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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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9 in width, but in places spreads out to as many yards. There is no rock in its walls in the lower portion of its extent, but the soil is a consistency which leaves the walls perpendicular under the erosive influences to which they are subjected. The accompanying photographs will give a fair idea of the canyon. The Russian thistle grows everywhere here, in places almost covering the steep walls. During the days of the “Texas Trail,” when cattle were driven north and south with the seasons, this natural corral was much used, and its present-day names have come down from that period. I spent a good deal of time in the canyon, though it was oppressively hot. To lighten my load, I had eliminated articles which I really needed, notably a canteen and a poncho. The canteen was missed especially during this portion of the trip; from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. I had no opportunity to drink, and when I finally emerged from the canyon I was very thirsty. I went to a farm half a mile distant, where I was given all the cold water I wanted; and it was a lot. There is an art in drinking water when one is desperately thirsty. If one dashes into it, buries his nose like a horse, and drinks like a horse, he is very like a horse, and knows not the joy of dallying with his thirst. The proper system is to first cool and rinse one’s parched mouth and throat, to let them know there is something doing at last. Then two or three swallows, not more; gad, how good it is, and how it permeates! Then a moment of contemplation, gazing the while
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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