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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1937_004
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Alternative Title
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1937 Scottsbluff Narratives
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Date
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1937
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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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4 life I did not take proper care; I rushed out to relieve this ridiculous situation; and I was struck by a car going north, in the near lane. It is interesting to me that I have not the faintest recollection of the car or of its impact; that I have no memory of even the slightest sense of pain. The fender bumper struck the left side of my left leg, five inches above the knee, as I (going westward) was barely entering the northbound lane; had I been another two or three inches forward it would have broken my thigh bone and probably killed me. The impact must have been with the extreme tip of the fender bumper, and was light enough to rotate my body slightly, and my own impetus was sufficient to thrust me, still upright, against the side of the rapidly moving car; and there I get my arm injury. The horizontal rather acute-pointed car door handle penetrated all of my clothing, ripped the main muscle to the humerus, even parting the thin, bone-clinging triceps, and set me rolling; which accounts probably for most of the scalp injuries, and for the dust and the week skewers imbedded in the torn muscles. I was wearing, Decemberwise, a heavy mackinaw, a medium weight suit, a shirt, and light underwear; through all of these layers the car door handle passed and ripped the muscles clear to the bone. The doctor told me later that the main nerve of the arm lay exposed for an inch or more on the humerus, untouched! The driver of the Wyoming car which had struck me came back at once, I remember, and voluntarily gave someone his name, residence,
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Rights
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