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...John Deere 6620 SideHill combine. Carey cannot afford a combine of his own, so he hires his neighbor's machine. The two will talk the quiet talk of farmers for a few minutes, looking at the breathtaking beauty of abundance. Then, in the huge stillness of dawn along the Nishnabotna River, Anderzhon will climb into the combine's high cab and turn the starter key, shattering the stillness with 145 steel- throated horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Harvest | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...Nebraska, Minnesota and most of Missouri, almost as heavy in Kansas, Georgia and Maryland. Springfield, Mo. measured 16.4 in. during July's first three weeks (normal precipitation: 2.31 in.). Audubon, Iowa was drenched by over 12 in. in eleven hours; 19 drowned in resulting flash floods in the Nishnabotna River valley. Indiana's floods are the worst in 45 years, and the state's wheat crop this harvest may be only half the 38 million bu. estimated earlier. In North Dakota's Red River Valley, corn that stood 30 in. tall a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Long Wet Summer | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...Missouri gathers the waters of one tributary after another: the Sun, Teton, Judith, Marias, Musselshell, Milk, Yellowstone (fed, in turn, by the Bighorn, Greybull, Shoshone, Tongue and Powder), the Little Missouri, Knife, Heart, Cannonball, Grand, Moreau, Belle Fourche, Cheyenne, Bad, White, Big Sioux, James, Niobrara, Elkhorn, Platte, Little Sioux, Nishnabotna, Kansas (made up of the Republican, Solomon, Saline, Smoky Hill and Blue), the Grand, Chariton, Osage and Gasconade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missouri Valley: LAND OF THE BIG MUDDY | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

Operatic Touch. Near Nishnabotna, Mo., Tippler Clarence Carmen was arrested for shooting up a meeting of the local chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1951 | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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