dry-gulch

On this road was a bridge over Dry Gulch, which was in the spring a roaring torrent.

At times the dry gulch would hold a roaring torrent, although now it was no more than a gash in the bank.

Toward evening, at the bottom of a little dry gulch some eight feet deep, the horses decided it was a suitable place to stay.

Suddenly, like the roar of a flashflood that is just rounding the bend of a dry gulch, the syllables struck him.