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We. J. A. Haggard, $t. Real Nebr.
writtea September 11. 1920
r, r,4 •ft
Jimmy Scott, of Pabst who has just passed his 94th birthday
stopped for a little visit at sty taffies on boadaw aad as Is natural
with old Settler,, we soon drifte into discussions of Old times and
incidents of the early settlesmat of the Countul and with aim'
doing most of the talking. the oonwerøstion went seething like this*
"You me I was farming in Platte County in 1870, on a rented farm
about a mile from Coleman°, and it was a seasLe gk.-0(1, deal like this:
144 had plenty of rain in the spring and everything ilrew fine until
along in the middle f the summer when it turned hot and dry and kept
it up until elating we had planted waa burned up, so taus we didn't
relate scything at all. It was pretty dieeouraging. but this country
locklat good to me and I made up my mind to .ter and the mit *Wine
Lute North and I started out to look:for land. We drove up the North
side of the Loup River, through the Pawnee Indian Feseervation (New
Neat* Coastal wed on up the river until we croa.:ed Cedar Cr**. (Just
Northwest from and across the Worth Loup from St. Paul) This river
valley land locked good to um and Lute plated NA the South half of
the Noribast 'A:rter and the North half af the Southeast Anartim or
Section 12 Tomehip 15 Haug. 11, for a homestead. and I Piolint one
between t'ilat and the river, for our future homes. Lute had brought a
plow with hits, and on his place, in the spring vf 1871, Lute North broke
oat the first furrow that was ever plowed in the Loop Valley above
the Pawnee Indian Hesorention, and I think the first furrow ever plowed.
in Howard County. Nell -Lute soon got sick of it, sold his right to my
father, und we built our first dug -out, broke out a few vivre*, end father
lived on that fora until he died in Deventer. 1901.
Um4 toot 'Clot Ise soltio s Iwo4tamd 1 or
seeIV tio GeMar dawn. (Jonas Caves. ibSO .4poivito
Ohusty) aua tuok 4.40 ohms aoa west 0A7 there fa a L404 of C044,
rosto4 the Sioux used to Immo isou Uhe Vette: wetly ften to ciA41
tbe kawa*.oi aud stips1 VIAL 54siest qe'aims friem4r 'Ilth the Pmeuees,
m tut sing' aft4d• ui ti.vt avast for tbis4- IVY* prstty bitd
het Iwee simmy, shale .44 mijlt sus into ibiotin mf t 4'44
it ay 1044 a ';:sots mni Or4to iymel to tog Amato $isem. She "rimd two
or threo h4ye. 0e4tjbA4 O. 044 0041. 004 ecorz. mod thmy kat 4140
40 6 lam4 4 i;60to. asp; vitwo vmming tr4t.artaz Imtio4
these 4414 Mat lout ui a Izot or *rub. Raoik to last both ths
110$0 sold 10001f Cr 4boo to trip. !ham %de souther am wit& as
bet tho boys worm hut thmtm opt. oud tao NO4 044 I *me Siolosiog
0,0004 dorttlac.r4$014 to 400 out the nest eirrsisa wise te o& lled out
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wilt GIA4 aism. 'sem with a bolt tall ot eartriam00. 044 *my
driving At or 40 tetra 0110.44to be vommuipos thiqr Aftl *Alm 4r
phoneme? he meoft genhemo Wthey sZtala. we arm a whet. be ems*
does* 444 Itho Zsaciemit to om A save. mad muse asuman they wore
hot. they ohm simile 5:44 riot. and *waft uttAlbnt tut she hciumo. I
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%eve eme et tie heilema 404 got tome owed .4 me. A41611 weo soots
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lom614. moa meta it elii be 414. rIgtd6 I1.Jaw old. aha sot he um
house. lost Imo Indian* beams ressaging avoush 14 tie" moaathies 4074,4
3aMMOIR 014 table moot hoiedilleiaepestD.Aor uAg messes that eh,
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steesed 111 In to the lest me.. Um whoa they eclat f setae'
aort ,ast the; 'mat zdaltrecre, but pretty sic,r4a che or thea
motlAtat ft mn to acne oat: mum thso4h1 ro, tIne
timt they 4aly ?elate& at 41 $m4.11 pile et 400216 I sodded ely heed *4
Om sail tliny tl,Alz the eam ant fat Poir ?Mx rs VAro4
0001 Vat tarrul we t ft; tc,A tha heat u tElmo* "t dr.1*
it off (,,ith, their palGs: the; 1:3ket the "awe tire 414 fame tw,
irsedie Ooze the tore ..,4141 N.44 tk thw%c4c,'41,1 f:And U4 old,
eneeth-lbore anewel lvsuber markt?, :lad thi4; the;:i broke IP 0,11440:tbss
.dirtring. theIr pomluit oheftt vf theft tli67 c10 fr thb evert.
ta e tittle vtile iliQati Non e%ma os4 :.ett=4 •If gie %1,44 Iross
amy Wiens. aet w t ht1 TvAltla 21a4m. 41114C th*se 140
Mae t az" 10 in Oil use ugc,aag faloc., named Littlefla1ci A4m,i441
Skottilne *Walt". thrtt fclIgm ha: nal: mot 4a a:ter tha lad -IAN* um&
mho then ;ex ter the eiew imd. that' thiagn tegr trA aarr!* rlx. 2
telt theta It ma foollohneet74 that there wee 27 a them Imileas, all
ellfevyine :Mows von armots %Al MIt:!:1 101 of ar.40. om4
didn't bollavo that *'4, %to oettlers on tho toia trelIoy, If eoar
were 411 boro uti 1.1:4 Avsgs 04121d, :*si; a; f14ht
1 teI4 th4t 1 t3tklbe4 *ith Ca1441a.rameqn. 4414 wirer
to attack Uir Anutte alistAs fiAis
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mmt tereets thi4 rbrox frxv]aaw411,; tly ::utftv t4,! Lialame
denyed bract. Ti iv4
c:sed Litlleris14 f, itir4 cf Ce4taino
maw vao rot, ittaLi2,, luta tkal rigv; Vat v4.4a of 4bw "ht
tiao7 .430; :Us '-lth tLan aid lomat ab..t ths- fo. fh4 art and
Aad other property they Woke thh 1az wtncuts boa Littlefield
We lbw be says boys If ma do WA t -a ro 1ooti but they ',,foeld hale
It may other ewe nod so Littlefield went Seen to talk eith tbs teduess
they hzd an interterttor And Littlefield told hia that they had
halidted well-ormed men just ,Ator the hills wed that if the: dientt pay
fit the thing, they took asa: th.evuld slim* tbs, and tha Indians slat
Wing an your hundred liens mod then tho 'thief helo 1p sertrldes 4s hill
*V be tv,mid rsAehs n4 6Alre three whoops lod ths eartedges Amt
then tbs Indians opanOtnra from behind thg bruh: most -f tho *Apt,
west hiklbs but ,n* streak Littlef14411 0,MAVO In the 14rsha.vd."
fli Tvloa havared Jost the loust, he oAat hie eyes to tbo floor
out then evatinuoil "It vla vrty phAms too. fvr LItticflA4 wus
%Lys abolt 20 zears cid
bedy liked,
!Attlee wait the
Tolle ewer 411Ied b; the
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&mono the 44;irly oottlorm of the JAW
It haivanod tbk; Wore same
1.11obraikei I bad often "ooard about it im u roundabout ways but had amt
bawd the partieulars *boat It until tlila at of .(1Ames ks 364414)
Aims has forvtten man: Whip that hasaposed yeetertsys or 14, weak
or last icc4w, VA tko tcs tikAt happened to him woen he was youth
ere 11'4811 In Us and as is writton sx,roOmunts 414I beiless shorn
itor;, to told le absolutely truss se Ls believes its as Jimmy never
itioss nottr -agortosal QX taa:s a story beaautto It tSGA44 el he is
poet 64 z4rtirs No4 -.414 awng t 40, wary Caw 1,ert that can tells first
bask of thowe Inclaenta ,fr t. AiittI000nt th. sooatys anc it
seems to, me th,.,t such tosL4 as thle be oorirtog isiAle
maw, t :et osaltle, It ,41:404 be aloe If 4t,MO coot tbe
f4ttlors who lives or did lives ne-r 3eLwhen this harlieno4
woad tell imaisspurtise440, of t2$ drab et 11,41 11114W10144