Morton and Wilson, Nebraska Territory’s Ghost Counties
Today many Nebraskans live in counties known by different names than they were during Nebraska's territorial years. The first eight counties in the state were Douglas, ...
Nebraska Territory
What We Found
Nahum Harwood in Nebraska Territory
Harwood's recollections (based on his contemporary diary) illustrate the rapid establishment of new towns and the feverish speculation in town lots that gripped Nebraska ...
Nebraska As It Was, As It Is, As It Will Be
This assessment of Nebraska's potential appeared in Brownville's Nebraska Farmer in theautumn of 1859:
"It is now nearly four years ago since I, a wanderer from an ...
Nebraska Connections to the Battle of Bull Run, 1861
The first major battle of the Civil War was fought in northern Virginia about twenty-five miles southwest of Washington, D.C. on July 21, 1861. Both the Union and ...
The Nebraska Farmer’s First Issue
The first issue of Robert W. Furnas's Nebraska Farmer was published in Brownville in October of 1859, eight years before Nebraska Territory became a state. Furnas (who ...
Nebraska Territorial Fair Premiums
Robert W. Furnas, editor of the Nebraska Farmer, in its March 1860 issue, apologized to premium winners from the first Nebraska territorial fair, held at Nebraska City ...
Nebraska Territorial Fair, 1859
The first Nebraska territorial fair was held at Nebraska City, beginning Wednesday, September 21, 1859, and lasting three days. Robert Furnas, later governor of ...
Nebraska Territory – A Trip into the Interior, 1858
The Nebraska City News of June 17, 1858, included a letter from an unidentified traveler who had recently made "A Trip into the Interior," and wished to share ...
Nebraska Territory, by D. A. Chapman
From a letter written June 13, 1854, by D. A. Chapman, correspondent of the Troy (New York) Whig, and reprinted in the New York Tribune, July 3, 1854: "I have just ...
Dividing the Land
The process of taking over the lands in the public domain known as Nebraska Territory was connected with their division into ever smaller parcels, and marking those ...
Dugout Construction
The dugout was a makeshift, temporary home and a predecessor of both the sod house and the log and frame house in early Nebraska. Such shelter was more easily made than ...
Election in Rock Bluff, 1866
Rock Bluff, Cass County, during territorial days was one of Nebraska's thriving river towns although almost nothing of it remains today. The town was founded January 6, ...
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