"If you happened to be a Taino who lived up in the mountains and you weren't in the sun a lot and maybe your skin was a little lighter, then they threw you in the 'white' bucket."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Lake Champlain lies in a valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

This very modern building was made to give its owners a beautiful view of the nearby forest and mountains.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Off in the distance you see a valley way below and lines of bluish gray mountains that seem to reach forever.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

They told Brigham Young about a great salt lake in a wide valley on the western side of the Rocky Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

It is in a beautiful area of the Blue Ridge Mountains where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers come together.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

But visitors to Guadalupe Mountains National Park in West Texas can still get a sense of their historic importance.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

The company asked him to lead workers on a project to extend the railroad into the Allegheny Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

It's lonesome enough to live in the mountains when a man and a woman care for each other.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

I could tell from the surrounding mountains that we were on the bottom of a long dead sea.

VOA: special.2011.07.23

He was influenced at the age of nine by a painting in his school of the highest mountains on the seven continents.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

one man asked. Brown answered that his men would fight in the mountains, where a small force could stop a much larger one.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

The clouded leopard is also a subject of research in Front Royal,Virginia, in America's Blue Ridge Mountains.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

He pointed out a line of mountains that appears from east to west in South Africa.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

This huge home was built more than a century ago near the mountains of North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

We continue on our trip, driving on a winding road up and down the Black Mountains.

VOA: special.2010.08.23

The valley looks like a hole in the middle of the mountains that surround it.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

They controlled every road into the city except a rough one through the mountains.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

With the gold they found in the mountains came a desire for further improvement.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Today we travel to the mountains of Wyoming for a trip to Jackson Hole.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

One of the guests was Dolly Parton. The country singer grew up in the Great Smoky Mountains, and wrote a fund-raising CD for the seventy-fifth anniversary.

VOA: special.2009.09.28