1From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 28 June–2 July 1755 (Washington Papers)
...7 to 9 miles “over a chain of very rocky mountains and difficult passes” to Bear Camp. “We...
2[1758] (Adams Papers)
...the Sea and the pure Zephirs from the rocky mountains of my native Town: that my Father...
3From Benjamin Franklin to John Pringle, 27 May 1762 (Franklin Papers)
..., especially one showing clearly the high Rocky Mountains through which de Fonte allegedly...
4[Braintree and Boston, 1771–1773] (Adams Papers)
...from the Sea on one Side and the rocky Mountains of Pine and Savin on the other,...
5[June 1771] (Adams Papers)
...flowed through Braintree. But the barren rocky Mountains of Braintree are as great a...
61771. Saturday June 8th. (Adams Papers)
...flowed through Braintree. But the barren rocky Mountains of Braintree are as great a...
7From John Adams to Horatio Gates, 23 March 1776 (Adams Papers)
...it, they should be obliged to remove the rocky Mountains of my Town of Braintree into the...
8From John Jay to Robert Morris, 6 October 1776 (Jay Papers)
...shallowing the River a romantic scheme—Rocky Mountains rise immediately from its Shores,...
9[December 1779] (Adams Papers)
...building of Stone, which comes from the rocky Mountains round about of which there are many...
10John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 December 1779 (Adams Papers)
...fortified by Nature, by Rows of lofty rocky Mountains on each Side the narrow Entrance of...
111779 Decr. 14. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
...building of Stone, which comes from the rocky Mountains round about of which there are many...
12[1779 December 14. Tuesday.] (Adams Papers)
...building of a Stone which comes from the rocky Mountains round about, of which there are many....
13[January 1780] (Adams Papers)
...Precipices that I ever saw. These rocky Mountains made the Boundary between the ancient...
141780. January 13. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
...Precipices that I ever saw. These rocky Mountains made the Boundary between the ancient...
15[1780. January 13. Thursday.] (Adams Papers)
...Precipices, I ever saw. These Rocky Mountains made the Boundary between the ancient...
16From Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Louis Giraud Soulavie, 22 September 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...remarked that at the lowest Part of that rocky Mountain which was in sight, there were Oyster...
17To George Washington from Christian Senf, 20 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
...Carolina military establishment, he settled at Rocky Mountain on the Catawba River. Senf...
18John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
...enchanting Employment! how my Imagination roves over my rocky Mountains and through my brushy...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to...
20Notes on the History of Mt. Wollaston, 19 October 1802 (Adams Papers)
...Captain Joseph Baxter, the fourth, the Rocky Mountain behind the nine Milestone, the fifth,...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Lacépède, 13 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Rocky Mountains in 1792 and 1793 (
22To Thomas Jefferson from William Dunbar, 30 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
: the Rocky Mountains.
23To Thomas Jefferson from Meriwether Lewis, 7 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...this point, or the first range of rocky Mountains situated about 100 miles further, any...
24To James Madison from Robert Purviance, 12 August 1805 (Madison Papers)
...skins of antelope, mule deer, marten, Rocky Mountain squirrels, and coyote, Indian artifacts,...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Gertrude J. Senf, 3 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Rocky Mountain. Sept. 3th. 1806
26To Thomas Jefferson from Meriwether Lewis, 21 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...under promis to accompany us to the Rocky mountains with a view to reestablish peace between...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Meriwether Lewis, 23 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...2575 miles, thence by land passing the Rocky Mountains to a navigable part of the Kooskooske...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, 24 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
...last, & arrived at the foot of the Rocky mountains May 10, where they were detained until June...
29To Thomas Jefferson from William Clark, 2 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
...this letter, a Skin of the Sheep of the Rocky Mountain. I have a Blanket made by the Indians...
30From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1809 (Madison Papers)
..., which belongs to the Region of the Rocky Mountains. The bundle being too large for the...