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Title
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Dundy, Hitchcock, Redwillow, Furnas Counties, 1912
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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321301-191
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Transcription
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3 closely covered with vegetation. Cultivation here even on the uplands rarely bares a surface sufficiently sandy to blow appreciably, whereas in the northern area most breaking of the surface is likely to result in the formation of a “blow-out,” the sand being so pure and shifting so readily that it will not stay on the job long enough for crops to get started, though if once established the moisture content is genrally enough to maintain them through the season after a fashion. In the northern area a “blow-out” is a deep pit, generally on the northern or western slope of a sandhill, which the winds “mill” out to a depth of 50 or 60 feet, the diameter being perhaps 100 by 200 feet. And now I was to learn what is called a “blow-out” in this southern area. I came upon it from the southern end. It covered perhaps 30 or 40 acres, depressed from 20 to 40 feet below the general level of the surrounding country. Its general direction was north and south, it being twice or thrice as long as wide. Its origin seemed distinctly due to water erosion, with the wind playing a negligible part. A pond several acres in extent occupied the space near the southern end, and in this several cottonwood trees, 12 inches or more in diameter, were growing, indicating that if the pond is present continuously it is doubless generally of much smaller area; in fact, in southwestern Nebraska this has been the wettest summer in many years. The surface of the entire depression was generously vegetated, except for a dry creekbed and lesser drainage areas. At the southeatern end of the
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Rights
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