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Pacific Springs, which is the first significant feeder into Pacific Creek. After leaving Pacific Creek, the wagon trains entered a dry stretch of the trail with the next good water nearly 40
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Morrow Creek is a left tributary arising in the desert Lucite Hills on the
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310:See also
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