Locust Creek

Famous quotes containing the words locust and/or creek:

“Who knows what sort of seventeen-year locust will next come out of the ground?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)