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identifier/filename
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title
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Letter, Frank H. Shoemaker to Robert Wolcott, 1905, May 20
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description
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Typewritten letter, 1 page, from Frank H. Shoemaker to Robert H. Wolcott, "I am booked for New Orleans and Houston, leaving here on Monday next."
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transcription
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Omaha, May 20, 1905.
Dear Wolcott:
I am booked for New Orleans and Houston, leaving here
on Monday next. I do not think the trip will take more than
two weeks, so I may hope to see our plans for the near future
carried out.
If you strike town when I am away, however, I want you
to know of a good collecting ground I have found. Cross the
Douglas street bridge, follow the Council Bluffs street rail-
way tracks around the first bend, and about 100 yards past
a little open waiting station used by a band of local murderers
known as the Gun Club; then turn to the left and go north-like,
your course being at right angles with that of the tracks.
About a quarter of a mile from the tracks you will find a
fairly extensive sandy tract, where I went after four o'clock
this afternoon and found the ground lousy with Lecontei and
generosa (?), also with sandarum, coeliburs, and Canada
thistle. I collected 86 Lecontei and 42 generosa in about
an hour - the comparatively small number being due to insuf-
ficient activity and accuracy on my part, and not to ^any lack in the sup-
ply in sight.
I fawncy I shall take a net and a bugbottle South.
Very truly yours,
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date
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5/20/1905
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subject
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Shoemaker, Frank H., 1875-1948
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tablecontents/boxes/folders
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Box 6
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source/RG#/MS#
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RG 32-13-01
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isPartOf/Collection
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Frank H. Shoemaker, Papers and Photographs
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creator/photographer
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Frank Shoemaker
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rights
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For copyright information, please contact the repository.
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publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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language
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English
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media
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