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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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23 of one’s blanket, the wires hold the bobbinet several inches from one’s face and ears, and forthwith the murderous soprano of my lady Anopheles becomes sweet music. Every night I spent out the mosquitoes were abundant and bloodthirsty, and without the hood my rest would have been badly broken. And it keeps off larger prowlers also, when I awakened in the morning there were generally a number of grasshoppers walking around on it, looming large against the sky. I awakened entirely refreshed at 6 o’clock, and after partaking of my jealously protected breakfast I started anew down the upholstered track. The disgustingly fertile condition of the country continued, and increased, and I found little to interest me; for I can find nearer home all the cornfields I need. I followed the track most of the day, making a detour of a few miles north of Wilsonville , but finding nothing to pary for the extra miles. I took several photographs showing agricultural and other conditions, but these do not appear, for reasons touched upon in carefully guarded language on page 19. At 4:30 I reached Beaver City , to which point I had shipped my camera and some clothing a trifle more conventional that that I was wearing; for I had anticipated that the interest of the walking tour would pale at about this point. The 78 miles I had walked in the past two days had not exhausted me physically, but the cornfields had, and I was ready to quit walking.
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