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Title
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“Cut Off Lake”
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Date
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1901
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301-1901
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Transcription
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4 eight feet. It is a flat structure like that of the herons, sometimes slightly cupped, and is built entirely of small dead twigs, occasionally but not often with reeds as a sparse lining. The two types are about equal in number in this area. It is interesting to speculate with reference to the variant habits of nesting in a clearly defined species; but my experience after having examined approximately a hundred nests of each type have resulted in no conclusions. The species of tule found here is Scirpus fluviatilis (Torr.) A. Gray. It grows in shallow water, gaining in its mature state a height of three to six feet; a simple, cylindrical, leafless, blue-green, pithy stem, the flowering not conspicuous. Strange to say, its accepted common name is bulrush; through by hunters and others with intimate though not scientific knowledge of plants, a growth of these is always called a tule swamp; they sensing, as do I, a rush as a flat-leaved, coarse, grass-like plant.
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Rights
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“Cut Off Lake”