We had come up the Mississippi's east side, and now he swung crosscurrent, heading for the cutbank of the west-convexing bend just above the structures of Old River. |
A hundred yards from his objective he dismounted, removed his spurs, and crawled stealthily toward the rim of the cutbank. |
The deer had leaped from a cutbank onto the sand, had whirled around in several sharp turns, and had run into the adjacent brush. |
It was the Pu-nak-ik-si, or cutbank River, so named on account of the rock walls on both sides of the lower part of its valley. |
At the time the people moved up here on cutbank, he had been married but a short time. |
Radiocarbon ages are not available for the cutbank deposits adjacent to the point bar that produced the Arctodus humerus. |