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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1937_009
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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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3 I had been unaware of a leg injury which was really the most serious of my wounds. The fender bumper of the car which had struck me and crushed an area of the flesh on the outside of my left leg against the femur, amazingly not breaking or even injuring the bone. After the cleaning and medicament, it took eight stitches to adjust the muscles of my arm, and eight more to patch the skin; a few on the leg injury; another lot on my scalp. Those taken in arm and leg were painful, the scalp stitches hardly so at all. I had firmly made up my mind not to yip; and though incentive to vocalization offered, I managed to take it quietly. -Chance sometimes is O. K.; my doctor had no cigaret aura about him. Now about how it all happened. It was in the early evening of December 15th. I had been in Scottsbluff, had stopped for a visit with my Terhune friends who have their residence, greenhouse and nursery a mile from Gering business center, and had resumed my walk. When just across the Union Pacific track, on the highway only a hundred yards from the depot, I was hailed by someone in a car bound for Gering; and I recognized the two women in the car as former associates in work on Nebraska Panhandle historical data. This was in the evening heavy traffic period between Scottsbluff and Gering, one of the busiest short roads in the whole state. The car from which I had been hailed had stopped in the line of traffic instead of pulling out, and was waiting for me. Within a very few seconds a dozen cars were stopped or slowing, and their horns were saying unpleasant but quite righteous things. -For once in my
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Rights
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