The Prairie Schooner

Hooker, William Francis · 1938

To My Wife MAMIE TARBELL HOOKER A Pioneer of the Jim River (Dakota) Valley When the Union Pacific Railroad was completed from Omaha, Nebraska, to Ogden, Utah, it passed through a territory about as barren of business as one can imagine. It apparently was a great Sahara, and in fact some of the territory now growing bumper crops of alfalfa, grains and fruits, was set down in school text-books in the 70's as the "Great American Desert."…

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