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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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16 At McCook I went to a hotel, and spent the evening variously–a hot and several cold baths, a little writing, some reading of magazines. In the morning I tried to find my friend Prof. Pool , of the botany department at the university, whom I knew to be at large in this region; but it appeared that he would not reach town until the 9 o’clock train arrived that night. I took a long walk, and returning in the afternoon had two hours with Senator Cordeal , who is a painstaking student of the early history of the state, and who had much of interest to tell me about the regions I had visted–thrilling tales of Indian battles, the massacre of surveying parties, and attacks on wagon trains. He has in mind an attempt to identify Fremont’s route through this region, and suggested the possibility of our taking the trip together next season. At nine o’clock I went to the depot to meet Pool . He and his wife alighted in due course, and I applied for the job of carrying his suitcase, for a consideration, but as luck would have it, he recognized me, and I had to carry it along for nothing. So I went “home” with him, and after a visit I turned in, a tent pitched in the yard proving to be a lot more fun than any hotel I wot of–even a good one. I stated the probability of my decamping before they were up in the morning, and was immediately voted down and placed under heavy bonds to appear at breakfast. We had a pleasant chat in the morning, and afer a breakfast which I like to remember I struck out southward, at 9 o’clock. My destinat-
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