Powder River (Oregon)
The Powder River is a tributary of the Snake River, approximately 153 miles (246 km) long, in northeast Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of the Columbia Plateau on the eastern side of the Blue Mountains. It is almost entirely contained within Baker County but includes a portion of Union County.
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Famous quotes containing the words powder and/or river:
“My little bout-town gal has gone
Bout town with powder and blue dye
On her pale lids....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)