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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1934_003
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Alternative Title
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1934 Scottsbluff Narratives
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Date
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1934
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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1 March 3, 1934 Scottsbluff, Nebr. (Notes on a conversation with Capt. James H. Cook, author of "Fifty Years on the Frontier," a famous scout, hunter and plainsman.) Captain Cook says that the plains Indians had and have no use for the meat of hogs. The Sioux name for "hog" in "white man's boar." When various tribes of plains Indians were first rationed by the government, bacon was furnished, and this it was the uniform custom of the Indians to destroy. The Sioux name for the South Platte River is "greasy water," from the habit of throwing into it all pork products provided by the government. The North Platte they called "shell river" by reason of the presence of mussels. The famous Sioux chief, Red Cloud, was probably more friendly with Captain Cook than with any other white man. For many years it was the "summer vacation" of Red Cloud to travel from the South Dakota reservation to Captain Cook's "Agate Springs Ranch" in southern Sioux County, Nebraska, sometimes with quite a retinue. Several tipis would be erected under the big cottonwoods near the ranch house, and the Indians, sometimes a dozen or more, would remain for several weeks. They brought elaborate presents, as is the Indian habit; Captain Cook has a considerable number of the finest Indian costumes, war bonnets, buffalo robes, cured skins bearing pictographic record of implements of the chase - a valuable collection and of great historical interest, as a result of these many visits. In return, among other presents it was his practice to furnish the visiting Indians such cattle and calves as they need for met, and provisions of various hinds.
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Rights
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