Hell Creek Bottom (Location Key)

This is where the "country road" that leads to Memphis crosses the "swampy creek" with its infernal name (80). The creek itself is bridged, but to reach it the travelers in The Reivers have to cross a muddy morass in the creek bottom. This is cultivated "like a patch" of cotton by the man who lives beside it, and charges cars a fee to pull them out of the mud (84).