Southern State Line
This story of the first survey of the east-west line which forms the southern boundary of Nebraska is excerpted from Al White's history of the sixth principal meridian, ...
Jefferson County
What We Found
Mail for the Little Blue
Mail service was a matter of vital importance to frontier Nebraskans, especially to those who depended on the mails for their livelihood. Mark J. Kelley, editor of ...
A Frontier Editor
"It is the easiest thing in the world to edit and publish a paper on the Frontier," wrote Mark J. Kelley, editor of The Little Blue (Jenkins Mills) on January 8, 1870. ...
Weird Wednesday: “Wild Bill” James Hickok Legend is born
On this day in 1861, one man shoots another and a legend is born.
Before the Civil War, James Butler Hickok was a driver for Russell, Majors, & Waddell, who ...
Marker Monday: The Smith Limekiln and Limestone House
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we focus on the Smith Limekiln, one of the last remnants of ...
Rock Creek Ranch Fight: An Introduction
On July 12, 1861, at Rock Creek Ranch on the Oregon Trail, in what is now Jefferson County, Nebraska, occurred an affray in which three men were killed. The character in ...
Rock Creek Station
Rock Creek Station is the name for two stations or road ranches on either side of a ford of Rock Creek on the Oregon-California Trail in extreme southern Jefferson ...
“Wild Bill” Hickok in Nebraska
James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837-1876), ca. 1869. (RG2603.PH0-000006)
Before the Civil War, James Butler Hickok was a driver for Russell, Majors, & ...
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