My wife is a fan of various groups on FB,?ÿ This photo is from a group called Nebraska through the Lens.?ÿ The scene is somewhere in the Sand Hills in north central Nebraska.?ÿ Just look at a map and find a huge area with virtually no towns.?ÿ That is the Sand Hills.?ÿ Miles and miles of cattle country.
Just for fun.?ÿ Another Nebraska photo.?ÿ The highest point in NE just a few feet from Colorado.
The Nebraska Sandhills, North America's largest contiguous body of sand (with one helluva an aquifer underneath it - that being the Ogallala Aquifer or High Plains Aquifer - the largest in America). My family's cattle ranch was near the western edge where the wind slowed down just enough for dunes to begin to form!
And we would move cattle to and from a summer range across the Burlington Northern tracks and U.S. 385 (approx. 11 miles south of Alliance, NE). Always a tense few minutes. My Grandfather would drive ahead and lay hay across the tracks for the cattle. I wonder what the rules are today for moving cattle across a railroad ROW. I bet there are many hours of safety training and hiring a safety crew or two (if a separate safety crew is needed for the U.S. highway crossing). Ah, the good old days.
My Father has a large framed photograph that was published in a cattlemen's magazine in the early 1960s that documented our Hereford cattle move across the tracks and highway to the "West" pasture. Yep the "West" pasture. We were a family of few words.
In my early twenties I was know to throw a tent, a couple of side-by-sides, and my dog in the pickup and head out that way to chase sharp-tailed grouse and prairie chickens for a couple of weeks in the fall.?ÿ
@holy-cow So, are you saying these are the 'Nebraska Foothills'?
The 'rough country' of places such as Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas is found in the eastern part of the state.?ÿ Although there is a small bit of the extreme northwest corner of Nebraska (northwest from Chadron) that is quite different.?ÿ The highest point in Kansas looks much like the the highest point in Nebraska and is roughly a quarter of a mile from Colorado.?ÿ The highest point in Oklahoma is located near the junction with both Colorado and New Mexico atop Black Mesa which extends quite a distance into the two adjoining states.
