Floating the Platte River in Fur Trade Days
Wagon teams ford the South Platte River near present-day Hershey, Nebraska, in 1866. NSHS RG3351-32
Nebraskans familiar with the Platte River would probably ...
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What We Found
Robidoux Pass
Nearly all overland travelers on the Platte River Road referred to the massive bluffs beyond Court House Rock and Chimney Rock as Scott's Bluffs. In 1828 as Hiram Scott ...
Man-powered Paddle Boats on the Missouri
In 1824 Congress authorized a military expedition to the upper Missouri River. Its purpose was to sign peace treaties with the Indian tribes living along the river to ...
French in Nemaha County
The movement of French people into the Nebraska country began before the territory was opened for settlement, the first Frenchmen being trappers or Indian traders. For ...
Fur Trade
During the seventeenth century Native Americans in Nebraska were starting to trade for European goods, such as glass beads and metal items. Whether the items were traded ...
Fur Trade
There are few historical descriptions of everyday activities at early fur trading posts. However, some insight into the operation of such a post has been provided in a ...
What’s inside the “Engineer Cantonment” issue of Nebraska History
The Spring 2018 issue of Nebraska History is devoted to the history and archeology of Engineer Cantonment. The 80-page magazine comes with a membership to the Nebraska ...
Sarpy County’s namesake “a legend in his own time”
The namesake of Sarpy County, Peter Sarpy (1805-1865) was an important trader whose career spanned Nebraska’s fur trade and territorial periods. “Sarpy’s life is not ...
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