But his glance followed the gulch up for half a mile and found no sign of life.
Riding behind the tame bad man, Jim cut across the hills to a gulch and followed it till the ravine ran out in a little valley.
The boy clambered down to the bed of the gulchand limped toward them.
He could find a temporary hiding-place up any gulch under cover of the matted brush.
I got wounded an' Jim here went up a gulch lickety-split to catch the red devils.
Well, he's holed up in a little gulch runnin' into it.
From the rock walls of the gulch came to them booming echoes of rifles in action.
When you got yore pill in the laig you made me ride up the gulch alone.
A faint sound, almost indistinguishable, echoed up the gulchto him.
There's a gulch back of it that leads to old man Roubideau's place," explained Prince.
There was no wagon-road up the gulch and it would have been difficult to get the buckboard in as far as the fork over the broken terrain.
He was lost, and a little scared, when Wunpost stopped in a gulch and showed him a neat pile of rocks.
A procession of Indian wagons was filing up the gulch to haul water from Wild Rose Spring and already the first tent of what would soon be a city was set up opposite the point.
But even at that he was taking a chance, or so at least it seemed, for the look in the Apache's eye as he had limped off up the gulch reminded Wunpost of a broken-backed rattlesnake.
On the morning of the flood, January 19th, all the Feather and Yuba landscapes were covered with running water, muddy torrents filled every gulch and ravine, and the sky was thick with rain.
The hills have been cut and scalped, and every gorge and gulch and valley torn to pieces and disemboweled, expressing a fierce and desperate energy hard to understand.
On they rushed through everygulch and hollow, leaping, gliding, working with a will, and rejoicing like living creatures.
The cliff formed by the abrupt ending of a little gulchwas laced with stately pines, all clad in a heavy garment of snow.
Here the gulch made a square turn, affording a fine view of the country through a window-like opening.
One goes up a gulch or creek while the other follows an adjacent creek, and they have a perfect understanding.
He may be nestled in a gulch just big enough to hold him, either sound asleep or leisurely chewing his cud.
He had been following several black-tail deer into a gulch when the storm overtook him, and he sought out a spot which was somewhat protected from the wind.
The little gulch was a natural enclosure formed by a sudden turn of the creek, and fenced with a thorny thicket of wild plum and buffalo-berry bushes.
Beaver Dam huddles into a gloomygulch at the foot of a vast, overhanging mountain.
In Rex Gulch as much as eight ounces of gold have been taken out by one man in a single day.
Late in the afternoon I return and go up a little gulch just above this creek, about 200 yards from camp, and discover the ruins of two or three old houses, which were originally of stone laid in mortar.
Then I wander away around to the left, up a little gulch and along benches, climbing from time to time, until I reach an altitude of nearly 2,000 feet and can get no higher.
But this gulch has its side gulches, and as the summit is approached a group of radiating canyons is found.
This and the fires in the gulch opposite and our own flaming torches light up little patches that make more manifest the awful darkness below.
There is not a trail but what they know; every gulch and every rock seems familiar.
Still, on we go for an hour or two, and at last we see Captain Bishop coming up the gulch with a huge torchlight on his shoulders.
A narrow gulch is cut into the wall of the main canyon.
They know every rock and every ledge, every gulch and canyon, and just where to wind among these to find a pass; and their knowledge is unerring.
Follow this up and the climb is rapid, as if going up a mountain side, for the gulch heads but a few hundred or a few thousand yards from the wall.
It is nearly a thousand feet to the top of the granite; so it will be impossible to carry our boats around, though we can climb to the summit up a sidegulch and, passing along a mile or two, descend to the river.
Soon we leave the gulch and climb a long ridge which winds around to the right toward the summit of the great table.
When a storm bursts over the canyon a side gulch is dangerous, for a sudden flood may come, and the inpouring waters will raise the river so as to hide the rocks.
Doubtless, if we could spare the time for the search, we should find a gulch up which they ran.
Passing the bog, our way is up a gulch at the foot of the Pink Cliffs, which form the escarpment, or wall, of the great plateau.
In Keeley's Gulch was the man who could tell him, the man who had ruined his home and his life.
Her story was hidden there in Keeley's Gulch with Bignold, and he was galloping hard to reach his foe.
The shanty in the gulch did not seem to be much of a rendezvous for secret meetings.
From the gulch covert, the wiry marshal rode first.
The line of the Union troops stretched from Hawk Run to Bull Gulch and Buck Lick Junction, the right resting on Hawk Run and the left at or near the Junction, the center in heavy timber quite a distance farther south than either flank.
The Valley was dry, bone-dry and desiccated, and yet every hill, every gulch and wash and canyon, showed the action of torrential waters.
Wiley rolled into a gulch and peered over the bank, his eyes starting out of his head with fear; and then, as the lantern began to bob below him, he turned and crept up the hill.
Up the gulchwas another sign, still pointing on and up, and stamped through the metal of the disk was the single word: Water.
A great deal of water had flowed down the gulch since he had advised her to keep her stock, but the assayer at Vegas was worse than negligent--he had not reported on the piece of white rock.
He could only grind his teeth and curse Sweet Briar gulch from the deepest pot-hole in the bed-rock to the top of its loftiest pine.
He looked at the hollow of the gulch and cursed it manfully and bitterly.
He drew out her photograph, and obtained much sweet consolation by thinking how happy they two would be in Sweet Briar gulch together, even if there wasn't a cent of pay in the gravel.
As soon as reinforcements arrived we deployed on either side of a gulch or canon, with our horses hidden away among the rocks and timber in charge of horse-holders.
The news of our fight soon spread up and down the gulch and many were the willing hands that offered their services in the burial of James Morgan, our teamster.
Charles Watt and Irwin Baker built a cabin in a gulch some miles distant from where Cripple Creek now stands.
They wheeled and came tumbling back up the gulch in great confusion, and all the time subjected to our fire.
The gulch was dotted with miners' cabins and dug-outs.
We were unnoticed, because we left no tracks in the gulchand had deployed some distance below.
Once more the gray burro ambled up the gulchbearing the dwarfish mayordomo, but this time on a mission of peace.
A lofty upheaved ledge of red sandstone was this, which arose from the slopes on either hand, and shut in the gulch from the plain below, leaving only a narrow portal for the passage of the stream.
They had little trouble in doing this, and after a pleasant climb reached the top through a gulch at an altitude above the river of 3200 feet.
They left us early, with friendly demonstrations, and went on their way towards Kanab, while we moved to another spring in a gulch farther up the valley, where we made a tent out of a pair of blankets to keep off the snow.
In turning a bend we saw back through a gulch the summit of the Kaibab's huge cliffs, the total height above our heads being over five thousand feet; a sublime vista.
I prevented his turning and we continued up a gulch a mile or two, where it narrowed till we could barely proceed.
Around the fire we rolled big stones for seats, and soon had the gulch in a homelike condition.
At thegulch we deemed the correct one, no road or trail being visible, we turned late in the afternoon to the left and rapidly mounted higher, with the fresh snow growing correspondingly deeper till it was about two feet on the level.
Nell ran down about a mile and a half to the mouth of a gulch on the right where he and the Major had traced the old trail.
On the edge of night traces of water were found in a gulch near the foot of Trumbull, and while Jack and a new member of our force, Will Johnson of Kanab, dug for more, Prof.
Up a gulch on the right we could see a remarkable topographic feature, nothing less than a gigantic aperture, or natural arch, in the cliff.
Up in a high gulch some pine trees were visible, and Jack and I climbed up to them and collected several pounds of gum for repairing the boats.
Besides it was impossible, they told me, to cross the gulch ahead.
Just above the ford the creek meandered through a flat-bottomed gulch that was about two hundred feet wide with precipitous banks about fifteen feet high.
The north bank of the gulch had an incline of about forty-five degrees to the level of the prairie.
I have never heard of there being one, either at Camp’s Gulch or Roseneath,” Gertrude replied.
Here’s an engine standing in the depot with steam up; we could be at Camp’s Gulch in twenty minutes or half an hour at the outside, if only we’d got a driver.
Camp’s Gulch was in a state of bustle and activity, which bespoke great business activity.
Camp’s Gulch was a great base for supplies, and although it looked so desolate, and lay so solitary among the hills, those hills yet teemed with life of a strange, rough sort.
I have been to see a sick man at Goat’s Gulch, and I lost my way in returning to Camp’s Gulch depot; can you direct me, if you please?
Did it mean that the supplies for Camp’s Gulch had got on to the Roseneath cars by mistake?
They have sent me word from Lytton that there is trouble at Camp’s Gulch, and are asking if the Roseneath engine has gone; if not, I am to send it to Camp’s Gulch at once.
I will go up to Camp’s Gulch and see Mrs. Peters to-morrow.
Or I'll seek the gulch deserted And dream of the wild Red man, And I'll build a cot on a corner lot And get rich as soon as I can.
The filthy little Irish youngsters from Dublin Gulch are much brighter and more clever in every way than the ordinary American children who are less filthy.
Sometimes in these spring days when I walk miles down into the country to the little wet gulch of the sweet-flags, I wonder why it is that this thing does not make me happy.
I heard him say he'd been over to the Dizzy Gulch diggings before he drifted in here," volunteered a miner with a very red mustache.
If Dizzy Gulch is no good we've found something better.
Show 'em how the lads from Dizzy Gulch can handle a crowd of gamblers and thieves!
The result is that if a laurel gets a foothold in a gulch through which water occasionally flows, lines of young laurels will eventually cover the banks of the gulch as far down stream as conditions are favorable.
Some days later, when we visited the gulch again, we came upon a surprise.
The sides of the gulch were "gophered" with prospect holes, most of them very shallow, with little mounds of dirt beside them, like the graves of dead hopes.
At last in desperation, the trapper took two more traps to the gulch and vowed that he'd pull up stakes and leave the bear alone if he did not get him with the set he purposed making.
The Virginian soon decided to move slowly along for the present, preventing the wild horses from passing down the gulch again, but otherwise saving his own animal from useless fatigue.
Presently the trail wound into a sultry gulch that hemmed in the heat and seemed to draw down the sun's rays more vertically.
Of course Carmack had to put his wife's relations in next to him on discovery; and when the crowd got up from Forty Mile they staked on Boulder Gulch and Adams Gulch.
When the last man had disappeared among the timber below, he arose from his seat and wandered towards the wooded gulch to the north of the Dome, which he had partly explored in the days of his convalescence.
For the story of the discovery of Franklin Gulch I am indebted to Mr. William Hartz, who also furnished the accounts of the finding of gold in the Stewart River.
