Word: valleyful
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West of Miles City, Montana, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific R.R. runs through the valley of the winding Musselshell River. It uses the tracks of a forgotten railroad that laconic Westerners called the Jawbone Line, because it was built on promises. It goes through Roundup, Ringling, Three Forks (where the Missouri begins) and just before Butte, 5,755 feet above sea level, it crosses the Continental Divide...
...Portland only President Roosevelt rated more flashlight bulbs; he had drawn no such crowds when he was a candidate in 1932. Back up the mountain hurried Candidate Dewey, to Salt Lake City, where Republicans were cordial to the point of frenzy; to the Snake River Valley of Idaho, where he lauded the independence of homegrown cooperatives; to Boise past the irrigation projects, the forest reserves, the oil reserves, the region of Thousand Springs, where underground rivers pour from the cliffs in enough volume to provide water for all the cities of the U. S. ("Here in our own America...
...determine the exact date of this prehistoric civilization. It was for this purpose that the Harvard geologists were summoned. As Bryan explains, "It is possible to relate the culture layer in which the relies were found to a definite, but inconspicuous, geologic event, the formation of the unusual Lindenmeier Valley...
...ancient bed of the Lindenmeier River corresponds with a certain terrace in the present valley," he explained. "This terrace in the Lindenmeier Valley can be traced miles downstream to the South Platte River. From here it can be followed upstream to the canyons in the Rocky Mountains. The formation of these canyons is closely connected with the retreat of the last great glacial advance, which is a standard for chronology...
...Virginia Piedmont--a cool breeze skims across the hilltop of Monticello. The trees are always moving, the branches opening and closing holes through which appear glimpses of the surrounding hills, or of the little red and white village of Charlottesville a mile away. Down below in the valleys the woods have been cleared, the red earth turned and turned again with the plow, and planted with seed, so that the valley floor is flecked with patches of fertile green and yellow. All around are the gentle foothills of the Blue Ridge, criss-crossed with sparkling streams, and molded down into...