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Identifier: sdbutcherspionee00butc Title: S.D. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Butcher, Solomon D. (Solomon Devore), 1856-1927 Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Publisher: Broken Bow, Neb. : [Merchants Pub. Co.] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: isgivings, if not with fear, as it will be remembered that he had bwnin some measure connected with the Olives in their fight with Mitchell andIvetchum. He was a cattleman, and his interests were not enhanced by thesettlers. What were my feelings to find myself precipitated in this fashion 66 PIONEER HISTORY OF CUSTER COUNTY into his house and finding myself clawing and kicking around among thedish pans and milk pails, while a gruff voice was demanding: Whos there?Get out! Scat! Get a light! Get the gun! and like exclamatoryremarks, interspersed with more or less profanity and a chorus chiming infrom other members of the family? Had the team fallen through the roof it would have raised no greaterrow^ than did my plunge through the window. But I finally extricated myselffrom the tinware, kettles and frying pans, and beat a hasty retreat undercover of the darkness and the excitement of the enemy out through the win-dow and around to the door, where I gave a loud rap, more in accord with

Text Appearing After Image: C. D. Pellham. First Hotel and Store in Broken Bow. civilized ways, and when a light was procured and explanations made, andan inventory taken of the kitchen utensils to find what actual damage wasdone, we were made welcome, and as the ceremony of breaking the icewas not necessary after breaking my head and a milk crock, McEndefferscob pipe and several other articles of less importance, we were soon comfort-able and quite at home. The next day our journey was uneventful, and we put up for the nightwith C. D. Pelham at or near where the present city of Broken Bow stands.Pelham kept the postoffice and a small stock of groceries, and I might saythe first hotel in Broken Bow\ We had often seen the puzzle of the innkeeperwho could put thirteen men in twelve rooms, but Pelham could discount anysuch cheap John mathematical problems as that. He could easily stow awaythirteen men in one small room. It is related of him on good authority that AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 67 he

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