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Frontier Fences
By David L. Bristow
It takes a good fence to keep livestock out of a farmer's crops or garden. In the heavily wooded eastern United States, this was ...
Spotlight on a Star: Conserving the Art of Actor Sig Arno
The career of actor Siegfried “Sig” Arno started in his native Germany in the 1910s and eventually spanned more than 100 film and theater roles across Europe and the ...
Marker Monday: Shell Creek Pawnee Settlements
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By the early 1600s, the ancestors of the Pawnee Nation began consolidating into a few large communities. Each was home to hundreds, if not ...
Marker Monday: Republican Pawnee Village
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Near here was a large permanent village of the Republican band of the Pawnee tribe which may have been occupied as early as 1777. On September 25, ...
Trust and Horsemanship at Fort Robinson
“Thru These Portals Pass the Army’s Best Horsemen,” reads a sign above a barracks doorway at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. As the army’s largest quartermaster ...
Marker Monday: Nehawka Flint Quarries
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Flint nodules embedded within subsurface Pennsylvanian Formation limestone deposits in this vicinity were an important source of stone used ...
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