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Rh of Nebraska, and styled by topographers half a century ago as part of the Great American Desert.

The names and descriptions of the Great Spirit and the Guardian Spirits of Nebraska are taken from the Mythology of the Lakotah Indians, which is closely followed in the statement by their own special Guardian. The part played by the returning goldhunters is included in the story of the goddess who prepared the soil to welcome man. The devastations of war, fire, pestilence, and famine, are portrayed as the writer has lived them in that country, which is now under the sway of "the brighestbrightest [sic] of the gods." —Clara Bewick Colby.