1. The Appalachians run through thirteen states.

2. They are found in the Appalachians and West Coast. It is the state flower of two US states, West Virginia and Washington, and is quite common in Great Britain as well.

3. The rivers flowing west from the Appalachians are fed not only by melting snow in spring, but also by rain throughout the year.

4. I was raised among earnest hard-working Appalachians whose prime directive was not to put other people to any trouble.

5. Thus the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Adirondacks, the Appalachians, and so on would all have their ridges lined with these monstrosities.

6. The Appalachians run slightly from the northeast to southwest and the Rocky mountains run slightly from the northwest to southeast.

7. There are hundreds of ski resorts in the mountains of the USA, the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada and the Appalachians. You can ski in Britain too.

8. A geographic race of the common grackle ranging from New England and the western Appalachians to the Rocky Mountains, distinguished from the purple grackle by its deep bronze back.

9. The scent of pine and the sound of crickets floated down from the foothill Appalachians.

10. He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians.

11. The animation shows a series of thunderstorms coalescing as the fast-moving front travels from the Appalachians toward the Mid-Atlantic.

12. For generations people have made pilgrimages to these natural gardens, knowing that to see the rhododendrons in full bloom is to witness the wild glory of the high Appalachians at their best.

13. Nevertheless, before tea went overboard inBoston harbor the lawless settlers had penetrated to the crests and valleys ofthe Appalachians and were scouting into forbidden lands beyond.

14. After the American Revolution, a flood of people crossed the mountains into the fertile lands between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River.

15. The British Proclamation of 1763 ordered a halt to the westward movement at the Appalachians, but the decree was widely disregarded.

16. In the East, canopy heights generally decrease along a gradient from the Southern Appalachians (including the forests of the Great Smoky Mountains) to Maine (far northeast corner of the country).

17. When I took geography as a boy, I was told that the Appalachians were "old, worn-down mountains, " while the Rockies, by contrast, were " young,(/appalachians.html) rugged mountains.

18. By far, the largest of the three major sections of the United States is the area between the Appalachians and the Rocky Mountains.

19. I pushed through some dreary weather in Michigan and Ohio, climbed the roller-coaster foothills of the Appalachians and battled traffic and chewed up roads as I entered the city.

20. Incredibly, the Environmental "Protection" Administration has recently approved 42 out of 48 applications for additional mountaintop mining in the Appalachians.

21. Tornado Alley is a vast stretch of the North American continent that stretches from the Texan coastline to the Great Lakes, and from the Rockies to the Appalachians .