| a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains | a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border |
| an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States | a peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,036 feet high) |
| a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico | American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution (1721-1793) |
| | United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891) |