snowslide

• “J. O. Wilder, a young surveyor,* wrote, There was one large snowslide at Camp 4, where there were two gangs of Chinese for Tunnels 11 and 12, also a gang of culvert men.”

  Simon & Schuster: Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

• “Back near Cisco, a snowslide knocked out a trestle bridge and caused a blockade.”

  Simon & Schuster: Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

• “It was no bluff; the creature could set off a snowslide in a moment.”

  Phaze Doubt

• “It was like being lowered into a tremendous bowl, whose sides were so steep our every motion threatened to start a snowslide that could bury the foal.”

  Blue Adept

• “On out through another snowbank-and now they were on a long snowslide on the north side of the range.”

  Split Infinity

• “Her passage started a separate snowslide that developed into a minor avalanche.”

  Split Infinity

• “By this time the snowslide had reached the tree, and the mass was now much larger than at first.”

  The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge

• “First you start a snowslide down on us and then you snowball us.”

  The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge

• “Swiftly down the mountain side above them tore the terrible avalanche, a monster formation of ice, snow and rock, the latter loosened and ground off the face of old Chilkoot by the rushing force of the moving snowslide urged on by a mighty wind.”

  A Woman who went to Alaska

• “Twice had the guide called out to them that the very beauty of the day, the sun obscured but not darkened, the softened air, were all favorable to a snowslide or avalanche.”

  Scenes in Switzerland

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