coulie, and camped on the open prairie, about 250 feet from the brush in the coulie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier] Reference

When they reached the foot of Birch coulie they saw the last of Major Brown's command going up the coulie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier] Reference

He went over the spur and down into the valley of the creek from which the coulie branched up, in very bad ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. The Black-Tail Deer] Reference

I strode back; but at my first step they all stood up straight, with their absurd little tails held up in the air, and at the next step away they went, flying off a quarter of a mile and then scattering in the brushy hollows where a coulie headed up into the buttes.    From Wordnik.com.  [III. The Grouse of the Northern Cattle Plains] Reference

We rode up the ravine, carefully examining the soil for nearly half an hour, however; finally, as we passed the mouth of a little side coulie, there was a plunge and crackle through the bushes at its head, and a shabby-looking old bull bison galloped out of it and, without an instant's hesitation, plunged over a steep bank into a patch of rotten, broken ground which led around the base of a high butte.    From Wordnik.com.  [VIII. The Lordly Buffalo] Reference