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7. VISTA FROM SOUTH BLUFF TOWARD TOWN OF SCOTTSBLUFF

The North Platte Valley is a patchwork landscape of alfalfa, sugar
beets, corn, beans, and wheat, crisscrossed by irrigation ditches that
have made the cultivation possible.

Scottsbluff (pop. 12,858), the metropolis of western Nebraska, is
situated in the center of this rich and fertile valley. It is the chief trad-
ing center for a large area of Panhandle Nebraska, and eastern Wy-
oming. Packing, dairying, and canning are the important industries.

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1. BOYS TOWN, OMAHA

Boys Town is the youngest incorporated village in the country with
its own boy mayor, councilmen, and commissioners, its own post office,
newspaper, school rooms, barbershops—in fact it is a complete city.

Founded on ninety dollars of borrowed money in 1917 by Father
Flanagan, the institution today has an enrollment of over 1,000 boys
of varied color and creed. The boys, who live in the well kept cottages
surrounding the 1,200 acre campus, come from all over the United
States. They are admitted between the ages of ten and sixteen—some
are homeless, some are under-privileged, and some are delinquent.
At Boys Town they attend grade and high school, are taught a trade,
and attend a church of their own choice. It is supported entirely by
contribuations. A motion picture. Boys Town, made in 1938 starred
Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney.

2. GREAT WESTERN SUGAR BEET FACTORY SCOTTSBLUFF

The North Platte Valley holds the world's record for the .highest
average of sugar beets per acre. Since sugar-beet farming requires more
hand labor than most types of agriculture, many farm workers are
attracted to this area from mid-May into October.
Thousands of sheep and cattle are fattened in this valley from beet
pulp, the by-product of the sugar beet industry.

3. BUFFALO STATUE AT PIONEER PARK

This life-sized bronze figure of the buffalo by George Gaudet, and
the Smoke Signal, a memorial to the Nebraska Indians by Bills
Burman, a local sculptor, stand in the Pioneer Park at the southwest
edge of Lincoln. Included in its 600 acres are herds of buffalo, elk,
and deer, several small lakes giving refuge to wild fowl, and the
Pinewood Bowl amphitheater.

4. NEBRASKA WHEAT FIELD

About ten years ago a "new look" started appearing on the Ne-
braska wheat fields. Farmers began to terrace their land—great,
broad, flat ones. These terraces not only keep the gully-washer rains
from tearing up the wheat fields, but the moisture is held for a
longer period, there is less soil erosion, and it is easier on the farm
equipment.

Wheat is still the income that brings the steadiest income to the
Nebraska farmers, surpassed only by Kansas in the production of
the winter variety. During the harvest season fleets of combines run
24 hours a day, their giant headlights shining through the darkness.

5. WILDCAT HILLS STATE PARK

Wildcat Hill Game Preserve, 10 miles south of Gering, is an 840
acre tract of extremely rugged and wooded country, reminiscent of
the Wild West. It is the habitat of deer, buffalo, elk, and other wild
life. The drive along the preserve presents a continuous vista of the
varied formations of the Wildcat Range, spectacular views of the
North Platte Valley, and familiar landmarks of the Old Oregon Trail.