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Buffalo Soldiers Photographs
Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth U.S. Cavalry (called "buffalo soldiers" by the Plains American Indians) garrisoned Fort Robinson for eighteen years and played an ...
Nebraska History Spotlight: Perkins County Museum
Operated by the Perkins County Historical Society, the Perkins County Museum in Grant includes three buildings, known simply as the House, Country School, and Exhibit ...
Marker Monday: University of Nebraska at Kearney
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In 1903 the legislature appropriated $50,000 to establish a state normal school in central or western Nebraska. After 111 ballots, the State Board of ...
Frederick Douglass’s Nebraska Sister
Frederick Douglass is remembered for his escape from slavery and for his speeches and autobiographies through which he advocated passionately for freedom and civil ...
A Picnic Mishap
Picnicking is one of the most enjoyable summer pastimes, and Nebraskans more than one hundred years ago enjoyed it as much as we do today. Occasionally, however, ...
Marker Monday: K-9 Training Area, Fort Robinson
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In September 1942 the Fort Robinson War Dog Training Center was established. Barracks, classrooms, administrative offices, and other support ...
State Song Sing-Along
The year Nebraska celebrated its centennial, it got a new state song. “Beautiful Nebraska” was so designated by the Nebraska legislature and the bill was signed into law ...
Robert Ball Anderson’s journey “from slavery to affluence”
Born in slavery, Robert Ball Anderson became a prosperous rancher in Box Butte County, Nebraska.
Marker Monday: The Savidge Brothers, Aviation Pioneers
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Near here was the scene of some of Nebraska's earliest experiments with flight in a heavier-than-air vehicle. Sometime before late 1907, Martin P. ...
No Father’s Day for Nebraska in 1915
“For some years we have had ‘Children’s Day’ and ‘Mother’s Day,’” said the North Platte Semi-weekly Tribune on June 10, 1911, “and now thanks ...
Sewing the Flag
In 1872 we held our first Fourth of July celebration. Everybody was eager to help and preparations went forward swiftly. The magnificent natural park with School Creek ...
Buffalo Bill’s Big House
At first glance, an 18-room French Second Empire-style mansion might not strike you as “western,” but take a look at that huge barn! This is what a western man would ...
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