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• n  a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding
• n  a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray
• s  (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey
  a roan horse

• The bony-faced, roan-haired soprano who stepped onto the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week had already been honored in England as a Commander of the Order of the .
• Instead, prior to his entrance, besides the beautiful reddish-roan, fighting bull, there were some five or six well mounted white cowboys of the Miller outfit, all armed with .
• Then the bronc-busters' skill is challenged by a blaze-faced roan given to bucking, biting and occasional drunkenness.

News & Articles

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• Flyover gives Sierra Club exec a look at western Garfield County gas patch
  Kelley Cox / Post Independent Executive director of the national Sierra Club, Michael Brune, visited the Garfield County Regional Airport with his family on Wednesday. Brune took a flight tour over the Roan Platteau with EcoFlight.
  June 14, 2013 - Glenwood Springs Post Independent
• Annual Roan Cliff Chaos set for Saturday and Sunday
  Registration is open for the annual Roan Cliff Chaos mountain bike race, Saturday and Sunday, June 15-16, north of Rifle on the Bureau of Land Management’s JQS area.
  June 12, 2013 - Glenwood Springs Post Independent
• Racism is just another form of class warfare
  A few weeks ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center outed Roan Garcia-Quintana, a co-chair for Nikki Haley's re-election campaign, for being a member of the Council of Concerned Citizens, a white supremacist group. In the days that followed, the governor's camp defended Garcia-Quintana, but he ultimately resigned from the Haley team.
  June 12, 2013 - Charleston City Paper

Quotes

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• Ken Salazar in Aspen Times
  My request for an additional 120 days to review the draft plan prior to the Record of Decision was intended to give my administration an opportunity to ensure that the values shared by Colorado's citizens were reflected in the Roan Management... Bill Ritter http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ritter_(politician)&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE1wYtxOQT7FdScuVoKSMSTQe35_g Bizjournals.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/06/04/daily57.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGu5n3EjiwTbyqAN5stlDT6lbOMkA Jun 8, 2007 84363 112100 roan I am deeply disappointed that the administration is proceeding with its plan to auction off the entire top of the Roan Plateau for oil and gas development, despite objections by the state of Colorado," Salazar said in a prepared statement....
• Mark Udall in Denver Post
  We shouldn't undertake development at the expense of unique places like the national wildlife refuge in Alaska and the Roan Plateau,Udall said.