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...
31James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
, which belongs to the Region of the Rocky Mountains. The bundle being too large for the Mail, I...
32Thomas Jefferson to William Clark, 10 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
skin of the sheep of the Rocky mountain to the
33James Monroe’s Account of a Conversation with Thomas Jefferson, [30 November 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
in the neighborhood of the Rocky mountain. To that kind of project I gave a very...
34William Baldwin to Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
1819 expedition to the Rocky Mountains but died en route in
35To James Madison from Evan Lewis, 8 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
...accompanying Stephen Harriman Long’s expedition to the Rocky Mountains (ibid., pp. xiii–xxiv...
36Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Poplar Forest Plantings and Geography, 1 February 1811–6 October 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Rocky mountain, a single point scarcely seen.
37Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Rocky Mountains
38John Jacob Astor to Thomas Jefferson, 14 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
...were prevented by Indians in the Rocky Mountains from proceeding further, and were...
39Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
...the fruit of the fine voyage you organized to the Rocky Mountains, and even to the great ocean.
40To James Madison from John Jacob Astor, 27 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
...no connection with the trade west of the Rocky mountains—in 1811 the ship Beaver was fittd out...
41Thomas Jefferson to Paul Allen, 18 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
: Rocky Mountains.
42To James Madison from John B. C. Lucas, 26 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
..., one of which he led across the Rocky Mountains with moderate financial success for the firm...
43Charles Thomson to Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
to its source, thence across the rocky mountains and down the
44Enclosure: Hugh Steel’s Reflections on the Western Country, 12 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
& Rocky mountains.—The first would receive fresh accumulations, by the current...
45Salma Hale’s Notes on his Visit to Monticello, [after 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
’s tour over the Rocky Mountains, a history of which lay on the table,
46To John Adams from Joseph Wheaton, 11 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
...columbia, and our Eagles will tower on the Rocky mountains as the Centre of Union, and Spread...
47To James Madison from Richard Rush, 13 December 1818 (Madison Papers)
...border from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. A temporary agreement was reached over...
48From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 31 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
...roses—In my time it was a rugged Rocky Mountain the Ascent to which was incumber’d with...
49From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1822 (Adams Papers)
...but I can walk three miles over a rugged rocky Mountain, and have done it within a month,...
...Johnson.—The air of Quincy Sea, and rocky mountains would do her more good, than all...