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The Powder River Country is the Powder River Basin area of the Great Plains in northeastern Wyoming, United States. The area is loosely defined as that between the Bighorn Mountains and the Black Hills , in the upper drainage areas of the Powder , Tongue , and Little Bighorn rivers.
Powder River is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, approximately 375 miles (604 km) long in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana in the United States. Combined with its tributary, the South Fork Powder River, it is 550 miles long. It drains an area historically known as the Powder River Country on the high plains east of the Bighorn ...
English: This is a locator map showing Powder River County in Montana. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
On March 17, 1876, the Battle of Powder River occurred in the south-central part of the county, about 34 miles (55 km) southwest of Broadus. [5] Powderville was the area's first established settlement; it began operating on November 1, 1878, as the Powder River Telegraph Station on a line connecting Fort Keogh to Deadwood, South Dakota. [6]
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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, a populated place in Natrona County
The Powder River Basin is the largest coal mining region in the US, but most of the coal is buried too deeply to be economically accessible. [4] The Powder River Basin coal beds are shaped like elongated bowls and as mines expand from east to west in the Powder River Basin, they will be going "down the sides of the bowl".
The name Powder River is first recorded in the journals of Peter Skene Ogden without notation of the origin of the name. Explorer Donald Mackenzie likely named the river. . William C. McKay, grandson of John Jacob Astor's partner Alexander MacKay, says that the origin of the name is from the powdery and sandy soil along the shores of the river, from the Chinook Jargon polalle i