Owl Creek

Owl Creek may refer to:

  • Owl Creek, North Carolina
  • Owl Creek Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming
  • Owl Creek, Wyoming
  • Owl Creek, a firing range at Fort Hood, Texas
  • Owl Creek Quickstep, a song written by American songwriter Dan Emmett
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a short story by Ambrose Bierce (also adapted into a film of the same name)

Famous quotes containing the words owl and/or creek:

    The little owl flew through the night,
    As if the people in the air
    Were frightened and he frightened them,
    By being there....
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    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)