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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1936_009
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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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3 Apr 4, '36 - sheet 3 ditions, that I could recognise some species: Canada and snow geese; mallards, pintails, shovellers, teal. - One note of special interest to me: I could not see the birds, in the mist of the moment; but I heard , more distinctly and clearly than ever before (indicating low flight), the unmistakable notes of a flock of sandhill cranes. Waves of meadowlarks and red-winged blackbirds - many thousands of the latter. One western meadowlark, bewildered, missed his cue, and was killed by striking our radiator. We backed up and I brought the lovely thing in with me. And who could might have anticipated, so early, to find the finding of a 13-striped spermophile - a "ground-squirrel" - out of hibernation, and running across the road as actively as in summer! Feller better remember where his hole is. So, back to Gering, 5 p m - chilled, happy, hungry. The snow began to fall at 5:30; six inches of it during the night. What delightfully inconsequent climate! Two days of last week the temperature ranged below zero; the ground is white now; and by April 15th many species of plants will be flowering.
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Rights
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