sierras

And our Reynolds Wolf is high in the sierras, that is in Truckee, California.

CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2008 2008

We're driving, and I think we'll drive back up the eastern side of the sierras, which is incredibly bleak and beautiful.

readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2002

These outcrops are concentrated on the southern part of the area, the most famous being Monte Pascoal; (b) Tertiary sedimentary limestone plateau and tabular hills or "sierras", 100 m in height, which are interrupted by river and stream valleys.

Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, Brazil 2009

THE TEMPERATURE of the regions west of the Rocky Mountains is much milder than in the same latitudes on the Atlantic side; the upper plains, however, which lie at a distance from the sea-coast, are subject in winter to considerable vicissitude; being traversed by lofty "sierras," crowned with perpetual snow, which often produce flaws and streaks of intense cold This was experienced by Captain Bonneville and his companions in their progress westward.

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850

THE TEMPERATURE of the regions west of the Rocky Mountains is much milder than in the same latitudes on the Atlantic side; the upper plains, however, which lie at a distance from the sea-coast, are subject in winter to considerable vicissitude; being traversed by lofty "sierras," crowned with perpetual snow, which often produce flaws and streaks of intense cold This was experienced by Captain Bonneville and his companions in their progress westward.

The adventures of Captain Bonneville 1837

"sierras," crowned with perpetual snow, which often produce flaws and streaks of intense cold This was experienced by Captain Bonneville and his companions in their progress westward.

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Washington Irving 1821

I had read in the Fiesta brochure that there was to be a workshop on Traditional Huichol Medicine conducted by a genuine mara'akame (shaman-priest) from the remote sierras.

The Huichol: more personal reminiscences 2009

I had read in the Fiesta brochure that there was to be a workshop on Traditional Huichol Medicine conducted by a genuine mara'akame (shaman-priest) from the remote sierras.

The Huichol: more personal reminiscences 2009

In the far distance to the east, the sierras stretched forever into the heartland of Mexico.

Walking the walk, talking the talk - Colimilla, Colima 2008

Although many of the Chichimeca Indians were nomadic, some of the Zacatecos Indians had dwellings of a more permanent character, inhabiting areas near the wooded sierras.

The indigenous past of Zacatecas 2008