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Title
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A DRIVE IN THE NEBRASKA SANDHILLS IN 1911
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Date
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1911
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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
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Transcription
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3 tions and this convenient lateral road-extension can not be affected, the tracks concentrate, and this concentration soon leads to hard going because of loosening and deepening sand. So presently some wary driver, afraid of stalling his load in this pass, will lay out an entirely new route for a mile or more, to avoid it; and this pioneer venture starts a new series of tracks. - As this is a grazing and not an agricultural region, pace enclosures are generally of many thousands of acres; so the infrequency of fences gives the relatively few users of the route great latitude of action. Along our route were many evidences of damage by the hail-storm of the 12th which we had experienced at Halsey , and which evidently had covered a large area. the few little cornfields established on flattish tracts here and there were almost totally ruined; and the best established grass cover on gentle slopes had been combed one way, by heavy rain following the hail. We passed by Dad's, Little Alkali, Dewey, and Clear Lakes, which I had last visited in 1903. A nesting colony of grebes at the east end of Dad's made me long for a stop-over; but it was not practicable. We finished our sixty-mile drive at Stilwell's ranch at 6 p.m., central time. In 1903 Stilwell occupied a soddy on the shore of Hackberry Lake, and on our visit then Dr. Wolcott and I occupied another soddy near by, arranged for the accommodation of duck-hunters in season. In 1907, however, the water in the lake rose several feet, and the old place was abandoned, a slightly higher site being chosen near the lake shore
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Rights
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