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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1936_019
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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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10 The sun faded out in a minute, at about 3 p m; a violent northwest wind ensued immediately, and clouds of dust obscured everything. I rushed to the near-by Star-Herald office; form its front windows the store-fronts across the street were invisible; care caught out moved at a safety-seeking "speed" of about eight miles an hour, with all lights on; the air was a murky maelstrom. Against the faintly lighted lower west, under a vast and rapidly moving dust-cloud, the tops of buildings across the street were barely visible. How I wished for my camera! Dust; then thunder and lightning; then rain; then a spat of hail, but with small stones. And within a total of twenty minutes the spate had sent itself; the sun came out, the wind ceased, and everything was lovely. - what a funny, funny country! And how I love it! At 3 p m nothing could have been more remote than the possibility of keeping to our 5 p m schedule. But peace and quiet ensued; and the dry roads suck up moisture like a sponge. So at 5 p m behold our party assembled and undismayed: Eunice, her brother, Bertha Somebody from the office where Eunice works, and myself. Came the problem: Where? I thought of the Brule "natural bridge" six miles west, ten or more by roads; I made the suggestion, and the idea was favored. We followed the course known to me, parked the car as usual at the ultimate point it could reach, avoided the first canyon, cut across the buffalo-grama grass to the second canyon, and followed its course to the "bridge." Some of my companions, upon hearing my tall tales about
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Rights
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