HOMELAND

Dad has noted that the land in Northern Nebraska, where the Niobrara River meets the Missouri River, is direct. "Frank" is the way he describes it, as in the land hides nothing, it is upfront, bitter, beautiful and largely untouched. Winters here can be brutal. Lewis and Clark spent one season here at what later became Fort Niobrara. The yellow cliffs are South Dakota, less than a mile away, but "very different" than Nebraskans. The people who come from this part of the world, are like the land, frank.