Rocky Mountains
44.1500°N -113.8000°W · Q5463
4 English words in this atlas trace back to Rocky Mountains. It sits in Canada.
The disease named for the Rockies is now mostly a problem far from them.
It was first investigated in Montana's Bitterroot Valley in the early 1900s, where Howard Ricketts identified the tick-borne organism that carries his name. Most American cases today are reported from states such as North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, well away from the mountains in the name.
The bray of a pack donkey in a mining camp was nobody's idea of birdsong.
Green's Dictionary of Slang records the phrase from 1883, when burros were the standard pack animal of Rocky Mountain mining camps. Animals turned loose when claims failed bred freely, and parts of Colorado still have wild burro herds living around old mining towns. Miners also called them Colorado mockingbirds.
For decades it could not legally be sold east of the Mississippi, which is what made it worth smuggling.
Coors is brewed at Golden, Colorado, and has always sold itself on Rocky Mountain spring water. Because it was unpasteurized and had to be kept cold, the company distributed in only eleven western states until 1976 and did not reach the whole country until 1986. Hauling it east is the entire plot of Smokey and the Bandit.
Nothing about it comes from the sea, and that is the entire joke.
The dish belongs to cattle country, where spring branding and castration produced the supply, and the oyster name works like the older prairie oyster. The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest record of the phrase is from 1889. Towns in Montana and Colorado have held annual festivals built around eating them.