 | Robert Tyas - 1853 - 240 strani
...California 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 and... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1853 - 246 strani
...California 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 and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1864 - 810 strani
...elevated plateau which fills the intervening space between the confronting ranges of the Ande.«, known as the Rocky mountains on the east, and the Sierra Nevada on the west, may be said to contain the sources of this vast wealth. So far as is at present known, every stream... | |
 | Rev. James Shaw - 1867 - 472 strani
...in 1859 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 - 1867 - 814 strani
...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... | |
 | Titus Fey Cronise - 1868 - 726 strani
...is marked by a long and nearly straight luie of culminating peaks, extends from Mount Shasta to the Tehatchaypah Pass, a distance of nearly five hundred...vast sterile tract of country included between the Eocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, in which are the great silver mines... | |
 | Titus Fey Cronise - 1868 - 744 strani
...a long and nearly straight line of culminating peaks, extends from Mount Shasta to the Tehatchajpah Pass, a distance of nearly five hundred miles. The...vast sterile tract of country included between the Eocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, in which are the great silver mines... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1868 - 822 strani
...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... | |
 | American Institute of Mining Engineers - 1873 - 524 strani
...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.... | |
 | Rossiter Worthington Raymond - 1873 - 600 strani
...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.... | |
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... between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, in which are the great silver mines of Nevada. 
