R.B. Ricketts and F.L. Ricketts falls and the lower Glen Leigh drops — the man who named them all, and how nearly every fall carries the name of a Native nation.
Down through the middle of Glen Leigh now, and this one carries the man's own name. This is R.B. Ricketts Falls, thirty-six feet, named for the Colonel himself. You passed his kin up near the top, at F.L. Ricketts Falls, and just below here is B. Reynolds, which brings in Elizabeth's family again.
That's the pattern on this whole staircase: a few falls for family and friends, and most of them for the Native nations Boone told you about. One man, walking this glen with a list of names, more than twenty of them, deciding what each drop of water would be called for the next hundred and fifty years.
Keep descending carefully. Your legs are tired now, and this is the stretch where a lot of people stop watching their feet. We're coming down to the last few falls.
Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0
