 | Robert Tyas - 1853 - 246 halaman
...is a large country belonging to the United States. In the eastern part lies the vast country between the Rocky Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Nevada on the west. In it are mountains and deserts ; but along its rivers much of the country is comparatively fertile... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1853 - 240 halaman
...is a large country belonging to the United States. In the eastern part lies the vast country between the Rocky Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Nevada on the west. In it are mountains and deserts ; but along its rivers much of the country is comparatively fertile... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1867 - 814 halaman
...it is unnecessary to describe them in detail. RIVERS. — The great intra-mountain basin, formed by the Rocky Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Nevada on the west, and of which Nevada occupies a large portion, is comparatively waterless, and hence has sometimes been... | |
 | Rev. James Shaw - 1867 - 472 halaman
...to 1865, 65,000,000 dollars in gold — the last year yielding 18,000,000 dollars of that. Between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west lies the Utah Territory, with an area of 100,882 square miles, the seat of Mormonism, with a population... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1868 - 822 halaman
...it is unnecessary to describe them in detail. RIVERS. — Thj great intra-mountain basin, formed by the Rocky Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Nevada on the west, and of which Nevada occupies a large portion, is comparatively waterless, and hence has sometimes been... | |
 | TItus Fey Cronise - 1868 - 736 halaman
...bold and abrupt, and forms the western wall of that vast sterile tract of country included between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, in which are the great silver mines of Nevada. The Coast Ranges are not so strongly marked by any one... | |
 | Titus Fey Cronise - 1868 - 722 halaman
...bold and abrupt, and forms the western wall of that vast sterile tract of country included between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, in which are the great silver mines of Nevada. The Coast Ranges are not so strongly marked by any one... | |
 | Rossiter Worthington Raymond - 1873 - 600 halaman
...argentiferous and auriferous lead or copper ores, are situated in the Great Basin, that great plateau between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, almost the whole of which is comprised at present in the boundaries of Nevada, Utah, and part of Arizona.... | |
 | American Institute of Mining Engineers - 1873 - 524 halaman
...argentiferous and auriferous lead, or copper ores, are situated in the Great Basin, that great plateau between the Rocky Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Nevada on the west, almost the whole of which is comprised at present in the boundaries of Nevada, Utah, and part of Arizona.... | |
 | 1917 - 498 halaman
...which embraces all that territory south of the 42nd degree of north latitude, and between the crest of the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west. As to the Province of New Mexico, when General Kearney and General Doniphan, in 1846, occupied this... | |
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