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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1936_010
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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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1 1936 Apr. 8 I received a note from Lincoln office this morning: please, a photo of Scott's Bluff with the river in the foreground. This I took from my postoffice box at 8:30. By 9:30 the sky was graced with fitting clouds, so I started with my camera. - I was picked up near the depot by one of my Wisner friends, so I reached the bridge-end before the clouds had dissipated. I took photographs before 10:30 from the north side of the river: from near the bridge-end, and from a point 200 yards west. Then a short call on Ferol Hopkins, who with me is working on the federal guide-book; she is splendidly capable and our conferences are always a pleasure. - She drove me to a point east, from which I followed the Burlington track a mile and a half, to photograph the grave of Rebecca Winters. Rebecca Winters, daughter of a soldier of the American Revolution, traveling with a Mormon caravan, died of cholera at the age of 50, six miles northeast of towering Scott's Bluff. For years her marker was a tire from one of the Mormon trail wagons, inscribed by some member of the expedition, probably a blacksmith, with her name, date of birth, date of death. About 1900 the D.A.R. erected markers. On the fiftieth anniversity of her death a private car with a party of Mormon leaders from Salt Lake City came and erected a flat granite monument properly engraved. She was the mother and grandmother of men notable in it the Mormon church. - The tire marker still spans the grave. - I took several photographs, some of the rather difficult west face of the slab. Meadowlarks and redwings abundant.
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Rights
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