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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1934_004
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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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2 On the occasion of one of the early visits of the Indians, not knowing that the Indians still persisted in their abhorrence of pork, he thought to do them a special favor, and had his men butcher several fine young porkers, weighting about 70 pounds each, and drove personally to the camp of the Indians with this present. The Sioux took one look at the nicely disposed items in the wagon had, and then the remarks began! Indians have no about saying so when they do not like anything, even a gift; and they said so, when he reached this point in his story rendered most dramatically the gestures and scorn of the Indians, with the valley of Siouxan invective remarks. I wish I could reproduce it here, Sioux and all, but it is beyond my powers. I must ask the Captain to write out this incident; meanwhile these inadequate notes must suffice. The Indians, needless to say, were furnished beef instead of pork.
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Rights
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