Marker Monday: McCook Army Air Base
Location
Blue Star Memorial Hwy, McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska View this marker's location 40.305189, -100.7012933
Marker Text
McCook Army Air Base, activated ...
McCook
What We Found
Pulitzer Prize Awarded for 1930 Editorial on George Norris
George W. Norris. NSHS RG3298-2-3 (left).
On May 5, 1931, the Fremont Evening Tribune reported that Tribune editor Charles S. Ryckman had been awarded a Pulitzer ...
Timeline Tuesday: Thanksgiving in Red Willow County
Thanksgiving in 1896 was celebrated on November 26, and editor F. M. Kimmell of the McCook Tribune took advantage of the holiday to reflect on Red Willow County's recent ...
Real Nebraska Stories: Rodeo Nebraska
Rodeo Nebraska Photo Book Explores Nebraska’s Small-Town Rodeos
Rodeo Nebraska by Mark Harris is now available at Amazon Prime.
Eight years ago ...
A Reflective View by George W. Norris
Defeated in the 1942 election for a sixth term in the United States Senate, George W. Norris, by the provisions of the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution for which ...
Senator George Norris’s snarky letter to an auto dealer
George Norris is remembered as both an influential US senator and a dignified, gentle man. But he could still go off on someone when he needed to.
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