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 watersheds that share a border with the Columbia watershed include Harney Basin, Humboldt River, and Great Salt Lake.

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.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

He was said to have been born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometers northwest of Athens, which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica, though the date is most likely based on counting back forty years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia.

* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a sovereign state in western Europe

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

The area is located just east of the foothills of the Front Range, aligned in a north-south configuration on the western edge of the Great Plains, where they meet the Rockies.

In 899 Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, died leaving his son Edward the Elder as ruler of Britain south of the River Thames and his daughter Æthelflæd and son-in-law Æthelred ruling the western, English part of Mercia.

King Herod the Great built or rebuilt several fortresses and palaces on the western bank of the Dead Sea.

Seabirds include the second largest colony in the western Indian Ocean of Great Frigatebirds ( with up to 1100 pairs ), Audubon's Shearwaters ( up to 100 pairs, probably of the subspecies Puffinus lherminieri bailloni previously considered endemic to the Mascarene Islands ), Dimorphic Egrets and Caspian Terns.

It was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard ( New York City ) and the western interior ( Great Lakes ) of the United States that did not require portage, was faster than carts pulled by draft animals, and cut transport costs by about 95 %.

Hamilton and Washington designed the Jay Treaty to normalize trade relations with Great Britain, remove them from western forts, and resolve financial debts left over from the Revolution.

Pinguinus alfrednewtoni lived in the western Atlantic while the Great Auk lived in the eastern Atlantic, but after the former died out after the Pliocene, the Great Auk replaced it.

The Huns may have stimulated the Great Migration, a contributing factor in the collapse of the western Roman Empire.

Average rainfall is high compared to the majority of the British Isles, due to its location to the western side of Great Britain and sufficient distance from Ireland for moisture to be accumulated by the prevailing south-westerly winds.

The western Khanates, however, eventually adopted Islam ( under Berke and Ghazan ) and the Turkic languages ( because of its commercial importance ), although allegiance to the Great Khan and limited use of the Mongolian language can be seen even in 1330's.

The Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, was built in 670 and is the most prestigious mosque in the western Islamic world.

Built soon after the conquest of northwest Africa, the first mosque built in this region is the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ) founded by the Umayyad general Uqba Ibn Nafi during the second half of the 7th century and considered as the oldest place of worship in the western Islamic world.

Mormonism, originated in the 1820s in western New York during a period of religious excitement known as the Second Great Awakening.

The western half of the state consists of the hilly Great Plains, and the northern part of the Badlands to the west of the Missouri River.

Cassiodorus, a Roman in the service of Theodoric the Great, invented the term " Visigothi " to match that of " Ostrogothi ", which terms he thought of as " western Goths " and " eastern Goths " respectively.

In 1845, a plant disease known as late blight, caused by the fungus-like oomycete Phytophthora infestans, spread rapidly through the poorer communities of western Ireland, resulting in the crop failures that led to the Great Irish Famine.

In the centuries following the conquest of western Asia by Alexander the Great, each story was retold to more closely resemble the other.

The Saint Lawrence Seaway ( St. Lawrence Seaway ), (), is the common name for a system of locks, canals and channels that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, as far inland as the western end of Lake Superior.