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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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20 elapsed I got my bearings and saw only the ludicrous aspect of my hard luck. But three efforts were enough; the whole ridge was evidently proof against invasion, and remembering that two fellers had ravened through the region only a short twenty-four hours previous, I decided not to trifle with the overwrought natives. On the strength of two more notches, I got across the inhospitable Red Willow county line, and in free Kansas , at Cedar Bluffs , made bold to purchase food at an inn. I then proceeded to visit the rocky outcroppings on the south side of the Beaver from which the town takes its name. I took a number of photographs of Cedar Bluff (see foot-note, and pray for me.) I show herewith my one extant photograph of Cedar Bluff–also a distant view with I took from near the Nebraska line. Some of the cedars among the rocks are of considerable age, though most of the trees are young. I was interested to note the Mexican falcon, the rock wren, and the turkey vulture. I collected a specimen of the large moth Erebus odora , which works up sparingly Upon my return to Lincoln I developed five rolls of film one morning. Everything was lovely. Returning in the afternoon I developed the remaining two rolls (18 films). They were ruined. Investigation disclosed the entertaining fact that between 12 noon and 2 p.m. the plumbers had put in some pipe on the floor below the laboratory in which I was at work, and had got enough acid or profanity or something into the water to bring about the result described.
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Rights
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