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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Rocky Mountains, Coast Mountains, North Cascades, Level Mountain Range, Pacific Coast Ranges, Ilgachuz Range, Interior Mountains, Pacific Ranges, Interior Plateau, Powder Mountain Icefield, Saint Elias Mountains, Mission Ridge, Insular Mountains, Cayoosh Range, Clear Range, Selkirk Mountains, Explorer Ridge, Whitefish Range, Garibaldi Ranges, Rainbow Range, Boundary Ranges, Skagit Range, Sir Winston Churchill Range, Itcha Range, Continental Ranges, Nechako Plateau, Cheam Range, Okanagan Range, Hozameen Range, Thompson Plateau, Fitzsimmons Range, Hart Ranges, Quesnel Highland, Northern Rocky Mountains, Clark Range, Kitimat Ranges, Muskwa Ranges, Alsek Ranges, Livingston Range, Britannia Range, Bedded Range, Pacific Cordillera, Cadwallader Range, High Rock Range, Crowsnest Range, South Jasper Ranges, Ball Range, Spearhead Range, Fairweather Range, Tagish Highland, Beaverdell Range, Selwyn Range, Beaverfoot Range, Sundance Range, Kootenay Ranges, Marble Range, Elk Range, President Range, McGregor Range, Atsutla Range, Lizard Range, Bazalgette Range, Tahltan Highland, Nelson Range, Eaglenest Range, Waputik Range, Tower of London Range, Rocky Mountain Foothills, Kokanee Range, Quanchus Range, Terminal Range, Sentinel Range, Trachyte Hills, Bennett Range, White Range, Coquihalla Range, Farnham Group. Excerpt: The Rocky Mountains (or the Rockies) are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,830 km) from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. The range's highest peak is Mount Elbert located in Colorado at 14,440 feet (4,401 m) above sea level. Within the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all...