Word: niobrara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jules Sandoz was a dark-bearded, ragged young man of 26 when, in 1884, he settled near the upper Niobrara River. He had studied medicine in Zurich, quarreled with his father, left for the U. S. to make his fortune. In Nebraska he married only to leave his wife because she "refused to build the morning fires, to run through the frosty grass to catch up his team." Locating his homestead at a time when cattlemen were driving off settlers with guns, when mail was held up at the nearest post office for as long as six months, Jules fought...