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Title
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Thomas County, July 3-11, July 27-30, 1911
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Date
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July 3-11, July 27-30, 1911
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Narratives
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Identifier
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321301-1911-0156.jpg
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Transcription
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27 … … the wing might heal; at least, this was the reasoning we indulged in to avoid the painful alternative of killing the bird. Various detail photographs were taken to show characteristic flowers or grasses of this region. The first photograph on this page shows a typical clump of Muhlenbergia pungens , [sandhill muhly, grass] on the north side of a blow-out which was gradually filling in. This is a valuable grass to arrest the shifting of the sand, and the stocky, combed-up appearance of the specimen pictured is characteristic. About it may be seen scattered stalks of Redfieldia flexuosa , [vasey, blowout grass] another valuable blowout grass. — At the foot of this page is shown still another grass, Bromus brizae formis , in fruit. — The photograph on page 25 shows the typical sandhill milkweed, Asclepias arenaria; [whitestem milkweed] this specimen, spreading about 24 inches from tip to tip of the stalks, was in the same decadent blow-out as the grass shown above on the this page. Note the “lumber grasshopper” in the shadow of the milk-weed leaves, just left of the base; this was their favorite manner of passing the hot part of the day. — The photograph of one of the common “bunch grasses” of this region, Andropogon scoparius , [little bluestem] on page 19, shows the
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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