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| Algonquian |
a family of North American Indian languages spoken by tribes from Labrador to the Carolinas and from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains. [1/3 definitions] |
| bighorn |
a wild sheep found in the Rocky Mountains of North America, the male of which has large, curved horns. (See Rocky Mountain sheep.) |
| buffalo grass |
a range grass found on the plains east of the Rocky Mountains. |
| Chinook |
(sometimes l.c.) a warm dry wind blowing eastward from the Rocky Mountains. [1/3 definitions] |
| Louisiana Purchase |
the treaty of 1803 in which the United States purchased from France the territory extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, or the territory itself. |
| Midwest |
the north central flatlands of the United States from the Rocky Mountains through Ohio, Kansas, and Missouri; Middle West. |
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