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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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T. J. BUTCHER, Gates, Neb. MRS. T. J. BUTCHER. valuable. This pioneer history is made up largely of the personal experiencesof those who blazed the way into the wilderness and endured the trials andhardships incident to a pioneer settlement. Being one of these pioneers,although less prominent than many others who have recounted their expe-riences in this work, I feel that it is my duty to contribute my mite to thegeneral store of facts of which this work is composed. The writer was born at Burton, Wehetzel county, West Virginia, January24, 1856, from which place my parents removed to LaSalle county, Illinois, inthe spring of 1860, where my father, T. J. Butcher, accepted a position with theIllinois Central railway to pump water, a position he held for almost twenty-one years, resigning to immigrate to Nebraska.
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AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 145 I learned the photograph business in 1874, but was taking a vacation andwas engaged in traveling for a firm at Clyde, Ohio. I received a letter frommy father stating that he had sold out and was going to move to Custer county^Nebraslva. I was very much surprised, and, while in a good position, I wasbeginning to tire of traveling about from place to place and had alreadythought seriously of seeking my fortune in the great west. March 9, 1880, saw two covered wagons slowly wending their way west-ward from Lostant, Illinois, with 700 long miles ahead of them. These prairieschooners contained T. J. Butcher, G. W. Butcher, his second son, J. R. Wabel,his son in-law, and the writer. We would travel as long as daylight lasted,then prepare supper and roll up in our blankets to get what sleep we could be-fore daylight the next morning. I was unanimously elected cook (as I waspopularly supposed to be good for nothing else), the ague which still

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