Prairie River

Prairie River may refer to:

In the United States:

  • Prairie River (Louisiana) in Louisiana
  • Prairie River (Michigan) in Michigan
  • Prairie River (Minnesota) in Minnesota
  • Prairie River (Wisconsin) in Wisconsin


  • Long Prairie River in Minnesota

Famous quotes containing the words prairie and/or river:

    “The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.”
    —J. William Fulbright (b. 1905)

    “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)