Coulees

The country people sell the wood; they send it down the slopes, which are called coulees, locally, and which lead down to the plain, and there they stack it into piles, which they sell thrice a year to the wood merchants. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)

These are known as coulees, and sometimes from these coulees cinder cones arise. ❋ John Wesley Powell (1868)

She has knuckles like my grandfather had, black hair in the coulees, and my throw up in her head hair. ❋ Michael Seidel (2011)

If you spook one herd, you just go over a few more coulees and catch up with them or find another herd. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The region is a flat to gently rolling plain with exposed bedrock and sandstone cliffs where the Red River Valley has carved an exceptionally eroded badlands of coulees, gulches, mesas and buttes, knife-edges and capped pinnacles (hoodoos) from the layers of light multi-colored rocks of the valley. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the end of the last Ice Age 13,000 years ago, a sheet of glacial ice 600m thick eroded the upper layers of rock, and huge meltwater rivers carved the Red Deer river valley with its badlands of coulees, mesas and buttes, out of the soft rock, exposing this great concentration of fossil-bearing sediments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Open grassland and coulees provide a habitat for pronghorn antelope. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sprays of silver-green graced the coulees where the Russian olives grew. ❋ Barbara Wright (2007)

The gulches and the coulees were filled with snow to depths of a hundred feet or more, leveling with the land. ❋ DEE BROWN (2007)

She watched the country slip by them, the cows bunched in the coulees, a tree of lightning pulsing in the clouds. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)

I was not sure where I was, but the woods were hung with air vines, the oaks and swamp maples and persimmon trees widely spaced, the coulees layered with yellow and black leaves. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)

If you ever visit [Grand Coulee Dam], stay overnight in [Electric City] and be sure to catch the colored [lightshow] on the spillways after dark. ❋ Rod Brock (2007)

Joe misses a 3 foot [putt] Joe: [God damnit] Coulee!!!!!!! Next hole Joe : Coulee gave me a triple [bogey]. ❋ Yamanashi Godzilla (2011)

[Mae]: Sally, "what are you doing for your birthday?" Sally: "I'm gonna have a party [at the beach]." Mae: "[Coulee]!" ❋ Coulee (2005)

There I was, snorting some coke off a [hooker's] [asscrack] when I noticed her coulee smiling back. Damn, it’s hotter than a fat coulee [up in here]. ❋ Jay West (2006)

[god] [this is] so grand coulee ❋ Ashley_123 (2008)

[The hole] [called] Grand Coulee Dam ❋ Jjj4321 (2009)