Word: niobrara
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Ellis struck first at midnight. He drove his sedan to the George Mensinger ranch near Merriman on the Niobrara River, got out, walked to the house and hammered on the door. When Mensinger opened it, Ellis killed him with a shotgun blast, pumped out three more shots and then circled around to a kitchen window. Mensinger's 24-year-old wife was at the telephone, baby cradled in one arm, sending an alarm over the party line. Ellis fired again, killed her and wounded the baby...
Four times between 1941 and 1944, fed by the Republican and its sisters-the Plattes, the Yellowstone, the Niobrara, the Cheyenne, the Belle Fourche-the Missouri had jumped its unstable banks. Men watched in misery while people, barns, houses, hogs, cattle and precious topsoil went tumbling down its chocolate torrent. Estimated damage: $149 million...
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...
Excitedly the figure in the rawhide boots advanced: "You mean Black Jack* Pershing. Well, shake hands with your old private that used to peel potatoes for you. Yes, Sir, General-in the Sioux Indian campaign, buck private in Seventh Cavalry at Fort Niobrara. Black Jack himself! Yes, sir, all the ducks you want. I'll be danged...