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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1936_020
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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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11 it, had feigned skepticism in an insistent and lovely manner; but they were duly impressed when it came in sight, and viewed it with appropriate awe! - Then we followed the meandering drainage out to the level of the span, where we spent some time looking it over. On the way up we had seen a delightful array of evening primroses, the finest I had ever encountered; the flowers normally open at night, so are seldom seen; but these had been awakened earlier than usual by the overcast hour. Starting to return, Eunice, of pioneering instinct, said, "There must be some way down the first, instead of the second canyon. Let's find it!" Sez I, "Let's go!" - The first four efforts led to drops of from a trifling 30 feet to a real one of 100 feet; but the fifth guess located a passable descent - rough on weak ankles, but just look at ours! So Eunice and I found our way down; discerning presently our two missing members, hunting a way down and hanging over a scary edge. We shooed 'em back, and discovered soon - more readily from below - a practicable route, traversing which they soon joined us. Here I began to gather for a fire the sparse material afforded by the area: roots of dead and sage and yucca, brambles of Rhus, the few dried branches from cedars. Going ahead, I selected a sheltered angle in the dry drainage course (no rain had fallen here) and started a fire; and presently the others showed up. - The point chosen proved admirable; little wind, the space between high walls twenty feet wide and so placed that the light from our fire would not alarm the folk at the nearest ranch, ¾ mile away; with a lovely sky-line of ragged buttes and yucca, and a new moon to make it perfect.
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Rights
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