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Nebraska Roundups in the 1870s
By the mid-1870s Nebraska’s open-range cattle industry, centered in the western Platte Valley and the Panhandle, was experiencing growing pains. Concerns ...
Nebraska’s Honey Creek Coal Mine
Miners at the Honey Creek Coal Mine, Tunnel No. 2, Peru, Nebraska NSHS RG2304.PH8-58 (right).
Many of the early searches for coal in Nebraska were prompted by the ...
Ashland, the First Saunders County Seat
First Saunders County Courthouse, built at Ashland in 1870. NSHS RG1121.PH8-28 (above).
An unusual feature of the boundary of Nebraska’s Saunders County is Ashland ...
The Unicameral’s Unwritten Rules
Policy-making has always been a delicate business with a lot of formal rules that must be followed. But as Nebraska State Senator Bill Avery explains in the Spring 2013 ...
Harrison Johnson’s History of Nebraska
“Our work is done,” wrote Harrison Johnson (1822-1885) as he concluded his History of Nebraska, published in 1880. “The volume is completed, and only awaits the ...
Drilling for Oil at Shelton
Nebraska’s first producing oil well was drilled in Richardson County in 1940, but prior to that date some drilling had been done in other parts of the state. One ...
Nebraska’s Unlikely Landscapes
A rocky outcrop is covered with small round cacti. Wide dusty badlands look like a backdrop for a Wild West movie. High rocky bluffs make the landscape below look ...
Nebraska Cigars Once a Smoker’s Delight
Ross & Bryson Cigar Factory, Lincoln. NSHS RG2158-PH9-16 (above).
The photograph above, from the collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society, depicts ...
Fire and Accident a Friend to Coyotes
Hunters exhibit their trophies following a hunt in Franklin County in January 1914. NSHS RG3367.PH3-23 (above).
Organized hunts for “wolves” (what we now call ...
Students and the Saloon
Although dating from the 1870s, the city of Lincoln’s preoccupation with the prohibition issue quickened in the first decade of the twentieth century. With the failure ...
The Rescue of Oscar Phelps
“Quite an exciting scene was witnessed last evening, on the river bank just opposite Boyd’s packing house,” said the Omaha Daily Bee on January 23, 1882, “which came ...
Historic Detail in Minden’s Depression-Era Art
In a previous post, we told you about Nebraska’s twelve post office murals, as presented in Robert Puschendorf’s new book Nebraska’s Post Office Murals: Born of the ...
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