Long distance travel in the early days of the automobile was difficult, and comforts along the way were few. Motorists pitched their own tents and cooked their own meals ...
Organizers of the Hastings Free Street Fair held late in the summer of 1899 no doubt hadtheir tongues planted firmly in their cheeks when they printed up this ...
"Free Homes!" advertised the poster sent to H. F. McIntosh, editor of the Western Stockman and Cultivator in August of 1892. "Free Homes! For the Hundred Thousand on the ...
Most of us take road maps for granted. It's easy for today's travelers to get a clear map to guidethem on their way. Not so with early voyagers across Nebraska's "sea of ...
The movement of French people into the Nebraska country began before the territory was opened for settlement, the first Frenchmen being trappers or Indian traders. For ...
"It is the easiest thing in the world to edit and publish a paper on the Frontier," wrote Mark J. Kelley, editor of The Little Blue (Jenkins Mills) on January 8, 1870. ...
By the late 1800s, new household conveniences were available to lighten some of a homemaker's manual tasks. Examples are the sewing machine, first patented in the 1850s, ...
Charles Fuller, a pioneer automobile maker, built his first car in 1898 in Angus, Nuckolls County. Angus in 1900 had a population of five hundred and supported twelve ...
"The last vestiges of one of Lincoln's earliest theaters will soon disappear at the hands of a wrecking crew," reported the Lincoln Star on January 14, 1940. "The Kresge ...
During the seventeenth century Native Americans in Nebraska were starting to trade for European goods, such as glass beads and metal items. Whether the items were traded ...
There are few historical descriptions of everyday activities at early fur trading posts. However, some insight into the operation of such a post has been provided in a ...
Robert W. Furnas was one of early Nebraska's strongest promoters. Although he gained fame as a soldier, governor, and agriculturist, he was also an influential ...