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Updated: April 30, 2025

Crusett one of our hands Stayed two years & traded with the Mahars a Short distance above is a Creek the out let of Three Ponds comunicateing with each other, those Ponds or rether Lakes are fed by Springs & Small runs from the hills. a large Sand Island opposit this Creek makeing out from the L. Point, from the Camp of last night to this Creek, the river has latterly Changed its bed incroaching on the L. Side, in this Sand bar I Saw great Nos. of wild gees- passed a Small Creek on the L. S about 3 miles above the last both of those Creek's are out lets from the Small Lake which reive their water from the Small Streems running from the high land- great many Pamey Stones on the Shore of various Sises the wind blew hard- Reed a man who went back to Camp for his knife has not joined us. we camped at a Beaver house on the L. S.one Buck Killed to day-

William Clark - The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

I've thrown a stick in up above, and it simply whisks over and gets sucked underneath the curtain of water at once, and disappears altogether until it reaches the smooth water, ever so far down." "Say you went over yourself?" "Wouldn't be much left of you," Jim answered, with a laugh. "The bed of the creek's simply full of rocks you can see a spike sticking up here and there in the rapids.

Mary Grant Bruce - A Little Bush Maid

Thet creek's norrer but hit's deep beyond fordin'. We needs must swim our mules acros't." Brent shuddered at the sight of the chill water but Bud went on inexorably. "Now, ye've got ter start as fur up es ye handily kin because ther current's swift an' if hit carries yer beyond thet small bend ye comes out in quicksand. Jest foller me. I'll go fust."

Charles Neville Buck - A Pagan of the Hills

At the count of fifty he turned to the left, heading directly into the creek's mouth. He could hear the steady beat of Orvil's motor. When he estimated he had covered the proper distance, he stopped and let Scotty catch up with him. He put a hand on his pal's shoulder and pressed down, a signal to hold position.

Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin - The Flying Stingaree

"Dentists don't have to figger on ilecloth." "Say, Yan," said Sam aside, "guess you better tackle Da about the dam. Kind o' sot up about ye this mornin'; your eddication has softened him some, an' it'll last till about noon, I jedge. Strike while the iron is hot." So after breakfast Yan commenced: "Mr. Raften, the creek's running dry.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

Sence de creek's been up I haint been able to git across, and dere's piles o' letters to go ober to-day." "It must make it rather bad for the company when the creek rises in this way," said Harry. "Dat's so," answered Miles. "Dey gits in a heap o' trubble when dey can't send dere letters and git 'em. Though 'taint so many letters dey sends as telegraphs."

Frank Richard Stockton - What Might Have Been Expected

He had made her wise in woodcraft, and she could tell at the lake's margin or along the creek's bed the tracks of the 'coon, like the prints of a baby's foot, the mink's twin pads, or the sharp imprint of the hoofs of the deer. One day another track was noted near the camp, a track resembling that of a small man, shoeless, and Harlson informed her that a bear had been about.

Stanley Waterloo - A Man and a Woman

What wonderful, marvelous, undaunted characters they must have been, men with wills of inflexible steel, to overcome such obstacles and dare such hardships. Yet there were compensations. Squaw Creek's clear, pellucid, snow-fed stream runs purling, babbling or roaring and foaming by to the right. These pioneers with their women and children had crossed the sandy, alkali and waterless deserts.

George Wharton James - The Lake of the Sky: Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter

The water ran so deep at the creek's side that we were able to moor the Flamingo right up against the bank, and, when I had jumped ashore and greeted my friends, and the "King" had executed a brief characteristic fantasia on the manifest advantages of having a hidden pirate's creek in the family, he unfolded his plans, or rather that portion of them that was necessary at the moment.

Richard Le Gallienne - Pieces of Eight : Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903

"Just look on the other side of that crooked tree, and you'll glimpse a little bar that juts out. That must be on the upper side of the creek's mouth; because Paul said bars nearly always form there. How about that, Paul?"

George A. Warren - The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat: or, the Secret of Cedar Island