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Example sentences for: sierras

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(On the loftiest of the sierras
The line, which linked up with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, in 1869, was built under the most hazardous conditions, using poorly paid Chinese laborers who sometimes worked suspended in wicker baskets over sheer cliffs to hack a tenuous cutting through the steep passes of the Sierras.
The view over the whole valley and the High Sierras beyond is breathtaking, as is the other way to get here — a steep hike up the Four-Mile Trail.
5 billion, $500 million more than all the gold the Sierras yielded in a century.
Under constant threat for more than 200 years, the population drifted inland, taking refuge in fortified towns and villages hidden in the foothills of the Sierras.