Sandhills, Hawley’s Proposed Reclamation of
Conservation and prison reform were combined in a proposal by R. A. Hawley for the reclamation of the Sandhills of Nebraska in 1893. Hawley believed it feasible to plant ...
Fort Robinson
What We Found
Army Laundresses
U.S. Army laundresses, often wives of senior enlisted men, were once given daily rations, quarters, fuel, bedding straw, and medical services. An article in Nebraska ...
When It Absolutely Had to be There Overnight
Modern shipping companies pride themselves on prompt, reliable delivery service, whatever the weather. But few of them could match the phenomenal performance of this ...
The Wild, Wild West
The wild and wooly American West has been fodder for stories, dime novels, comic books,motion pictures, and television programs. Many fictionalized accounts exaggerate ...
Nebraska’s First Motion Picture
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 ...
Fort Robinson Hop
The frontier post of Fort Robinson was the scene of frequent dances and parties. The following account of an 1883 "hop" was published in the Omaha Bee: "Fort Robinson, ...
Crawford, Emmet
Captain Emmet Crawford was killed in Mexico on January 18, 1886, after his command of Third U.S. Cavalry had chased Apache raiders across the border and was attacked ...
Christmas at Fort Robinson, 1880
The Army and Navy Journal, a publication for officers and enlisted men, often published letters by correspondents from military posts throughout the West. Occasional ...
Christmas at Fort Robinson, 1882
Fort Robinson provides the following holiday story of devotion and courage. It can be found in A Frontier Army Christmas, a new book published by the Nebraska State ...
Buffalo Soldiers West
African-American soldiers on the western frontier are the focus of an exhibit at the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln. Buffalo Soldiers West, on loan from the Colorado ...
Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger Foreward
Red Dog, an Oglala Lakota who lived at the Red Cloud Agency, Nebraska, 1876-77 (Nebraska State Historical Society RG2955.ph).
In the summer of 1876, following the ...
Frontier Soldiers and Their Tiniest Enemy
Historian John McDermott wrote about the physical hardships of a frontier soldier’s life, describing the western plains as “an environment that could be frustrating, ...
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