Tin Dog Creek (31°15′S 117°03′E / 31.250°S 117.050°E / -31.250; 117.050) is a small watercourse in Dowerin, Western Australia.
The name is said to have come from gold miners travelling to the Yilgarn goldfields who called their tinned beef "tinned dog" and would discard tins at the creek.
Famous quotes containing the words tin, dog and/or creek:
“J.P. Harrah: What the hell are you doin’ here?
Cole: I’m lookin’ at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
“A dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“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)