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Excerpt from Pioneer Doctors of Brown County, Nebraska The early history of medicine in Brown County, Nebraska, like the early history of the settlement of all new countries, can never be written quite clearly. Too many of the occurrences of that time are forgotten. What would be counted thrilling in this time of good roads and automobiles were just every day occurrences. In the early eighties in Brown county the pioneer doctor was never troubled by the telephone ringing in the night but his rest was often disturbed by someone knocking on his front door and demanding that he make a trip to attend some sick or accidentally injured persons, twenty-five, thirty-five or even fifty miles away. Early settlement in the sand hill country south, and tributary to Ainsworth, Long Pine and Johnstown, were made by stock-men along the streams of water because of the better feed and the easy accessibility of the water for the stock. These streams were the Calamus, 25 miles south, Goose creek 35 miles south, the Bloody 35 miles south and the North Loup 50 miles south. Between these river settlements and the better settled table lands north, lay a vast expanse of sand hills and small valleys, each sand hill, with its blowing top of white sand, looking just like every other sand hill, with only dim trails instead of traveled roads to guide the traveler. In good weather a trip to the nearest settlement south, by hard driving could be made in a day, but to the farther settlements it was an all day and night drive, or, if conditions were bad it meant two nights and a day or, two days and a night, with but little time for rest and refreshment. To the north, over the table land conditions for travel were better. Here the roads, or trails, took the most convenient course without regard to homesteads or section lines. Along both sides of the Niobrara river there was a house at the bottom of almost every canyon. To make it possible to reach these houses from the table above, narrow winding roads had been dug into and down the side of the canyon. Here the early doctor encountered rough and not always too safe going. I recall a canyon experience of the fall of 1884. A brother from Indiana, who afterwards moved to Nebraska was visiting me and riding with me to see the country. One evening about sun down we drove down one of these shoveled out roads to the home of Harve Markley at the bottom of a canyon, on the north side and six miles down the river from the Mead bridge. When I was ready to start home it was quite dark and my brother asked: How are you going to get out of here? I answered: drive out the way we came in, he said: you cant see to drive out of here. I answered: no, but the team will take us out. he replied: They may take you out but they wont take me, there are some folks down in the Indiana I want to see again before I die. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.