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Region of the U.S. state of Wyoming
A view of the Powder River in northern Wyoming
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.
During the late 1860s, the area was the scene of Red Cloud's War, fought between the Lakota peoples and the United States. The Lakota victory in the war resulted in the continuation of their control of the area for the next decade.
After control of the area fell to the U.S. government in the 1870s following the end of the Great Sioux War of 1876–77, the area was opened to white settlement for homesteading. In 1892, the area was the scene of the Johnson County War.
In the early 20th century, the discovery of oil in the area led to the development of the area's oil fields. Coal is also mined.
The PowderRiverCountry is the PowderRiver Basin area of the Great Plains in northeastern Wyoming, United States. The area is loosely defined as that...
The Johnson County War, also known as the War on PowderRiver and the Wyoming Range War, was a range conflict that took place in Johnson County, Wyoming...
The PowderRiver Basin is a geologic structural basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, about 120 miles (190 km) east to west and 200 miles (320 km)...
present-day Central Canada to the Platte River, from Minnesota to the Yellowstone River, including the PowderRivercountry. The Sioux maintain many separate...
treaties with the Lakota Indians who were legally entitled to the PowderRivercountry, through which the trail led, by the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Because...
Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Lakota moved many of their bands to the remote PowderRivercountry in Wyoming and southern Montana. Along the way, they participated...
in the United States. It drains an area historically known as the PowderRiverCountry on the high plains east of the Bighorn Mountains. The stream flows...
(Mo'ȯhtávo'honáéva – ″black-rock-Location″) toward the PowderRiverCountry (Páeo'hé'e – ″gunpowder river″ or ″coal river″). Often they were accompanied by their Totoemanaho...
drawing miners north along the Bozeman and Bridger trails through the PowderRiverCountry and Big Horn Basin respectively. The influx of emigrants and settlers...
hunting grounds west of PowderRiver. In June 1866, Colonel Henry B. Carrington advanced from Fort Laramie into the PowderRivercountry, now the hunting grounds...
Under pressure from the Lakota, the Cheyenne moved west to the PowderRivercountry. The Lakota made the Black Hills their home. Initial United States...
River, Tongue River, and PowderRiver. These rivers form tributaries to the Missouri River. The mainstem of the Yellowstone River is more than 700 miles...
the battle. In the spring of 1866, after the expedition into the PowderRiverCountry, the Pawnee scouts were temporarily disbanded. In March 1867 Major...
reservations. The Cheyenne had migrated west to the Black Hills and PowderRiverCountry before the Lakota and introduced them to horse culture about 1730...
American Natives had used since prehistoric times to travel through PowderRiverCountry. This route was more direct and better watered than any previous...
George W. Bush gambled on surging thousands more troops to the embattled country. It paid off. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is now a diminished force without territory...
the PowderRiverCountry. Black Kettle continued to speak for peace and did not join in the second raid or in the journey to the PowderRivercountry. He...
immediately beginning to prepare an expedition into the PowderRiver and Yellowstone Rivercountry: a column led by col. Nelson Cole coming rom Columbus...
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