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Amos’s Diary: Wednesday, September 23, 1903
Amos’s Diary: Wednesday, September 23, 1903 First real cold snap of the fall, and the creek smelled like wet leaves this morning. Martha called…
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The Rifle Is a Slow Gun for a Fast Country. Now Choose the Gun That Feeds a Family Across Open Ground.
Late May, 1848. Somewhere on the North Platte, a Day East of Fort Laramie. You…
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Amos’s Diary: Thursday, February 4, 1904
A cold come through the holler last week and took the old mule in the…
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The Wheel Came Down on His Leg and the Nearest Surgeon Is Five Hundred Miles Away. Now Take It Off With a Saw and a Bottle.
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Amos’s Diary: Friday, January 15, 1904
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The Horse Is Down and Dinner Is Standing on Four Legs
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Amos’s Diary: Tuesday, December 8, 1903
The leather folder held seventeen recipes, and after the last one Amos told the whole household to flop the book…
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The Meat Is Turning Gray by Midday, and the Nearest Smokehouse Is Six Hundred Miles Behind You. Now Dry It With the Sun You Curse All Day.
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Amos’s Diary: Friday, June 12, 1903
The leather folder held seventeen recipes, and after the last one Amos told the whole household to flop the book…
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Four O’clock and the Last Ox Gone Down: Keeping a Family and a Sick Man Alive Through the Plains Heat
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Amos’s Diary: Monday, August 31, 1903
The leather folder held seventeen recipes, and after the last one Amos told the whole household to flop the book…