Lightning Rod Salesmen
In the 1880s when Nebraska farmers were moving from sod to frame houses, many bought lighting rods for their new dwellings. The settler might live from twenty to forty ...
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What We Found
Death in a Well
Working in a deep, hand-dug well was risky business in the days before machinery made human descent into the bowels of the earth unnecessary. Graphic evidence of the ...
Bookwalter, a Model Farm Community
The former town of Bookwalter, Pawnee County, was named for John W. Bookwalter, a self-educated scholar, inventor, businessman, writer, politician, and world traveler. ...
Cattle Drives
In 1907 rancher James H. Cook described his experiences herding cattle from Texas to Nebraska to Eli S. Ricker. While Cook talked Ricker recorded the story in a ...
A Farm Boy Comes to Omaha, 1888
"I guess there ain’t any end to Omaha,” wrote sixteen-year-old Frisby Rasp in a letter to his parents in 1888. “You can walk till you are tired out in any direction you ...
In Her Own Voice: Oral Histories of Farm Women
Throughout history, literacy and access to the materials required to record day-to-day life and experiences have been limited to those with the time, ability, and ...
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