The Rockiesin a sentence
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In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies. (source)the Rockies = the chief mountain range of western North America
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We started in the foothills of the Rockies as we left Yellowstone, and all day we climbed up and down. (source)
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He leaned back in the padded leather chair of the Gulfstream II jet as it flew east, toward the Rocky Mountains. (source)
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Alone in the waiting area, Roy dug through a stack of magazines until he found an issue of Outdoor Life that had an article about fishing for cutthroat trout in the Rocky Mountains. (source)
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I stared at the Rockies from my bedroom window and was struck by how implausible they seemed.† (source)
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We were up at Estes Park in the Rockies, about three hundred kids, I'd say.† (source)
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If trees, better to move it back to the Rocky Mountains.† (source)
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After the Rockies, Mount Diablo didn't look very large, nor was it covered in snow.† (source)
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Across the strip of cowhide one sees a rendering of a two-lane blacktop, a NO-U-TURN sign, a thunderstorm producing a flash flood that engulfs a car, a hitchhiker's thumb, an eagle, the Sierra Nevada, salmon cavorting in the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Coast Highway from Oregon to Washington, the Rocky Mountains, Montana wheat fields, a South Dakota rattlesnake, Westerberg's house in Carthage, the Colorado River, a gale in the Gulf of California, a canoe beached beside a tent, Las Vegas, the initials T.C.D., Morro Bay, Astoria, and at the buckle end, finally, the letterN (presumably representing north).† (source)
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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)
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Rocky Mountains.† (source)
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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)
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Plus stuff bout the desert and the Indians and the rocky mountains.† (source)
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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)
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I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of Rocky Mountains.† (source)
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The next year he crossed the Mississippi and went right to the base of the Rockies.† (source)
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