Miners rushed here and set to work in the gulches inland, but it was not till the summer of 1899 that gold was found on the beach.

Hardly a day passed without some "prairie schooner" (the canvas-covered wagon of the squatter) creaking into our corral; and the quiet gulches and cañons where Ajax and I had shot quail and deer began to re-echo to the shouts of the children of the rough folk from the mid-West and Missouri.

The hills rose out of the haze, bleak and bare, seamed with gulches, a safe sanctuary for all wild things.

After a stiff climb we came out upon a mossy tableland, intersected by several deep gulches, down which tumbled rapid glacial streams from many perpetual snow banks.

The road goes abruptly downhill to the railway track, first between deep red gulches, and then between rows of negro cabins, each with its garden of rosebushes, now (early April) in full bloom.

The deep sides of the gulches were draped with pendent lantana branches full of purple flowers, or, more beautiful still, with a profusion of fragrant white honeysuckle.

The next day we crossed two small oases, little gulches watered from the melting snow of Coropuna.

Snow lay in the gulches and ravines near the top of the mountain.

The hills west of the lake are intersected by a few dry gulches in which are caves that have been used as burial places.

Here the ancient builders constructed three great terraces, which extend one above another for a third of a mile across the hill between two deep gulches.

As we followed the faint little trail across the gulches tributary to the river Pampaconas, we had to negotiate several unusually steep descents and ascents.

Leaving this convoy at Fond-du-Lac, he pushed his way on to the Mississippi, alone and friendless, and, falling in with a party of trappers at St. Louis, accompanied them when they returned to the mountain "gulches" in which their business lay.

The little whirlwinds of the gulches seized the leaves and danced with her too, the birches and aspens tossed their hands, and rising ever higher and wilder and more elf-like came the mocking cadences of her laughter.

At the bottom of the hill there were two tracks, both of which led round among the gulches or tideholes, only by different ways and to different points, and it was here that Katherine knew she would be at fault.

"Now, what do you think had best be donepush straight forward or take one of these other gulches?" "They seem to run back almost the same line as that ye have been following," Dick said.

For this wind came first from the sea, rubbing against its fresh, briny waves, then distilled through the redwoods, threading rich ferny gulches, and spreading itself in broad undulating currents over many a flower-enameled ridge of the coast mountains, then across the golden plains, up the purple foot-hills, and into these piny woods with the varied incense gathered by the way.

This was at the head of a small stream and there were several small gulches that emptied into it that paid well.

The point we were seeking to reach was a new discovery called Gold Lake on Feather River, where many rich gulches that emptied into it had been worked, and the lake was believed to have at least a ship load of gold in it.

On the horizon was a bank of fog, outlined with the crests and slopes and gulches of the mountain beside him.

The gorges and gulches below them, usually dry, break out in loud uproar, with a sudden downrush of muddy, boulder-laden floods.

In dry gulches and on taluses and sun-beaten crags are sparsely scattered yuccas, cactuses, agave, etc.

In the most barren cliffs and gulches there dwell a multitude of lesser animals, well-dressed, clear-eyed, happy little beastswood-rats, kangaroo-rats, gophers, wood-mice, skunks, rabbits, bob cats, and many others, gathering food, or dozing in their sun-warmed dens.

Casey had made camp that night in one of several deep gulches that ridged the butte with two peaks.

I thought I could find water in some of the gulches, however, so I climbed a certain ridge and sat down to rest and examine the canyon beneath with that old telescope Babe plays with.

She kept to the gulches until she was too far away to be seen in the sage, even when a squaw was squinting sharp-eyed after her.