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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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5 wagon road leading westward. Patches of alkali-stricken soil appeared here and there, and I noted one specimen of Cicindela fulgida , true to his habitat. It was now getting dark, and I noted to the southward another “blow-out,” apparently more extensive and more rugged than the one I had visited. It was too dark for photography; I had to content myself with a mere sky-line impression. If the weather had been better I would have camped here, changed my plates, and explored and photographed the region the next day; but a storm threatened, and the distant lightning was so continous and brilliant that I could not trust my blanket as a safe dark-room. So I reluctantly continued my trip. I stopped at a farmhouse to ease my hunger–one of the most insistent, bothersome, desirable featurse of these trips afield. It was too late for the evening meal, so I asked for bread with milk. When I arose refreshed and happy and tried to pay my bill, the farmer refused payment, and when I persisted he delivered his ultimatum: “Now look here, stranger, I won’t take your money; so that’s all there is to that. Just you do as much of somebody else sometime and it’ll all come out even.” A homely and comfortable philosophy which I encountered more than once in this region. The road was not good into Parks , but I managed to get over it in the dark and went to the funny little hotel. I was shown to a room, changed my photographic plates, and descended to view the “squar’ dance”
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Rights
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