His eighteen sixty-six painting "Yosemite Valley" gave many people on the East Coast their first introduction to California's beautiful mountain area.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

They lift their eyes to the tall rock walls that rise hundreds of meters up from the floor of the valley.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Tut's final resting place is one of the smallest of the rulers' tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

He landed in California. He left a hole so deep that to this day it is known as Death Valley.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

They walk along the Frijoles stream lined with green trees that once was the only water supply for the valley.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

And President Lincoln sent thousands of troops to chase Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, instead of helping McClellan at Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

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

VOA: special.2009.01.05

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

His tomb is in the Valley of the Kings on the west side of the Nile River at Luxor.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

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

In the 1700s, the Champlain Valley became a battleground in the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

In the early years of the war, Confederate forces had moved through the valley to strike northern territory.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

He reported about the huge rock formations and said there was no way to reach the valley below.

VOA: special.2009.01.07