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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1936_025
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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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16 Descending, we characteristically selected a hard way, where team work was needful now and then. Eunice is always ready for an expedition. With a lovely curiosity about things, unbounded enthusiasm, tireless to the day's end, interested in every phase of nature and knowing a heap about it, and with the rare temperamental gift of accepting passing misadventure with a smile ,she is one grand companion. We left Selby's ranch a few shades after dark. June 8 As I stepped out a few minutes ago, at 9 p m, my feet crunched in ice - on June 8th! I had planned to go to Scottsbluff at 5 p m, but at that hour a heavy cloud moved northeastward, with a strong wind. - At 5:30 a hail-storm arrived, sweeping from north to south or southeast, large stones hitting the pavement and dashing to pieces; then smaller stones, but a billion of them. Across the street (I was dining in the Welcome Inn, west side of Tenth) I could see, during the fall of the heavy stones, the windows in National Parks, McGriff's, and the Courier office, smash one by one; and the street was white with hail, banked more than a foot deep against the west-facing building. - Then, suddenly, it was over; humans came from cover to appraise the damage. And sheets of heavy paper, reinforced with strips of lumber, were spread over the breaks… Noting which, the sky gods bust forth again! another hail-storm, with bigger stones and a stronger wind! Soon the street was whiter than ever,
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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