Structures and other evidence of Ancient Pueblo culture has been found extending east onto the American Great Plains, in areas near the Cimarron and Pecos rivers and in the Galisteo Basin.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 ; University of Illinois Press ; ISBN 0-252-02972-0 ( 1958 ; Hardcover, October 2004 ).

* Sierra Nevada creating the Great Basin Desert and northern Mojave Desert

He was hired by John C. Fremont as a guide, and led ' the Pathfinder ' through much of California, Oregon and the Great Basin area.

They determined that all the land in the Great Basin ( centered on modern-day Nevada ) was land-locked, which contributed greatly to the understanding of North American geography at the time.

: Our adventures in the desert were eventually terminated by our arrival at " Las Vegas de Santa Clara ", and a pleasant thing it was to look once more upon green grass and sweet water, and to reflect that the dreariest part of our journey lay behind us, so that the sands and jornados of the Great Basin would weary our animals no more ...

As a result, band societies such as the Shoshone of the Great Basin came across as extraordinarily lazy to European colonialists.

* Great Lakes Basin desert steppe

To date, meteorites numbering possibly into the thousands have been recovered from the Mojave, Sonoran, Great Basin, and Chihuahuan Deserts, with many being recovered on dry lake beds.

Nevada is largely desert and semiarid, with much of it located within the Great Basin.

Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge.

Most of these ranges have endorheic valleys between them, which belies the image portrayed by the term Great Basin.

Much of the northern part of the state is within the Great Basin, a mild desert that experiences hot temperatures in the summer and cold temperatures in the winter.

Image: Great Basin National Park 102007 015. JPG | Pinyon / Juniper woodlands cover most of the mountain ranges in the northeastern and central portions of the state.

** Great Basin tribes: Uto-Aztecan

The creation of the seaway also led to the introduction of invasive species of aquatic animals, most notably the zebra mussel into the Great Lakes Basin.

The desert is underlain by the Great Artesian Basin, one of the largest inland drainage areas in the world.

Finally the mound springs of the Great Artesian Basin are important habitat for a number of plants, fish, snails and other invertebrates.

When the Mormons arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847, the Great Basin was still a part of Mexico and had no secular government.

Chicago rests on a continental divide at the site of the Chicago Portage, connecting the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes watersheds.

Another Commission project, Great Lakes GIS Online, involves creating an online spatial data library, including the Great Lakes shoreline, soils, land use and land cover, hazardous waste sites, demographics, watersheds and transport.

Although French fur traders ranged widely through the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds, as far as the Rocky Mountains, they did not usually settle down.

A continental divide between the Mississippi River and Great Lakes watersheds runs through Cattaraugus County

Additionally, the Canadian rivers of Coaticook and Tomifobia watersheds include Derby, Holland, and Norton Pond, Holland Pond, and Great and Little Averill Ponds.

The county has 3 physiographic sections ( 70 % Great Basin section, 20 % Payette, 10 % Snake River Plain ) and 4 watersheds ( 45 % Humboldt River, 30 % Upper Snake River, 20 % central Nevada desert, 5 % Pilot-Thousand Springs ).

The other watersheds in Columbia contain the main stem of the Pleasant River in the northern part of town, including the Great Heath described below.

The Continental Divide of the Americas, or merely the Continental Gulf of Division or Great Divide, is the name given to the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from ( 1 ) those river systems that drain into the Atlantic Ocean ( including those that drain into the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea ), and ( 2 ) along the northernmost reaches of the Divide, those river systems that drain into the Arctic Ocean.

Secondary divides separate the watersheds that flow into the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway ( ultimately into the Atlantic ) from watersheds that flow to the Atlantic via the Missouri-Mississippi complex.

The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.

The continental divide between the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay watersheds runs northeast – southwest through the east side of the BWCAW, following the crest of the Superior Upland and Gunflint Range.

The Great Lakes Region takes its name from the corresponding geological formation of the Great Lakes Basin, a narrow watershed encompassing The Great Lakes, among watersheds to the region's north ( Hudson Bay ), west ( Mississippi ), east and south ( Ohio ).

* The USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center considers it to be the six states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, which comprise the watersheds of the Upper Mississippi River and upper Great Lakes.

The drainage basin of the river is approximately, encompassing the additional watersheds of the Great Works River and five rivers flowing into Great Bay: the Bellamy, Oyster, Lamprey, Squamscott, and Winnicut.

Map of the watersheds of the Great Miami River, to the west, and Little Miami River, to the east.

Just east of The Shoals Provincial Park, the highway crosses the Laurentian Divide, the boundary between the Great Lakes and Arctic Ocean watersheds.

Great Britain had bought the Egyptian share from Isma ' il Pasha and was the second largest owner of the canal before the crisis.

Lake Ontario is also the only one of the five Great Lakes not to share a coast with the state of Michigan.

* April 19 – Clayton – Bulwer Treaty is signed by the United States and Great Britain, allowing both countries to share Nicaragua and not claim complete control over the proposed Nicaragua Canal.

These two cities share the Duluth – Superior harbor and together are the Great Lakes ' largest port transporting coal, iron ore ( taconite ), and grain.

A story that Empress Catherine the Great did not wish to share her patronal feast with the Leavetaking of the feast of the Presentation of the Theotokos and hence changed the date is not supported by historical evidence.

The most common definition currently used colloquially is that the Midwest proper includes, for the most part, only the East North Central States of the Great Lakes region, specifically Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota, and in addition Iowa and Missouri are also usually understood to share the same regional characteristics.

Under the seemingly benevolent guidance and instruction of the unexpected Vanya visitor " Annatar ", the " Lord of Gifts ", of the fairest race of elves, who claimed he had been sent by the Valar to share his wisdom and skills in ring and jewel making for the benefit of all Middle-earth but who was in fact the Dark Lord Sauron in fair disguise, Celebrimbor led the smiths of Eregion into making sixteen Great rings for the peoples of Middle-earth — seven to the Dwarven lords and nine to Men.

The Bene Gesserit pretend to share the Tleilaxu " Great Belief, the Sufi-Zensunni ecumenism that had spawned the Bene Tleilax.

Odo's return to the Great Link is partially intended to share with the other changelings the information he has about how the war concluded and what he knows from living with solids ; presumably, this is to change the goals and tactics of the Founders to a system that coexists with the solids as opposed to a strategy of domination.

When the king died in 1740 the regiment had a strength of 3, 200 men, but his successor Frederick the Great did not share his father's sentiments about the regiment, which seemed to him an unnecessary expense.

It was the only pre-grouping railway to own or share lines in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, becoming the third largest railway undertaking in the British Isles ( after the Great Western and the London & North Western ), the largest coal haulier, the largest British railway to have its headquarters outside London, and ( after the Great Central railway moved its HQ to London in 1907 ) the only railway serving London not to have its headquarters there and the only Midlands-based railway directly serving Southern England and South Wales.

From 1795 to 1801 Livingson was a Democratic-Republican U. S. Representative in the United States Congress from the state of New York, where he was one of the leaders of the opposition to Jay's Treaty, and introduced the resolution calling upon President George Washington to furnish Congress with the details of the negotiations of the peace treaty with the Kingdom of Great Britain, which the President refused to share.

Zahedi's new government soon reached an agreement with foreign oil companies to form a consortium and " restore the flow of Iranian oil to world markets in substantial quantities ", giving the U. S. and Great Britain the lion's share of Iran's oil.

With the Great Depression hitting the nation, the purse dropped from a winners share of $ 50, 000 and a total of $ 98, 250 in 1930 to $ 18, 000 and $ 54, 450 respectively.

Konoe planned the Sphere in 1940 in an attempt to create a Great East Asia, comprising Japan, Manchukuo, China, and parts of Southeast Asia, that would, according to imperial propaganda, establish a new international order seeking " co prosperity " for Asian countries which would share prosperity and peace, free from Western colonialism and domination.

In 1298, his descendant Ghazan of Persia sent envoys with precious gifts to the Great Khan Temur Khan, and asked for the share of lands and revenues held by his great-grandfather in the Yuan lands ( China and Mongolia ).

CBF members agree that every Christian and every church is called to fulfill the Great Commission, share the gospel of Jesus Christ, and minister to the spiritual, physical, and social needs of people and communities.

An alliance of six UK religious groups ( the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Evangelical Alliance UK, Faithworks, Methodist Church of Great Britain, United Reformed Church and Bible Society-funded thinktank Theos ) made a joint statement on February 19, 2009 in support of the government's decision and condemning the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church saying, " We do not share hatred of lesbian and gay people.

Due to the financial difficulties of the Great Depression, the orchestra was compelled to leave Orchestra Hall and enter into a more economical arrangement to share the Masonic Temple Theatre.

He was the first Jew who, as solicitor-general, took a share in the executive government of his country, the first Jew who was sworn a regular member of the privy council, and the first Jew who took a seat on the judicial bench of Great Britain ; he was also, for many years after being called to the bar, so situated that any one might have driven him from it, because, being a Jew, he was not qualified to be a member of the bar.

In 1773 Christian VII of Denmark surrendered Oldenburg to Catherine the Great in exchange for her son and heir Paul's share in the condominial royal-ducal government of the Duchy of Holstein and his claims to the ducal share in the government of the Duchy of Schleswig ; Oldenburg went to Frederick August, Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck, the representative of a younger branch of the family, and in 1777 the county was raised to the rank of a duchy.