“The Climate is Awful Cold”: Judge Edward Harden in Nebraska Territory
When Nebraska Territory was organized in 1854 one of the judicial appointments went to Edward Randolph Harden of Georgia.
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Flashback Friday: “Uncle Sam’s Sharpshooters”: Military Marksmanship at Fort Omaha and Bellevue, 1882-1894
In this 1888 image of the Bellevue rifle range, the men are firing from prone or sitting positions. The targets appear in the distance, with the enlisted men's camp ...
Sick of the Job: Nebraska’s First Territorial Governor
The very first governor of Nebraska Territory was in office for all of two days. Then he died.
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Bellevue: The First Twenty Years
This article has been an attempt to explore the founding and early growth of Bellevue, Nebraska on the basis of some new data and, to a degree, upon a reinterpretation ...
FDR at the Martin Bomber Plant
World War II raged in both theaters as President Franklin Roosevelt set out on a seventeen-city tour. The Omaha World-Herald reported on April 30, 1943, that the ...
How they celebrated the Fourth of July in Bellevue when Nebraska was a new territory (1854)
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Nebraska was a newly-organized US territory in 1854. Not yet whittled down to its present boundaries, “Nebraska” was a ...
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