Flashback Friday: The ‘Flagpole Affair” at Red Cloud Agency, 1874
Red Cloud Agency, 1876 NSHS RG2095-80
On October 23, 1874, Lakota warriors entered Red Cloud Agency and chopped up the pole that agent John J. Saville ...
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Flashback Friday: Folkways of a One-House Legislature – State Senator Bill Avery (LD-28)
Nebraska state senator Bill Avery represented Legislative District 28 (Lincoln) 2007-2015. A retired professor of politlical science at the University of ...
Flashback Friday: The Folk Songs of Great Plains Homesteading: Anthems, Laments, and Political Songs
“Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.” So proclaimed a popular song from the early 1850s. In that era, good old Uncle Sam undoubtedly had deep enough pockets, ...
Timeline Tuesday: Cowboys and Art
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his Wild West were major attractions at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. However, a few members of the Wild West did ...
Timeline Tuesday: Free Auto Camps
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 ...
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