He saw a large straight tree growing by the river.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

This force,led by General Zachary Taylor, had camped near the town of Corpus Christi at the mouth of the Nueces River.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Arizona is the Grand Canyon State because of the famous winding canyon carved by the Colorado River.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

By the middle eighteen-hundreds, almost all the eastern Indians had been moved west of the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

From there it was almost nine hundred kilometers by boat down the Yukon River to the town of Dawson were gold had been discovered.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

They also know that by the middle fifteen hundreds people left their villages and cave homes and moved south and east toward the Rio Grande River.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

He believed that that the river had to be made passable by boats.

VOA: special.2011.04.29

He was influenced by later members of the Hudson River School.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

It shouldn't be best practices to have spills in the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, in the Yellowstone River in Montana and potentially in the future in the Ogallala aquifer which would be crossed by this new proposed Keystone XL pipeline."

VOA: special.2011.07.08

The surge came from a sudden release by a hydropower dam further up the river in the North's territory.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

She notes the Mauritanian border town of Rosso, on the banks of the Senegal River, also has been lashed by heavy rains and devastated by floods.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

One of them - the Erie Canal - opened the West to commerce by connecting New York's Hudson River with the Great Lakes in the heartland.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

"Some of you may recall that in June there was an attack on the Sobat river, which effectively prevented food assistance from being delivered by river,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

Six South Koreans were killed when the North opened the gates to a dam near the border, flooding the banks of a river shared by both sides.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met NATO leaders on the German side of the Rhine River and together they walked across a bridge where they were met by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who then welcomed them into France.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04