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Rocky Mountain States

American  

plural noun

  1. those states in the region of the Rocky Mountains, including Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming, and sometimes Arizona and New Mexico.


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The company will then work on getting sites in the Rocky Mountain States operational, said Dr. Ralph R. Vassallo Jr., the chief medical and scientific officer.

From New York Times Aug. 26, 2016

Pennsylvania gave $974,396.53 which was substantially more than the $919,114.49 from seven Pacific and Rocky Mountain States, plus Alaska.

From Time Magazine Archive

The big dish would be turkey or goose or, in the Rocky Mountain States, perhaps venison.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, in fact, thousands of hardy Americans drove to national forests in the Rocky Mountain States to cut down their own trees, for a nominal $1 fee, and haul them home for their families.

From Time Magazine Archive

A've known these Rocky Mountain States when, if ye owned these pairts an' had a homestead in Hell, y'd rent y'r residence here and take up quiet life the other place!

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

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