What did you do in the war? That's the question researchers at the Nebraska State Historical
Society are trying to answer. In preparation for an exhibit on World War II, ...
Modern shipping companies pride themselves on prompt, reliable delivery service, whatever the
weather. But few of them could match the phenomenal performance of this ...
Baby shows were once a staple of state and local fairs and church festivals in Nebraska. Even private businesses hosted them to draw paying customers into their stores. ...
A stone in the Laurel Hill Cemetery at Neligh, Nebraska, reads: "White Buffalo Girl, Daughter of Black Elk and Moon Hawk of Ponca Tribe, Died May 23, 1877, enroute from ...
Edward A. Whitcomb (1843-1924) was a man of many occupations: soldier, farmer, apiarist, businessman, editor, legislator, and postmaster. His fifty-year career in ...
Howard J. Whitmore, whose legal career in Nebraska began in the early 1880s, was in 1937 president of the Lancaster County Bar Association. On May 29 of that year his ...
In an age of great showmen and traveling entertainers, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West eventually became a moving extravaganza, including not only cowboys and ...
The wild and wooly American West has been fodder for stories, dime novels, comic books,
motion pictures, and television programs. Many fictionalized accounts exaggerate ...
The wildcat notes issued by some Nebraska territorial banks caused considerable financial instability. The bills had insufficient backing and in some instances, no ...
After the United States entered World War I in April of 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Herbert Hoover head of the U.S. Food Administration. Hoover believed ...
While many candidates have announced their intentions to stand for election in 1990,
Nebraska's governor has remained mum on the subject. Governor Kay Orr's insistence ...
Using the wind as a source of power, including locomotive power, is hardly new. "Wind wagon" stories intermittently appear in the history of the Great Plains, especially ...