A Great Basin Quote for You...

"The condition of the rivers of Nevada was once curiously accounted for by an old mountaineer and prospector, He told me: 'The way it came about was in the wise" The Almighty, at the time he was creatin and fashionin' of this here yearth, got along to this section late on Saturday evening. He had finished all the great lakes, like Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and then - had made the Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, and as a sort of wind-up was about to make a river that would be far ahead of anything he had yet done in that line. So he started in and traced out Humboldt River, and Truckee River, and Walker River and Reese River and all the other rivers, he was leadin' of them along, calkerlatin' to bring 'em all together into one big boss river and then lead that off and let it empty into the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of California, as might be most convenient; but as he was bringin' down and leadin' along the several branches -- the Truckee, Humboldt, Carson, Walker, and them -- it came on dark and instead of trying to carry out the original plan, he just tucked the lower ends of the several streams in to the ground, whar they have remained from that day to this."