Definition of Alleghenies

1. Noun. The western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Alleghenies

All Saints Day
All Souls' Day
All Souls' day
All Whites
Alla
Alla Nazimova
Allah
Allahabad
Allahu akbar
Allamakee
Allamanda cathartica
Allan
Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome
Allee effect
Alleghany plum
Alleghenies (current term)
Allegheny
Allegheny Mountains
Allegheny River
Allegheny chinkapin
Allegheny mountain spurge
Allegheny plum
Allegheny spurge
Allegheny vine
Allegra
Allemande Left
Allemannic
Allen
Allen's test

Literary usage of Alleghenies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the Trail of the Pioneers: Romance, Tragedy and Triumph of the Path of Empire by John Thomson Faris (1920)
"STRUGGLES WITH THE Alleghenies Morn on the Alleghenies! on their side, Crossing a rocky ... Alleghenies."

2. History of the Battle of Point Pleasant Fought Between White Men and Indians by Virgil Anson Lewis (1909)
"... but that Virginia had established civil government therein. So the Mississippi river, and not the Alleghenies, became the western boundary of ..."

3. Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1920)
"WEST OF THE Alleghenies The burial customs of some western Algonquian tribes were, in many respects, quite similar to those of the New England Indians. ..."

4. The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the by Harry Clinton Green, Mary Wolcott Green (1912)
"... the "first white bride west of the Alleghenies"; carried away by the Indians, she escaped, and travelled seven hundred miles through the wilderness to ..."

5. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"... Daniel Webster, New Hampshire's mighty son, a man who allowed "no Alleghenies in his politics" and whose death October 24, 1852, convulsed a nation. ..."

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