Creek Pioneer Village

Famous quotes containing the words creek, pioneer and/or village:

    “The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
    —State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)

    “Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)