This is not because it has diamonds but because it believes it is the jewel of the western Rocky Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Throughout the territory - in the mountains, along the streams and rivers - thousands of people searched for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Off in the distance you see a valley way below and lines of bluish gray mountains that seem to reach forever.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

"We try to do something outside ' cause we live in Santa Fe and we live right in the mountains.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

The city is more than two thousand meters above sea level, near the southern Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

This very modern building was made to give its owners a beautiful view of the nearby forest and mountains.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

They told Brigham Young about a great salt lake in a wide valley on the western side of the Rocky Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

It has high mountains. It has valleys formed by ancient ice that cut deep into the Earth millions of years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

The story of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the area that is Yosemite National Park begins about 500 million years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

And something did. The following winter, the winter of eighteen fifty-one, is still remembered for the heavy snows in the mountains.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

The eastern state of Vermont is proud of its beautiful Green Mountains so it calls itself the Green Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

It is in a beautiful area of the Blue Ridge Mountains where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers come together.

VOA: special.2009.11.06