Both Uses of
The Rockies
in
My Antonia
- 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.†
Book 1
- 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.†
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Definition:
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(The Rockies) the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide