Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 260 km (160 mi) long, of northeast California flowing southwest to Shasta Lake on the Sacramento River.
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Examples
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By care and frequent examinations we managed to follow his route through without much delay, or discovery by the Indians, and about noon, owing to the termination of the lava formation, we descended into the valley of Hat Greek, a little below where it emerges from the second canon and above its confluence with Pit River.
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Our course was up Pit River, by the lower and upper canons, then across to the Klamath Lakes, then east, along their edge to the upper lake.
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After we had gained the bluff on the other side of the creek, I looked down into the valley of Pit River, and could plainly see the camp of the surveying party.
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Since I relieved Lieutenant Hood on Pit River, nearly a twelvemonth before, they had been my constant companions, and the zeal with which they had responded to every call I made on them had inspired in my heart a deep affection that years have not removed.
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That's when I saw him, staggering down the middle of Stone Coal Road about five miles from the Pit River, when I drove up from behind, and he hitched a ride.
Simmer Time 2009
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That's when I saw him, staggering down the middle of Stone Coal Road about five miles from the Pit River, when I drove up from behind, and he hitched a ride.
Simmer Time 2009
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The connection from the Pit River drainage to Eagle Lake for this interbasin dispersal of trout came from the lower Pit River, an area where redband trout and coastal rainbow trout would be expected to have come into contact and mixed to produce a trout intermediate between coastal rainbow and northern Sacramento redband trout.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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In my 1992 monograph Native Trout of Western North America, I used the subspecies name O. m. stonei to designate all of the northern Sacramento redband trout, qualifying that classification with this statement: I use O. m. stonei only as a practical catchall category to group the great variability found in the McCloud and Pit River drainages.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The connection from the Pit River drainage to Eagle Lake for this interbasin dispersal of trout came from the lower Pit River, an area where redband trout and coastal rainbow trout would be expected to have come into contact and mixed to produce a trout intermediate between coastal rainbow and northern Sacramento redband trout.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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In my 1992 monograph Native Trout of Western North America, I used the subspecies name O. m. stonei to designate all of the northern Sacramento redband trout, qualifying that classification with this statement: I use O. m. stonei only as a practical catchall category to group the great variability found in the McCloud and Pit River drainages.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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