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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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7 miles. Crossing the Republican River, I stopped to take a photograph to the north from the bridge, showing some high sandhills in the distance cut into by the river. My map showed COLFER, in plain, honest print, as lying a few miles west, and I figured on getting breakfast there. Colfer proved to be eight feet long, bar-ways, sable on a field argent, supported by pillars gules dexter and sinister, the whole rampant on a field vert– alfalfa in this instance. Just a label, without any town to go with it. My trivial mind formulated some absurdity about the “first Colfer breakfast,” but aside from a passing and lonesome smile at the conceit I got no comfort out of it. So I visited a farmhouse, where I got a good breakgast–muskmelons and sass and other frille in addition to the substantials. The farm was well kept and the people intelligent and courteous. I enjoyed talking over conditions in the region, and received definite information regarding Trail Canyon, which lies a few miles west. I was told how to cut across to enter its upper reaches newar the Kansas line, whence I might follow it down to the railroad crossing, and these directions proved useful. While on my way across country to the head of the canyon, I found a western meadowlark which was surprisingly tame, and on following it up I discovered that it had been injured in the breast. It was able to fly short distances and to run freely, and as it appeared quite normal except on close examination I took a photograph of it as it ran along the grass ahead of me.
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Rights
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