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- ↑ Shumway, Grant Lee (1921). History of Western Nebraska and Its People: General History. Cheyenne, Box Butte, Deuel, Garden, Sioux, Kimball, Morrill, Sheridan, Scotts Bluff, Banner, and Dawes Counties. A Group Often Called the Panhandle of Nebraska. Western publishing & engraving Company. p. 334.
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- 1 2 Nebraska Blue Book, 1930. Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska. Legislative Reference Bureau. 1930. p. 270.