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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1936_026
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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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17 and the increasing rain washed the heavy hail deposit-viewed from upper windows in the Parks office-into most intraicate and memorable patters. And there were more broken windows. I have failed to mention, as a notable thing, the air filled with twigs and leaves, stricken by the hail form the trees; near the base of the water tower the pavement was nearly covered, and under the trees they lay a foot deep. These sky pehnomena always impress me; and I feel too a keen interest in the subsequent run-off. For water, seeking its level, always behaves consistently; and its treatment of the hail layer today afforded me a most impressive side-light on what happened in the post-tortiary formation of the dam across the head of the Gulf of California - forming the ancient Blake Sea, to become later and to persist toady as the Salton Sea (see my notes Oct. 1921). Substituting boulders for hail-stones, and increasing in imagination the geographic scale and the run-off a million-fold - why isn't it reasonable to study today's little show, aw an aid in reading the story of that bid show, so long ago! June 11 Union Pacific begins on June 16th, sixteen-hour service with streamlined trains. One of them was set out here today for inspection; I took three photographs: one of the train (only about five units will be visible, on account of the slight curve by which the train approached form the west), the picture so composed that the beautiful Gering depot is shown fully on the right; and I waited until the head of the slowly-
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Rights
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