Rim of the Sandhills

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By a world renowned ornithologist who loves the Sandhills. An Atlas of the Sand Hills. This is a collection of essays and maps by experts in a variety of fields, exploring natural features, geology, water and other natural resources, and human use. The Nebraska Sand Hills: A scholarly work with many sketch maps, this is our most comprehensive guide to understanding and exploring the cultural history of the Nebraska Sandhills in geographical context.

A celebration of the history and natural history of the Sandhills in the form of a personal journal. Like no other place. Photographs and observations of ranching and small-town life in the Nebraska Sandhills by an East Coast resident who immersed himself in ranching culture and the many activities that bind ranching communities together.

In the kingdom of grass.

A good description of the tasks performed by working ranch hands that are essential to successful ranching operations. Biography qHaythorn, Harry Lisa Norman. A multi-generation history of the Haythorn family — founders, owners, and operators of the Haythorn Land and Cattle Company, accompanied by an outstanding collection of photographs. The Haythorn ranch is one of the great ranches in America and is located in Keith and Arthur counties in the heart of the Sandhills. Much of the work on the ranch is done from the back of a horse, as is accurately depicted by the photographs.

Administered by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the trail will eventually be miles in length.

The guide provides information about flora, fauna, historical events, communities, and services available along the trail. The Call of the Range: While not about the Sandhills as such, this book, written for the Nebraska Stock Growers Association, recounts much Sandhills history and introduces issues and events encountered in the Sandhills ranch memoirs. B Sa54s Mari Sandoz. Selected short writings of Mari Sandoz.

The Nebraska State Historical Society, He fought impractical land laws and government regulations associated with the anti-fencing law of and the Kinkaid Act, feuded with Theodore Roosevelt—an undocumented story related that Roosevelt told Richards to his face that he would put him in a penitentiary—and died while serving a federal term in the Adams County jail. Preserver of the Old Spade Ranch.

Bixby, who began work on the old Spade Ranch while its founder was in jail, held the ranch together and made it a successful working ranch in the modern era. Bixby died in Remembering a Prairie Childhood. An autobiographical essay about growing up on a ranch that straddled the Dismal River in the years , with an introduction by the then Director of the Nebraska State Historical Society.

B C Cook, Harold J. Tales of the O4 Ranch. Recollections of Harold J. Harold Cook was the son of frontiersman James H. Cook, who established the 04 Ranch, later renamed the Agate Springs Ranch, on the eastern edge of the High Plains and the western edge of the Sandhills, on land containing perhaps the best fossil deposit of Tertiary Miocene mammals ever found.

Harold grew up around Indians, old frontiersmen, cattlemen and famous paleontologists.

B B Bratt, John. The University Publishing Co. The State Publishing Co. This collection of stories and reminiscences of old-time ranchers and cowhands covers the adjoining areas of eastern Wyoming, southwest South Dakota, and northwest Nebraska, with a considerable amount of attention given to the Nebraska Sandhills.

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Included in this volume is an account of an early-day baseball game between two well-known Sandhill ranches the Spade and the Diamond Bar that has become part of the regional folklore. Ranching in the sandhills of Nebraska where seldom is heard a discouraging word. A collection of anecdotes that ranges over a wide spectrum of everyday life experiences on a Sandhills ranch.

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Written by a Nebraska native who had lived on both coasts but returned to become the wife of a rancher. Sand in my shoes. The kids always thought he was making them up but when my husband heard about this book Rim of the Sandhills about years ago, we managed to get it through a library, all those stories were in there.

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