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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1936_004
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Alternative Title
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1936 Scottsbluff Narratives
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Date
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1936
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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 Yucca abounds in a great variety of placement, from high plains to ridge tops, holding its chlorophyll-green even through the severest winter; it is always a decorative plant. And in season the green-colored blossoms on a stout stem, above the spiny plant, are very attractive. It is, of course, a lily; But it is surprising how many people, by reason of its impolite thorns, believe it to be a cactus. Along in the late spring or early summer appear wild roses of two or three species, generally in or bordering ravines rather than on the plains. The most common is the Prickly Rose (Rose seicularia), with purple-red buds and wild pink blossoms, which is peculiar in being identical with the common wild rose of northern Europe and Asia. -An occasional Marioposalily is found, but they are rare here. And mustards of several species occur, with yellow flowers and funny handle-bar seed-pods. Fremont's Primrose is another delight ofthis period; the flowers, two inches in diameter, are pale lemon-yellow in color, but as they age, droop, and drop, they run the whole garmit through orange-yellow, orange, and the yellow-reds. Pentstemon appears in many species, an upright plant with raceaes of flowers with elongate, tubular corollno, generally white or blue. And the cacti bloom now; we have about five species, the flowers, yellow or rose, things of exquisite beauty. Low mallows with salmon-colored to almost rose-colored flowers, lineevery roseaiea; also Caura, with pretty reddish flowers in terminal spikes.
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Rights
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