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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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8 A shiny black grasshopper attracted my attention here. The first one I saw out of the corner of my eye, and took to be a cricket; but when it got under way it flew a rod instead of hopping a foot. So I investigated, and collected a number. It proved to be very common, but I had never before encountered the species. I also photographed one of the peculiar and clearing common to the plains area. Vegetatin about the “hill” in the center is entirely absent for a distance of several feet. Some of these openings are ten feet in diameter; the one photographed was about six feet. A photograph was taken of the broken country above the head of the canyon, which gives a fair idea of the region. The faunal and floral conditions are distinctly of the plains type. A number of “draws” converge, draining a considerable area into Trail Canyon, which has no running stream, but which is evidently subject to the action of a considerable flow of water at certain seasons. The characteristic plant of these upper draws–in their centers, where moisture stays longest–is Euphorbia marginata , the common “snow-on-the-mountains,” and the thousands of these plants with white-margined leaves were quite attractive. Trail Canyon, or Corral Canyon, is about four miles long. A dry creekbed of mixed sand and gravel lies between sheer walls from 20 to 40 feet in height. It is generally not over 60 or 75 feet
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Rights
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