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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A mountain chain of western Canada and the United States extending about 1,126 km (700 mi) south from British Columbia through western Washington and Oregon to northern California, where it joins the Sierra Nevada. Mount Rainier, 4,395.1 m (14,410 ft), is the highest peak and one of many snow-capped volcanic cones in the range.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range
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“Colonel Wright took command of the district in place of Rains, and had been at Vancouver but a short time before he realized that it would be necessary to fight the confederated tribes east of the Cascade Range of mountains, in order to disabuse them of the idea that they were sufficiently strong to cope with the power of the Government.”
Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
“Acting under these influences, the Spokanes, Walla Wallas, Umatillas, and Nez Perces cast their lot with the hostiles, and all the savage inhabitants of the region east of the Cascade Range became involved in a dispute as to whether the Indians or the Government should possess certain sections of the country, which finally culminated in the war of 1856.”
Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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