Sentence examples for mountain passage from inspiring English sources

"Snow Mountain Passage" is a fine novel about the intrigues of California circa 1846.

In "Snow Mountain Passage," James D. Houston takes these grand elements and turns them into an undistinguished work of historical fiction.

Three sailors level their pistols, but Sutter tells them, "Wait!" James D. Houston's late 19th-century California historical novel Bird of Another Heaven followed on the success of his Donner Party fiction Snow Mountain Passage (2001).

On the side of one steep and narrow mountain passage sits the gnarled mess of a car — a memorial, a sign posted nearby says, to a family of seven killed in a Turkish airstrike.

Near the end of "Snow Mountain Passage," James Reed and his wife, Margaret, walk through a warm California meadow and engage in what one imagines might have been the 1847 version of post-traumatic-stress counseling: " 'On such a day as this, James, the mountains are nothing but an awful dream.' " 'Well, that is all behind us now.' " 'Yes.

In various guises California would play the lead role in Mr. Houston's work, notably in his best-known novels, "Continental Drift" (1978), about the shadow cast when a son returns to the family ranch from Vietnam, and "Snow Mountain Passage" (2001), a novel about a family traveling with the Donner Party.

("Mountain Passages," the first Greenleaf release, was dedicated to his memory).

The troops have proceeded slowly, even though this roadside terrain was relatively easy, compared to the mountain passages that lay ahead, soldiers said.

Yet as this strategy was implemented, immigrant traffic shifted to dangerous desert and mountain passages along the border.

Agriculturally barren and obstinate to passage, mountains are the last landscapes to become useful, and so are left to the fringes.

There are 16 caves of varying size runnign along a white ridge in the side of a mountain, crowned by the passage tomb of Keshcorran.