What is cooly country?

[jooleyen]

Taking Mark Livesay's course. I take it to mean some undulating terrain probably referring to a specific region, but can someone shed light on this? I'm probably spelling it wrong too.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

coulee

 

[jooleyen]

Thank you! Seen plenty but never knew the name.

 

[manitou1]

Usually hilly prairie with big drainage washes, which can be anywhere from ten to one-hundred feet deep around here. I don't know how to better explain it.

 

[sneaky]

Basically the same as a wadi in the middle east.

 

[Minute_of_Antelope]

Usually hilly prairie with big drainage washes, which can be anywhere from ten to one-hundred feet deep around here. I don't know how to better explain it.

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Huh… never would’ve guessed it

 

[Mt Al]

If I worked for Webster's Dictionary I'd include something like "A coulee is deeper than a gully and shallower than a valley, may be quite long horizontally and is associated with prairie or badlands environments, often with exposed soil or dirt on the sides. The bottoms of coulees are often filled with tumbleweeds blown thither by the relentless winds associated with the environment. During severe thunderstorms, coulees may turn into torrents of rushing water that are deep, fast and wide in a startlingly short period of time." But I don't work for Websters...

Manitou1 has it.

 

[Fatcamp]

If I worked for Webster's Dictionary I'd include something like "A coulee is deeper than a gully and shallower than a valley, may be quite long horizontally and is associated with prairie or badlands environments, often with exposed soil or dirt on the sides. The bottoms of coulees are often filled with tumbleweeds blown thither by the relentless winds associated with the environment. During severe thunderstorms, coulees may turn into torrents of rushing water that are deep, fast and wide in a startlingly short period of time." But I don't work for Websters...

Manitou1 has it.

Got to add in cactus and rattlesnakes, but I like it.

 

[Mt Al]

Got to add in cactus and rattlesnakes, but I like it.

Sound advice! Especially the cactus part. Something like "every place you'd like to sit down on, in or near a coulee you will find cactus. So keep on moving."

 

[Yarak]

Looks like a holler with no trees
Yep you guessed it…We have hills and hollers down here but we don’t have mountains …..just deep hollers