Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich Willow Creek gold mines, bituminous coal fields and Matanuska Valley agricultural district are all located within 50 miles of Anchorage...
...only under the trees in the long grasses wet with the creek that little pockets of coolness were to be found. So, having run down the hill and across the meadow that lay stretched, still and beaten, in the burning gold of the summer afternoon, she flung herself on the bank in a final rush. Gulping and panting, she raised her small body cautiously and listened. But not a sound of pursuit murmured from the far hill...
...Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, California and elsewhere, sportsmen who hunt with bow & arrow have long had their own game preserves, where no guns are allowed. Last week the Oregon State legislature set aside the biggest bow & arrow sanctuary in the U.S.-the Canyon Creek Preserve, 200 sq. mi. near the centre of the State, where cougar, grizzlies, deer and small game abound...
...gallery's favorite but Norias Annie's trainer, Chesley Harris, insisted that his bitch had a good chance to win two years running. The most famed woman pointer fancier in the U. S., Mrs. Nina Billingslea of Tulsa, Okla., had a good bitch entered, Spunky Creek Joann. Snow and sleet delayed the start three days, pleased Willard Gay of Meriden, Conn., who had brought his family 1,000 miles to see what happened. Two setters disgraced themselves on the same day: W. D. Albright's Silvermont which was taken up after two hours and Carl Dufield...
Bald-headed Miles Spencer went turkey hunting one morning before day. An owl saw his bald head and flew down, caught Mr. Spencer in the bald spot. Place, Nails Creek. Tenn...