Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wagons, bought their first car. Then Fred Dankowske had an inspiration. He designed a motor caravan, paid International Harvester Co. $800 to build it. A two-cylinder high-wheeler, it contained a stove and a folding bed. When the Dankowskes wanted a bath, they dunked themselves in a creek...
Emigrant Train (1870) by Samuel Colman (see cut, p. 63). "A train of Conestoga wagons is shown fording Medicine Bow Creek, near Laramie, Wyoming...
...struck out through driftwood for the shore, he figured it out. Clear Creek Bayou, a peaceful Mississippi stream in dry weather, was on the rampage, had washed clear away the centre section of a concrete highway bridge. While he stumbled back through the underbrush to the highway, other cars zoomed smoothly up to the bridge-and vanished. Frantically he tried to flag three others. Their drivers ignored the dripping, scarecrow figure and sped on into the void. Each time there followed a single booming splash, sometimes a few hoarse shouts and screams...
Katherine Anne Porter is a newcomer to this group. Born in Indian Creek, Texas 44 years ago, the great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone, she was educated in Louisiana convents, worked for New Orleans and Manhattan newspapers, has lived in Paris, Majorca, Berlin, Vienna, Mexico City, where Calles' official cameraman used her shapely legs as models for a cinema short on shoes. In 1931 she went to Berlin on a Guggenheim Fellowship, met Göring, Goebbels, Hitler, whom she considers "detestable and dangerous," moved to Paris, where she lived for five years. Last year she divorced her first...
...about the present age; a writer needs "the perspective of years to know what most of it amounts to-if anything." Not because his theory is necessarily correct, but because he has written good U. S. historical romances (Drums, Long Hunt, et al.), readers will be glad that Bitter Creek returns to the past. Set in the West of the '70s, it is a historical close-up which confirms James Boyd's high stand in the historical-romance industry...