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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 230 km (140 mi) long, rising in northwest Idaho and flowing west and south to the Snake River in southeast Washington. It runs through a region of fertile hills and prairies known as the Palouse.
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The Palouse River; known to the traders also as Pavion
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It was a beautiful morning, just after sunrise, so if I never got a deer, it would still be worth the nice walk along the top of the picturesque basalt cliffs above the Palouse River.
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Two types of horse are identifiably Indian: the appaloosa, historically identified with the Palouse River in Washington, and the cayuse.
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