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Rain Follow the Plow: Homesteading in Hayes County, Nebraska Robert D. Clark, author ISBN 0-934988-36-6 352 pages, softcover, photos, notes, bibliography, published 1996, $17.95 Diaries, family narratives, legal documents and newspapers are woven into this well documented story of why and how a family participated in what Nebraska historian Addison Sheldon called the "Great Immigration" of land seekers in the 1880s. In 1885 Warren Clark (1854-1918) and his wife Ada (1859-1939), New Yorkers who were financially unable to purchase a farm in their native state or in Iowa where they lived five years as tenant farmers, homesteaded on the High Plains in Hayes County, Nebraska, in an area beyond the 100th Meridian referred to at the time as the Great American Desert.

Storytelling Tips: How to Love, Learn, and Relate a Story Duane Hutchinson, author ISBN 0-934988-13-7 96 pages, softcover, photos, bibliography, published 1985, $5.95 Practical advice and sources for the novice or the experienced storyteller. The author has given over 12,000 programs during his professional storytelling career with the South Dakota Arts Council, Nebraska Arts Council and Iowa Arts Council.

"Tower, This Is Andy," and Other Flying Stories from Northeast Nebraska Robert L. Carlisle, author George Plimpton, foreword ISBN 0-934988-24-2 177 pages, softcover, photos, notes, bibliography, index, published 1991, $8.95 Packed with flying stories from aviators in northeast Nebraska, this informal history describes events between 1912 and 1990. Professor W. E. Winterringer's hot air balloon stunts; the fatal crash of Nebraska's first licensed female pilot; gremlins; and the Civil Air Patrol are just four of the subjects in the sixty-seven stories packed into this collection.

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