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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1936_024
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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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15 After another climb we were afforded a pleasing vista through a horizontally-eroded break in the strata, of the valley northeast, for a score of miles beyond the Bluff and the river. I regretted having cached my camera some distance back. Then down the draw, by a route even rougher than our approach; it was lots of fun! - and again to our butte of mysterious geological story. We presently signaled Don and Bertha as they rode by, half a mile distant, on a trail form the south. Here we rested under pines and had lunch; then Eunice and I took the poinies, for a ride a few miles. My opinionated pony made it a point of honor to keep his nose two feet ahead of the pony ridden by Eunice; and it was quite impossible to keep him on his side of the trail. I might go along it if pleased me; but picking the road was his business. We traveled at a walk, a trot, or a lope, as chosen by the ponies; we had nothing to say about it. - Those few miles, ending at a dominating height, and the return, were a pleasing reminder of real distances achieved in the saddle. I had not been astride a horse since the summer of 1928m when in beautiful country about 50 miles northwest of Denver, Elaine and I enjoyed several long trips. Returning, we delivered the poines to Don and Bertha, and they lit out. Plenty of daylight remaining, Eunice and I started to explore the buttes east; a light-colored stratum had , even at a distance, attracted our attention, and we wondered: was it volcanic ash? It was no; but we had another stiff climb, another delightful outlook. - I took a photograph of a cute little "natural bridge: with about a two-foot span. - Then,
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Rights
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