Nick Caceres

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"And so the inventor, turned out in top hat and tails, stepped onto the platform. Fairgoers paused in their tracks as they caught sight of a figure rising-rising and rising-up towards the sky itself!"
"The purveyors of such mechanical wonders dazzled the public with their achievements, providing what had been formerly myth."
"The most successful of them attained a celebrity on par with The Beatles..."
"It was a hard place to love; a tableau for mischief and sudden death from the sky or up from the ground. Hazel Lucas, a daring little girl with straw colored hair, first saw the grasslands near the end of the family journey to claim homestead."
"It was as empty as the back end of day, a wilderness of flat. The family clawed a hole in the side of the prairie just south of Boise City. "
"She didn't want to live in a hole in the ground, with the snakes and tarantulas, and sleeping so near to the stink of burning cow manure. Nor did she want to live in a sod house, the prairie grass stacked like ice blocks of an igloo. Soddies leaked."
"But friends who had been in the Panhandle long enough to make their peace with it told the Lucas folk that if a person wore out two pair of shoes in this land, they would never leave. You just had to give it some time." -1914
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