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Family Camping Trip Along the Platte River, 1911.
Taken on family property along the Platte River east of Columbus in either 1910 or 1911. My family was likely celebrating
either the Fourth of July or an early 50th anniversary of my great-grandfather receiving a "Bounty Land Grant" from the
federal government for that 160-acre parcel of land in April 1862. Included in the picture is my great-grandfather and great-
grandmother James and Johanna Haney, my grandfather and grandmother James S. and Alma Haney, great-aunts Lizzie and
Agnes Haney, great-uncles Frank and Patrick, uncles Carl and Art, aunt Helen, and my father Bill.
Of note in the background to the middle right of the family portrait is a wood-burning camp stove with a short smoke stack
and pots and pans hanging around a tree trunk, and to the left of the picture is the American flag on a wall tent.
– Bill Haney, Beaver Lake
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