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)

    “New pioneer of days and ways, be gone.
    Hunt out your own or make your own alone.
    Go down the street.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “This is the village where the funeral
    Stilted its dusty march over deep ruts
    Up the hillside covered with queen’s lace
    To the patch of weeds known finally to all.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)