After the Spaniards brought horses to the Southwest, herds of wild horses roamed the southwestern plains, and in later times gave the plains Indians a means of travel the Eastern Indians did not have.
When he heard of the capture of the fort, he started westward, cutting a road for wagons and cannon as he went, and camped for a time at Great Meadows, in southwestern Pennsylvania.
One under General Curtis moved tosouthwestern Missouri and won a battle at Pea Ridge (Arkansas).
The results are even less satisfactory in the southern andsouthwestern group of states.
The contract by mere present consent of the parties, regardless of the statutory requirements, has been widely accepted as valid in the group of southern and southwestern states and territories.
In all of the southern and southwestern states, except Louisiana and, of course, South Carolina, a short term of residence is required to qualify the plaintiff to bring suit.
The group thrives well on stony and gravelly hills of our hottest southwestern deserts where the rainfall is three inches or less.
Pringle, botanist and collector ofsouthwestern plants) How to identify and how it grows The stems of this species grow singly or occasionally in clumps of a few.
The stems grow in clumps of as many as forty, and range from the low foothills and dry bajadas of southwestern Texas to southern New Mexico and eastern Arizona.
This plant is the handsomest of all the southwestern Prickly Pears, while the purplish circular joints with but a few slender spines make it quite distinctive.
Without help from the following persons and organizations, it would have been impossible for us to make such careful study of these plants, so widely distributed over the Southwestern deserts: We thank Dr.
This is a remarkable cactus found in Sonora (a state of Northern Mexico), southwestern Arizona, and Lower California under the most arid conditions.
Strawberry Cacti are among the most popular plants for southwestern cactus gardens and rock gardens because of their fine showy flowers, and their profuse blooming and fruiting.
Over the arid sandy or gravelly soils of the southwestern desert, this fierce Cholla has fought his way and proved his right to existence, asking nothing from the hand of man and having little to give.
This is one of the oldest mainland settlements of southwestern Alaska, having been used as the mainland port of the former Russian capital, Kodiak, on Kodiak Island.
Changing at Prescott Junction, it was not long before Roger found himself in Prescott, a thriving and flourishing town of the Southwestern type.
In Sinaloa, a rich northern state--famous in the southwestern United States some years ago as the field of a great co-operative experiment in which Mr. C.
Chips and flakes of the great Southwestern herd began to be seen in the Northern States.
The declination [78] of the southwestern end was twenty degrees south.
Eight days afterward, the declination of the southwestern end was twenty-four degrees and thirty minutes south.
Down in the southwestern corner of the Animas valley the Guadalupe Cañon trail approached the gorge from which it got its name.
Apaches crept upon them in the mountains of southwestern New Mexico.
And now this youth, the deadliest of the Southwestern outlaws, spoke from the Scriptures to Pat Garret; perhaps it was all of his Bible that he knew.
She rode beside him now on many an expedition; into the sand-hills ofsouthwestern New Mexico, and down across the border into northern Sonora.
And so he came riding down into the flaring valleys of the Southwestern border along with the first influx of adventurers.
During the rainy seasons the rivers of that Southwestern land proceeded to demonstrate that they had a right to the name--to which they never pretended to live up at other times--by running bank full.
Colorado Rockies to western Texas and westward to the eastern borders of Utah, southwestern Wyoming, central Arizona and on into Mexico, often forming extensive open forests, and reaching an elevation of seven thousand feet.
In the Southwestern states the dried leaves are much used as an ingredient in soups, for which they are well adapted by the abundance of mucilage they contain.
In southwestern Oregon the tree reaches the height of eighty feet, with a trunk three to four feet in diameter.
The California laurel climbs the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada from the forests of southwestern Oregon to the San Bernardino range near Los Angeles.
This balsam fir, much more luxuriant in foliage, and worthier of cultivation as an ornamental tree, is native to the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Asia, in its warmer southern territory, and in southwestern China, has many native acacias.
All that day and the next they drew the net slowly over that portion of the Ozark range that cut through the southwestern part of the state.
And now they were once more in the saddle, having chosen the Ozark Mountains in southwestern Missouri as the scene of their next explorations.
Undoubtedly the images are similar in character to the kapatongs I have described as occupying an important place in the lives of the Duhoi (Ot-Danum), the Katingan, and other tribes of Southwestern Borneo.
Roughly two companies of Katayama's troops stormed up the southwestern slope only to be slaughtered by mortar, artillery, and small-arms fire.
Their first camp was made on the southwestern end of the island.
Had the lads but known it, their wisest course would have been to cross directly from the Grand Portage to the southwestern end of Isle Royale and then skirt the island to its northeast tip.
This is an abundant bird among the foothills of southwestern United States, in Texas, New Mexico and southern California.
The number of eggs and nesting habits are practically the same as the preceding, as are also the five or six sub-species between this and the last, all of which occur in the southwestern part of the United States.
In southwestern United States from Central California to Mexico.
Found in the southwestern United States, from western Texas, and southern California, into Mexico.
The ancient Apache war cry that had sounded across deserts, canyons, andsouthwestern Terran plains to ice the blood, ripped just as freezingly through the honey-hued air of Topaz.
The species flourishes in Southern Asia and Europe and in our Southwestern and Pacific Coast States, but most of the attempts that have been made to fruit it in Northern and Eastern sections have failed.
Down in extreme southwestern Ontario the pecan has cropped and ripened.
AFTER a ramble through the wild mountainous region of southwestern Pennsylvania, I returned to Philadelphia; and soon afterward started for Washington, to remain there a few weeks in the capacity of correspondent.
I desired to visit some friends in southwestern Pennsylvania, however, and it was not much out of my way, after all, to take the Philadelphia and Wilmington, and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads.
Idaho; southwestern Montana; most of the southwestern half of Wyoming; southward to central Colorado.
Southeastern Coahuila is in this province that includes mountains in southern Nuevo León, southwestern Tamaulipas, and eastern San Luis Potosí.
Some representatives of the avifauna of the central and southern sections of the Central Plateau reach southwestern Coahuila.
Pico de Jimulco in southwestern Coahuila, is paler above and below than any other specimens of C.
Arizona and southwestern New Mexico south into the highlands of México, west of the Sierra Madre Oriental, to Oaxaca and in winter and migration extends eastward and south to Chiapas.
Some birds of central and southern México reach southeastern and southwestern Coahuila.
They lived like Indians in the Alleghany Mountains region of southwestern Pennsylvania.
In March of the next year, 1775, Daniel Boone led thirty men who with their hatchets blazed a bridle-trail of two hundred miles, from southwestern Virginia across Cumberland Gap and on into the northwest clear to the Kentucky River.
For his Comanches he chose lands at the base of the Wichita Mountains near Fort Sill in southwestern Oklahoma.
One block-house had been located in Bond County, half-way down southwestern Illinois, or about eight miles south of present Greenville.
This was the Three Forks country, of present southwestern Montana, where the Missouri split into three branches named by Captain Lewis the Madison, the Gallatin and the Jefferson.
There came, also, the same year, from the Holston River in southwestern Virginia, the noble Benjamin Logan, of Irish birth but as dark in hair and complexion as James Harrod.
As Daniel Boone had hoped, instead of continuing on to Boonesborough the Shawnees hastened northward, to display their triumph in their town of Little Chillicothe on the Little Miami River in southwestern Ohio.
Help must be summoned from the Holston settlement on the Holston River in southwestern Virginia, two hundred miles by Boone's Trace.
War Bonnet Creek of extreme southwestern South Dakota, west of the Red Cloud reservation, was the place where the red trail struck the white trail; Chief-of-Scouts Buffalo Bill knew it well.
The evacuation of Hilton Head, on the southwesternextremity of Beaufort Island, followed the capture of Port Royal.
As part of the plan to subjugate the Southwestern States, extensive preparations were made for an advance through Mississippi and an attack on Vicksburg by combined land and naval forces.
The Southwestern States presented a field peculiarly favorable for the application of a new power in war.
The entire garrison, including its commander, being still held prisoners by the enemy, I am unable to suggest any explanation of this disaster which laid open Eastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia to hostile operations.
He, when a boy of ten, had once accompanied his father on a visit into southwestern Virginia.
South of the Ionians, all along the southwestern shore of Asia Minor, the Dorians established their colonies.
We only know that by the dawn of history its various clans and tribes, whencesoever they may have come, had distributed themselves over the greater part of Southwestern Asia.
The capital of the new Republic was to be La Rochelle, on the southwestern coast of France.
He was a man of great energy and of undoubted military talent,--for by him the Assyrian power was once more extended over the greater part of Southwestern Asia.
One of the southwestern trappers claims that they like fresh pork, in his section, better than any other food.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "southwestern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
