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the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide
- 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.Chapter 3 (2% in)
- She pretended that she was going to the Rockies.Chapter 24 (80% in)
- 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.Chapter 39 (80% in)
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