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Snake River

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The largest tributary of the Columbia River, flowing in a broad arc through Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Washington and carving Hells Canyon, one of the deepest river gorges in North America. It was a key route for nineteenth-century westward migration along the Oregon Trail.

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