. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . H. l,OMAX. G. R. RUSSUM. equal to any modern palatial residence. Whenever he was not making a newdugout he was building some addition to the old one. He was also a linealdescendant of Nimrod of old and hunted exclusively with the rifle. He it waswho gave me the first clear conception of the possibilities of hunting ducks with him one day he observed that I always aimed atthe body of the bird; he explained to me that this cut the flesh up too much,and that he always hit them i
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . H. l,OMAX. G. R. RUSSUM. equal to any modern palatial residence. Whenever he was not making a newdugout he was building some addition to the old one. He was also a linealdescendant of Nimrod of old and hunted exclusively with the rifle. He it waswho gave me the first clear conception of the possibilities of hunting ducks with him one day he observed that I always aimed atthe body of the bird; he explained to me that this cut the flesh up too much,and that he always hit them in the head. The spring of 1880 was extremely dry; so dry that the wheat in the Plattevalley refused to sprout, and had to be plowed up and corn planted in itsplace. On the third day of July it began to rain and the rest of the summerwas excessively wet. August lOtli a cloud-burst occurred in the vicinity nowoccupied by the village of Callaway, which caused a serious flood in the SouthLoup and Wood river valleys. The Loup bottoms were running with threeor four feet of water for twelve hours, an
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