An old pioneer said, "We hear much of the necessity of providing recreation and amusementfor the young. I cannot remember ever hearing the matter discussed when I was ...
Life in Nebraska as reported by local newspapers in the first years of settlement was centered chiefly in the towns and farms along the west bank of the Missouri River. ...
In the Pine Ridge area of northwest Nebraska and the Black Hills of South Dakota, old fence corner posts and fence line posts are found. They measure 6 to 12 inches in ...
Wagon teams ford the South Platte River near present-day Hershey, Nebraska, in 1866. NSHS RG3351-32
Nebraskans familiar with the Platte River would probably ...
In the mellow days of "Indian summer," many Nebraskans head to the park for a last dose ofoutdoor recreation before the chill of winter. Most of us don't think much ...
Going for a spin in a new-fangled automobile was sometimes a real adventure, as thisaccount from the 1908 Campbell Citizen attests: "The scale of prices established by ...
Readers of the Kearney Daily Hub on August 16, 1930, must have been startled to read that there was "Plenty of Beer to be Had in Kearney and Many Imbibe it." State and ...
Political rallies were one of the varied summer evening entertainments popular in Nebraskacommunities before the advent of television. One such rally was recorded by ...
The People's Party, commonly known as the Populist Party, was organized in St. Louis in 1892 and held its first national convention in Omaha that July. The party ...
William F. Porter (1863-1945), a Populist-era Nebraska legislator and secretary of state, was described at the time of his death in 1945 as "one of the most colorful ...
The period between 1905 and 1915 is considered the golden age of postcards in America. Their one-penny price made them an attractive medium for communication, and the ...
Prior to World War I the Burlington and other railroads experimented with special railroad cars bearing exhibits and lecturers to spread information on modern farming ...