Roosevelt, Theodore, Visits Nebraska, 1900
The Republican Party announced in July 1900 that Theodore Roosevelt, its vice-presidential nominee, would visit Nebraska that fall. Local Republicans were convinced that ...
Broken Bow
What We Found
Which Baby is the Best?
The photograph above, from the Solomon D. Butcher Collection, depicts a group of babies and young children in Broken Bow in 1903. Although the event at which ...
Flashback Friday: The Nebraska Statesman: The People Behind the Picture
Perhaps the most memorable thing about the Nebraska Statesman, published in Broken Bow from 1885 through the end of 1890, was Solomon D. Butcher's arresting photograph, ...
E. R. Purcell Remembers Newspaper Career in Custer County
“I have recently rounded out fifty years of newspaper work in Custer County,” wrote Emerson R. Purcell in late 1942, shortly after the publication of the golden ...
A Nebraska Land Lottery
Land registration at Broken Bow, held October 13-25, 1913. NSHS RG3335.PH4-56
The desire to own land and the availability of cheap land were important factors in the ...
Who Can Grow the Biggest Pumpkin?
Custer County Fair display at Broken Bow in 1886. RG2608-2964
Nothing says gardening success like a giant pumpkin. Displays of oversized tomatoes, potatoes, turnips, ...
Beauty at the Keyboard
Solomon D. Butcher’s photograph depicted C. W. Roush, principal of the Broken Bow Business College, and his stenographer, Mable Holcomb, both with typewriters. NSHS ...
Marker Monday: The Nebraska State Grange
Location
Rural Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska
View this marker's location 41.437329, -99.71526
Marker Text
The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was ...
Free As The Wind
In 1925 American manufacturers sold more than 95,000 windmills. Because of rural electrification, sales dwindled to less than 10,000 mills by 1956. This windmill ...
HN’s Heritage Hero Awards for 2019
Bruce V. Richman arrived at Buffalo Rill Ranch in North Platte wearing his Buffalo Bill gear, thinking he would be doing a presentation for a school group as he has ...
Blizzard of 1949
Blizzard, 1949. Francis Bateman, Box 142, Gordon, NE. Railroad tracks with snowdrifts towering above it to either side.
Custer County. Blizzard, 1949. A dog by ...
Marker Monday: Broken Bow Town Square
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing on a marker that tells the story of Broken Bow through the ...
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