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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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4 depression were hills of nearly pure sand, and here the vegetation characteristic of the sanhil area north was found; “bunch-grass,” yucca, the bush morning-glory, and species of Psoralea and Euphorbia above the crest, with Redfieldia flexuosa and Phaca longifolia in the active sand. I was interested to note the abscence of Muhlengergia pungens , a grasss which certainly would be present in a smilar area north; I did not find it anywere in the southern area. Sand lizards, a pugnacious Bembex in numbers, and several specimens of Cicindela formosa-generosa gave to this particular point the faunal aspect of the northern area; but none other like it was found in this “blow-out,” and in fact few pure sand areas were found in the portions of Dundy County which I visited. Cicindela cuprascens was common near the water’s edge, and C. punctulata was abundant on a belt lying betwen the moist border of the pond and the sand slopes above. Several butterflies attracted my attention– Lycaena comyntas , Euptoieta claudia , Nathalis iole , Anosia plexippus , and Aenea andria –the latter being quite numerous, but so wary that I did not take a specimen. At the northern end of the “blow-out” was visible a confused mass of erosion pillars and cones–“cores,” they are called locally–and I visited that area. These cones stand about 20 feet high, and remind one of the band lands formation of Sioux County . Leaving the “blow-out” after covering it thoroughly, I took to the
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