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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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13 my kodak (sic) for the time, and to send back to Lincoln a lot of collecting material, specimens, exposed films and plates, etc. So after leaving Haigler my load was reduced to 15 pounds, which seemed inadequate. I reached Benkelman before seven o’clock, had “supper,” and then, as there was a pretty fair moon, I concluded to go on, having noted from the train on my westward trip that there was nothing of surpassing interest visible in this region. So I took to the road, and walked ten miles, to Max . The road was good, the light was sufficient, the air was bracing, and the trip was delightful. Arriving at Max , and finding that the hour of 9:30 was too late for any of its upright citizens to be abroad, I went on a still-hunt for a pump, anathematizing the while, without naming anybody, whoso would be so improvident as to go anywhere without a canteen. I tried back yards, front yards, porches; I did all but break and enter, in search of a pump. It was the dryest town I ever visited; but early I was impressed by the fact that in still another way it was unique; it was not only pumpless, but pupless. Not once in all my suspicious prowling was I disturbed by the raucous dissonance of a dog, watch-, bull-, or lap-. I sadly returned to the tracks, there to pencil a few last words and lay me down to die of thirst, when in my delirium I noted a livery stable–a trough–a minute excrescence on the end there of which might be, and laus deus, which was, a pump, broad of mouth and connected with a sufficient supply of alkaline water to prolong my miserable existence. And the gods or somebody had hauled in from the
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