A road leads the way towards the Sierra Nevada of California - Alex Potemkin/Getty Images There are thousands of named mountain ranges in the United States of America. From the East Coast to the West ...

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New Mexico’s official state animal is the American black bear, but the choice reflected more than the presence of a large mammal in the state’s forests. Lawmakers selected the black bear in 1963 ...

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There are thousands of named mountain ranges in the United States of America. From the East Coast to the West Coast to the fringes of the Arctic, peaks and summits are one of the great defining ...