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Mountain-Badakhshan

(Encyclopedia)Mountain-Badakhshan: see Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. ...

mountain beaver

(Encyclopedia)mountain beaver, stout, short-limbed North American rodent, Aplodontia rufa, not closely related to the true beaver. Also called sewellel beaver after the Chinook word for a robe made from its pelts, ...

Mountain Brook

(Encyclopedia)Mountain Brook, city (1990 pop. 19,810), Jefferson co., N central Ala.; inc. 1942. It is a residential suburb of Birmingham.

mountain climbing

(Encyclopedia)mountain climbing, the practice of climbing to elevated points for sport, pleasure, or research. Also called mountaineering, it is practiced throughout the world. Many mountain climbing clubs have...

mountain goat

(Encyclopedia)mountain goat: see Rocky Mountain goat. ...

Mountain-Karabakh

(Encyclopedia)Mountain-Karabakh: see Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. ...

mountain lion

(Encyclopedia)mountain lion: see puma.

Mountain Meadows

(Encyclopedia)Mountain Meadows, small valley in extreme SW Utah, where in 1857 a party of some 140 emigrants bound for California were massacred. It was a period when friction between Mormons and non-Mormons was ac...

mountain men

(Encyclopedia)mountain men, fur trappers and traders in the Rocky Mts. during the 1820s and 30s. Their activities opened that region of the United States to general knowledge. Since the days of French domination th...

mountain sheep

(Encyclopedia)mountain sheep: see bighorn.