An Old Cowboy Writes
Cowboy poets, saddle-bound bards who record life on the range in verse, have lately been thesubject of much media attention. Cowboy poets recite their verses on ...
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What We Found
Roping Elk
Cowboys occasionally roped more than cattle or horses, as James E. Farley recalled in Solomon D. Butcher's Pioneer History of Custer County, Nebraska (1901). "Towards ...
Cowboys
Cowboys first appeared in Nebraska on cattle drives from Texas, accompanying the vast herds to northern railheads such as Schuyler and Ogallala beginning in the 1860s. ...
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 ...
Roping Elk
James E. Farley about 1904. NSHS RG2608-2116 (at left).
Cowboys occasionally roped more than cattle or horses, as James E. Farley recalled in Solomon D. Butcher’s ...
Good Guys Wear White Hats
10645-2029; Source: John P. Falter Collection (top left) 10645-2030; Source: John P. Falter Collection (top right).
Those of you who have been following our blog, ...
A Haunted Cowboy
Unidentified cowboy (RG2608.PH003300)
The Old West has its share of ghostly lore, no matter what section of the country you study, and Nebraska is no exception. By ...
Vampires of Nebraska
A frightening-if-true story with a supernatural twist comes out of the northwest county of Dawes, just around the Pine Ridge. The end of 1895 saw a number of brutal ...
Nebraska Roundups in the 1870s
Lee Brothers Ranch at Brownlee, Cherry County, in 1900. RG2608-1837 (left). By the mid-1870s Nebraska’s open-range cattle industry, centered in the western Platte Valley ...
Nebraska Cowboys of the Open Range
The American cowboy has come to symbolize bravery, justice, and the nostalgic freedom of the Wild West. But real cowboys didn’t spend all their time fighting bandits and ...
Flashback Friday: Why Cowboy Gun Battles Were Often Shots in the Dark
Sidney, Nebraska, circa late 1870s. NSHS RG3315-40
Associate Editor and black powder enthusiast Jim Potter wrote this blog post. One staple of TV or movie ...
An Old Cowboy Writes
"So I'll fix you greedy gluttons so you cannot feed your cows / So the crops all burned and withered; even grass it cannot grow" Cowboy poetry of the 1930s could get ...
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