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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Aug. 29
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, Aug. 29
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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Description
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Handwritten 10 page letter from Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, "Since I am way off here 'measly 100 miles from nowhere'..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-020c
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Transcription
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seems like all other Spanish American small towns only that it is a little more barren and has poorer water than usual. It is, however, not far from the mountains. These mountains at present are anything but inviting (they may be better and more attractive in summer) to the eye, being for the most part destitute of timber. What little timber there is is of the scrubby, thorny kind that we find at all timbered points that I have thus far visited in Argentina. Hardly a bush is to be met with that is thornless. Even the limbs, branches and twigs and in a thorn, while it is quite a prevalent rule for even the leaves of many of them to cintain pointed ends and a few thorned or spiked edges. All this is characteristic of desert regions; and this is nearly a desert, at least for much of each year. Some parts of the province of Catamarca, Rioja, San Louis and Mendoza as well as of Tucuman, Salta and Juyjuy are the dryest on the continent — the air often containing much less moisture than it did in Nebraska and Kansas during the 2 days when so much injury was done to corn the summer that we spent in northwest Nebraska and the Black Hills. In some parts, I was told, that on the days when these dry winds blow the poeple shut themselves indoors
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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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