Riverside Americana Photo Gallery

RIVERSIDE AMERICANA PHOTO GALLERY

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Riverside Americana Chapter 1 color Photographs.

Attendees at the book dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony for Mel Oliva’s first book; The 10 Days of Thanksgiving …a comedy of errors.

This book is dedicated to the endeared memory of Bruce Stever. Bruce was the father of one of this book’s main characters, Dwight “D” Stever, D.Y.B.Y.3.

L. to R.: Dwight “D” Stever, Mel Oliva, Steve Jakl.

3 deer walking across the Platte River toward our non-threatening oversized Canadian goose stake-out decoys.

The 2 aluminum pontoon floating blinds having been hauled to the KMS hunting site by truck and trailer.

Double barrel Beretta Silver Hawk shotgun.

A typical decoy set-up when the water level of the Platte River was low. A pontoon blind is anchored in the water.

View across the Platte River on a nice, high water-level day.

Chart of pellet sizes of shotgun shells.

Tiny’s Bar in Schuyler, Nebraska

Canadian goose whose wings are “locked”

View of sandbars amid the Platte River from bridge on Hwy 15 near Schuyler, Nebraska.

Bed mattress chart of sizes.

L. to R.: Hen (female) Mallard duck,

Page of Puddle vs Diving Duck Characteristics Provide by: Waterfowl Identification in the Central Flyway booklet.

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Riverside Americana Chapter 2 color Photographs.

George Britt “Gritt” Kirkpatrick driving the golf cart with Mitch “Spence” Baier at the Schuyler Country Club golf course in Schuyler, Nebraska.

View of side channel of Platte River that runs

View of Riverside Acres cabin from the riverbank.

View of side channel of Platte River that runs along the Riverside Acres cabin.

B-52 Bomber with landing gear down resembles that of a Canadian goose who’s ready to land.

Millard, Nebraska water tower before the town was annexed into the southwest quadrant of Omaha, Nebraska.

Small and large sized propane tanks.

29 cent Wood Duck U.S. Postage Stamp

View through windshield of alley at KMS hunting site.

The Great Horned Owl.

Front side of the 1991 Nebraska Hunting Permit.

Reverse side of the 1991 Nebraska Hunting Permit.

Mel Oliva holding 2 hen (female) Mallard ducks

Drake (male) Mallard duck with wings “cupped”

Swinging gate to a pasture.

Chart of pellet sizes of shotgun shells.

View of decoy spread at the KMS hunting site. The low water level of the Platte River exposes higher contoured sandbars.

George Britt “Gritt” Kirkpatrick taking a nap while

Browning Stalker 3½” 12 gauge shotgun.

L. to R.: Mel Oliva and Mitch “Spence” Baier posing

The “Cove” along the riverbank of the Platte River at

View of side channel of Platte River that runs along the Riverside Acres cabin.

Millard, Nebraska water tower before the town was annexed into the southwest quadrant of Omaha, Nebraska.

L. to R.: Dwight “D” Stever, Mel Oliva, John “E” Ellis,

Gateless gateway to keep livestock in pasture.

L. to R.: Mel Oliva and John Ellis “E” exhibiting 2 Canadian geese that were harvested at the KMS hunting site.

George Britt “Gritt” Kirkpatrick riding “shotgun” in

2 drake (male) Mallard ducks and a hen (female) Mallard duck.

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Riverside Americana Chapter 3 color Photographs.

L. to R.: Dwight “D” Stever, John “E” Ellis, and Mitch “Spence” Baier posing with their shotguns at the Riverside Acres cabin.

The Great Blue Heron poised for fishing.

Decoy spread on the Platte River at the KMS hunting site.

One of the floating pontoon blinds set and anchored a few yards from the riverbank at the KMS hunting site.

American Bald Eagle at the KMS hunting site.

Fire Poker

The Great Blue Heron in majestic flight.

Millard, Nebraska water tower before the town was annexed into the southwest quadrant of Omaha, Nebraska.

Spread of decoys facing downriver at the KMS hunting site.

L. to R.: Steve Jakl and Dwight “D” Stever.

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Riverside Americana Chapter 4 color Photographs.

Floating pontoon blind set and anchored in the Platte River at the KMS hunting site.

A natural gas heater attachment for a small propane tank; the size of tank typically for a gas grill.

View of Riverside Acres cabin from the riverbank.

Gritt’s beginning-of-season inventory lists of decoys.

Gritt’s end-of-season inventory lists of decoys.

2 floating pontoon blinds hauled by truck and trailer to the KMS hunting site.

End-of-season convoy of vehicles hauling equipment, pulling the air-boat, and trailering the pontoon blinds from the KMS hunting site to the Riverside Acres cabin.

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Riverside Americana Chapter 5 color Photographs.

The obnoxious clanging alarm clock.

Hunting club member taking a nap alongside the riverbank of the Platte River at the KMS hunting site.

The boardwalk of pallets and crate sides that surround the Riverside Acres cabin.

L. to R.: Mitch “Spence” Baier, Mike Baier, and John “E” Ellis sporting their chest-high waders alongside a floating pontoon blind in the extremely shallow water along the riverbank of the Platte River at the KMS hunting site.

Shotgun depicting the safety switch near the trigger.

L. to R.: John “E” Ellis and George Britt “Gritt” Kirkpatrick adjusting decoys in the shallow water of the Platte River at the KMS hunting site.

L. to R.: Mitch “Spence” Baier and Maggie.

Maggie sneak’n a peak out of a floating pontoon blind at the KMS hunting site.

Maggie sneak’n a peak out of a floating pontoon blind at the KMS hunting site.

L. to R.: George Britt “Gritt” Kirkpatrick and Marvin “Marv” Chesley sitting in a blind at the KMS hunting site.

2 harvested Canadian geese.

Frost covered trees at the KMS hunting site.

L. to R.: Maggie and John “E” Ellis. Maggie has an incredible instinctive reaction towards a raised shotgun.

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Riverside Americana Chapter 6 color Photographs.

2 floating pontoon blinds hauled by truck and trailer to the KMS hunting site.

Hanging from the ceiling in the cabin’s living room is an ominous and unsightly yet effective sticky fly trap.

View of decoy spread in extremely low water of the Platte River at the KMS hunting site.

L. to R.: George Britt “Gritt” Kirkpatrick, Mitch “Spence” Baier, and Maggie sitting in one of the floating pontoon blinds at the KMS hunting site.

View of the normally unencumbered driving path at KMS to get to our stretch of lease riverfront hunting property.

The infamous “Wall of Shame” collage.

2 harvested drake (male) Mallard ducks in one of the floating pontoon blind at the KMS hunting site.

Drake (male) Pintail duck.

Page of Shoveler Duck Characteristics Provide by: Waterfowl Identification in the Central Flyway booklet.

L. to R.: Mel Oliva and Maggie driving to the Riverside Acres cabin.

The “River Point” area is approximately a quarter-mile up-river. From this vantage point, it looks like an island off in the distance with trees.

Concrete rubble piled high from noisy dump trucks and bulldozers that we had to content with on our leased property at the KMS hunting site during the duck season.

L. to R.: Dwight “D” Stever, Mel Oliva, John “E” Ellis, and Mitch “Spence” Baier sitting around a bonfire at the Riverside Acres cabin.

L. to R.: Dwight “D” Stever, Mitch “Spence” Baier, Maggie, and Gracy taking a walk on the driving path at KMS hunting site.

L. to R.: John “E” Ellis, and Gracy walking about the KMS hunting site.

Gracy and her shadow walking about KMS hunting site.

Maggie, the shiny dog, laying in the sun shine on the bench seat of the floating pontoon blind at the KMS hunting site.

Maggie, the ever shiny coated dog, at the Riverside Acres cabin ready and raring to go.

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