Powder River

Powder River may refer to:

  • Powder River (Montana), in Wyoming and Montana in the United States
  • Powder River Country, the area around the above river.
  • Powder River (Oregon), in Oregon in the United States
  • Powder River Basin, a major coal producing region in the United States
  • Powder River Pass, a mountain pass in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming
  • Powder River County, Montana
  • Powder River, Wyoming

In history:

  • Powder River Expedition, refers to two military expeditions through the Powder River region
  • Battle of Powder River, a military battle fought during the Black Hills War

In transportation:

  • USS LSM(R)-519, renamed Powder River in 1955

In entertainment:

  • Powder River, a 1989 studio album by country music artist Chris LeDoux

In sports:

  • Powder River pass, a football play in 1954 giving Arkansas a 6-0 win over Ole Miss.

Famous quotes containing the words powder and/or river:

    “Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.”
    —George Axelrod (1922)

    “This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)