Palouse

[ puh-loos ]

/ pəˈlus /

a river in NW Idaho and SW Washington, flowing W and S to the Snake River. 140 miles (225 km) long.

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The Palouse country.A branch into the Palouse country would have more to recommend it.
A Report on Washington Territory|William Henry Ruffner
Specimens from the central valleys of the Cascades may be called morphna and those from the Palouse country montana, at pleasure.
The Birds of Washington (Volume 1 of 2)|William Leon Dawson
It is on the Palouse River, in a narrow valley where there is scarcely room for a town.
A Report on Washington Territory|William Henry Ruffner
Passing into Washington, we find an account of the origin of the falls of Palouse River and of certain native tribes.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 3|Hubert Howe Bancroft

They bought grain in the Palouse district and along Snake river.
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 (of 2)|William Denison Lyman