Thanks to the moon, I could see clear down to the creek bottom, all the way to a carpet of pebbles.
At the one end of the field, the land dipped to the creek bottom and the neighbor's property line.
He turned up over a saddle in the Mustangs and into a creek bottom.
Once it did, natives started to come out of the creek bottom in groups of two and three.
He rode to the rear of the column and then back to the creek bottom.
Carr thought he might be returning to the creek bottom to get some of his family or friends.
After passing through the creek bottom, Carr left the trail he had been following.
The course extended a mile straight away down the creek bottom.
Small abandoned gold mines can be found in creek bottoms throughout the area.
He had been longer in the creek bottom than he realized.