Political rallies were one of the varied summer evening entertainments popular in Nebraskacommunities before the advent of television. One such rally was recorded by ...
The Josiah B. Gillespie family of six moved by wagon and horseback from their home at Coxville, near Chadron, Nebraska, to west-central Oklahoma in 1899. Gillespie, ...
Leta Stetter Hollingworth, born and educated in Nebraska, was a well-known New York psychologist during the early years of the twentieth century. She is best remembered ...
John G. Maher was once prominent in Nebraska's newspaper, business, and political circles. He volunteered in the Spanish-American War and played a role in Nebraska's ...
Nebraska newspaper readers in late 1899 were keeping abreast of the latest reports from Africa, where the Second Boer War (1899-1902), pitting the British against the ...
The movie industry was in its infancy seventy-five years ago, but that didn't stop someenterprising Nebraskans from getting in on the ground floor. The Black Hills ...
How bad does it have to be before a locomotive snowplow gets stuck? A crew near Chadron on the Chicago and North Western line resorted to hand shovels to dig out a ...
The star attraction of the 1911 Dawes County Fair in Chadron, held September 12-15, was the twice-daily exhibition flights by barnstormer Charles F. Walsh (1877-1912)
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First kindergarten at Chadron, 1893-94. NSHS RG3340-3-25
When Chadron’s first kindergarten was opened in the fall of 1893, the teacher, Miss Elizabeth “Bess” ...
In 1893 John G. Maher concocted a hoax inspired by fossil discoveries. Maher commissioned a detailed concrete cast of a man, then buried it north of Chadron. It was ...
During the seventeenth century, Native Americans in Nebraska were starting to trade for European goods, such as glass beads and metal items. One of the first trading ...
The theme of Archeology Month 2021 is Archeology in Nebraska State Parks. While Ft. Atkinson and Ft. Robinson have seen the most archeological work, we start in ...