  • I have fifty miles to build through the Rockies.†   (source)
  • And that searching parties were combing the Rockies for the wreckage of your plane.†   (source)
  • She'd been reported lost in a crash in the Rockies.†   (source)
  • The horizon was near; it always was in the Rockies, where longer views of the world were inevitably cut off by uptilted plates of bedrock.†   (source)
  • It should have been dominated by the bow windows and the gorgeous view of the Rockies beyond them but was instead dominated by the picture of that fleshy woman imprisoned in the ghastly glaring frame with its twists and curlicues and frozen gilded swags.†   (source)
  • By Josh Brannigar It now seems possible that the newest r&r spot of Organization overlords in the U.S. is located at an out-of-the-way hotel nestled in the center of the Rockies.†   (source)
  • As a teenager, her favorite place to swim was Glenwood Springs, a town in the Rockies with enormous pools fed by natural hot springs.†   (source)
  • LAS VEGAS GROUP BUYS FAMED COLORADO HOTEL Scenic Overlook to Become Key Club Robert T. Leffing, spokesman for a group of investors going under the name of High Country Investments, announced today in Las Vegas that High Country has negotiated a deal for the famous Overlook Hotel, a resort located high in the Rockies.†   (source)
  • Colorado Springs now views itself as a place on the cutting edge, the high-tech capital of the Rockies.†   (source)
  • …I knew you were , ' , in trouble when the snow started coming down, but long before that he had stopped in the Boulderado bar and tipped George twenty bucks to provide him with a second bottle of Dom, and he had drunk it rolling up I-70 into the Rockies under a sky the color of gunmetal, and somewhere east of the Eisenhower Tunnel he had diverted from the turnpike because the roads were bare and dry, the storm was sliding off to the south, what the hay, and also the goddam tunnel made…†   (source)
  • Several times he met trappers, coming east from the Rockies, or buffalo hunters who were finding no buffalo.†   (source)
  • He dozed fitfully across the Mojave Desert and the Rockies: two hours and fifteen minutes of half-formed dreams lit by oil lamps and the glow of digital clocks, in which understanding seemed about to wash over him but from which he woke still thirsty for answers.†   (source)
  • Eastern horses rarely came to the West in those days, but the size of the purse had brought Rosemont over the Rockies.†   (source)
  • After tacking on additional railcars to bear the Binglin horses west, the Seabiscuit train rolled out of the East, across the plains and over the Rockies, desolate and white and still in their early, deep winter.†   (source)
  • He said, "But I don't believe that you came all the way from New York just to hunt for railroad cooks in the Rockies.†   (source)
  • Three westbound trains were trapped on the sidings of Winston Station, high in the Rockies, where the main line of Taggart Transcontinental cut across the northwest corner of Colorado.†   (source)
  • -oh well, it's only a matter of tune, but you'll be one of us, because you've always been, if you don't see it fully, we'll wait, I don't careso long as you're alive, so long as I don't have to go on flying over the Rockies, looking for the wreckage of your plane!†   (source)
  • In the Rockies.†   (source)
  • Since it is no longer possible to maintain both the Minnesota Line and the transcontinental traffic of this railroad, the choice is between Minnesota and those states west of the Rockies which were cut off by the failure of the Taggart Tunnel, as well as the neighboring states of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, which means, practically speaking, the whole of the Northwest.†   (source)
  • I have gone from the woods of Maine to the wave-washed sands of Florida, from Hatteras to Halifax, and from the summits of the Rockies to where Missouri rolls her turgid flood, but I have seen few spots that equal, and none that surpass, the beauty of this mountain Eden.†   (source)
  • "Frank here and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where Pa was working a claim.†   (source)
  • She pretended that she was going to the Rockies.†   (source)
  • No. 7, the way train, grumbling through Minnesota, imperceptibly climbing the giant tableland that slopes in a thousand-mile rise from hot Mississippi bottoms to the Rockies.†   (source)
  • But it was at sunset of the following clay, when the train was speeding down the continental slope of prairie land beyond the Rockies, that the West took its ruthless revenge.†   (source)
  • On those bitter, starlit nights, as we sat around the old stove that fed us and warmed us and kept us cheerful, we could hear the coyotes howling down by the corrals, and their hungry, wintry cry used to remind the boys of wonderful animal stories; about grey wolves and bears in the Rockies, wildcats and panthers in the Virginia mountains.†   (source)
  • Grey Beaver had crossed the great watershed between Mackenzie and the Yukon in the late winter, and spent the spring in hunting among the western outlying spurs of the Rockies.†   (source)
  • Or, like a trapper in a Northern Canada movie, plunge through the forest, make camp in the Rockies, a grim and wordless caveman!†   (source)
  • When White Fang was nearly five years old, Grey Beaver took him on another great journey, and long remembered was the havoc he worked amongst the dogs of the many villages along the Mackenzie, across the Rockies, and down the Porcupine to the Yukon.†   (source)
  • The lower edge of this stream took the golden lightning of the sunset and was notched for all its horizon-long length by the wondrous white glistening-peaked range of the Rockies.†   (source)
  • She was conscious of an unbroken sweep of land to the Rockies, to Alaska, a dominion which will rise to unexampled greatness when other empires have grown senile.†   (source)
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  • In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies.   (source)
    the rockies = not referring to the Rocky Mountains in the United States
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