Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Acee Blue Eagle. Publicity-wise, that official hunted down a tall, husky Amerindian, persuaded him to exchange his grey business suit for a red blanket and a headdress of blue-&-white feathers. To newshawks, Acee Blue Eagle explained that he was not only a great-grandson of famed Creek Chief William Mclntosh but newly elected head of the art department at Bacone College near Muskogee, Okla. A first-rate tribal artist. Blue Eagle won fourth place in the 1932 Olympic exhibition for his water colors and drawings of Indian athletes. When his well-to-do family lost its money...
Alabama: rebuilding storm sewers in Montgomery; malaria control in Mobile; cleaning the Cahaba River in Bibb County; steel bridge over Copeland Creek in Madison; double treatment asphalt street paving in Greenville; improving cemetery drives in Gadsden; a reform school in Mt. Meigs; a swimming pool in Columbiana...
...Otero sent them to Notre Dame, again to St. Louis University, where they enjoyed the city but did not attend classes. When 19-year-old Miguel returned to New Mexico, armed warfare had broken out between the Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads, fighting for the Chicken Creek Route in strategic Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad strike of 1879, when the strikers took...
...some time to get mail from the States. From Fairbanks, the northern terminal of the railroad, the mail is carried by auto (weather permitting) to Chatanika, about 30 mi.; from there to Circle, about 130 mi., it is carried by horses, a five-day trip; from Circle to Coal Creek, almost 55 mi., the mail is carried by dog team up the Yukon River, in 2¼ days. The dog team has been on time every week this winter, even in snow storms or 50°-below-zero weather. Due to the difficulty in getting the horses over the pass...
Torrents poured in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Down went the flood waters of Cherry Creek to Denver. Down went swollen Fountain Creek at Colorado Springs, rolling eight feet deep in the residential section, drowning a man and woman on the roof of their sedan. The floods spread to Colorado's Sugar Bowl, rushed into Nebraska by way of the South Platte and Republican Rivers. The hamlets of Max and Parks vanished entirely. At McCook, home of Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished...