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:

    “To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)