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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The presence of a Mint makes it seem appropriate that in Denver, as throughout the Rocky Mountain States, a one dollar bill is rare, silver dollars usual.

From Time Magazine Archive

It happened to be at the time of the silver agitation in the West, and the Rocky Mountain States accordingly figured in a large percentage of the answers.

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Roosevelt, Theodore