Well, my alias is pretty simple. I tried to think of the way that nicknames were given in the old west. Often, there would be more than one person with a name, so people would keep them separate by something about that person, or the place they came from, like Texas Jack, Deadwood Dick, Arkansas Tom, or Bitter Creek Newcomb. For generations, the men in my family have had our last name shortened to “Griff”. To differentiate between my father and brother, I identified myself with the area where I live—in the “Coal Creek” area. I’m up at the end of the valley above Coal Creek, on Coal Creek Road. My grandfather had a very “western” sounding name—Jesse Emmitt. I took his full name for that reason. I usually sign my name “CC Griff” because it is short, but, like “Turkey Creek Jack Johnson”, I prefer to go by “Creek Griffith” or just “Creek.”
CC Griff