Christmas with the Cumings
The Omaha Evening Bee, December 24, 1906, included a short reminiscence of several holiday celebrations in territorial Nebraska."
"Margaret Cuming, widow of Thomas B. ...
Nebraska Territory
What We Found
Brickyards
Demand for building material of all kinds encouraged the establishment of brickyards in Nebraska. Nebraska Territory had only one brickyard listed in the federal census ...
Flashback Friday: Poor Niobrara!
The town of Niobrara, located along (or as shown here, in) the Missouri River in northeast Nebraska, flooded in 1881. NSHS RG2118-5-14
Poor Niobrara, ...
How Do We Get There?
Today, if someone wants directions, they can just go online and find a map to practically anywhere. But this is just a recent development. Before the internet, we needed ...
Nebraska and the Civil War: Why the Story Matters
Nebraska has a rich Civil War legacy, according to James E. Potter, senior research historian at the Nebraska State Historical Society. Potter and Edith Robbins edited ...
Newly Discovered Diary Tells of Building the Transcontinental Telegraph
The transcontinental telegraph was a remarkable technological feat that had major consequences for the West and the nation as a whole. Yet relatively little has been ...
Miles, Mules, and Men: The Forgotten Front of the Civil War
Note: the word Indian is used instead of Native American as it was the norm at the time.
Imagine your car. Now consider the amount of gas that it requires to keep it ...
Morton and Wilson, Nebraska Territory’s Ghost Counties
J. Sterling Morton, for whom Morton County was named, about 1859. NSHS RG1013.PH1-6
Today many Nebraskans live in counties known by different names than they were ...
The Election of 1864 and Nebraska
For the full story of Nebraska Territory during this dramatic era in American history, see James E. Potter, Standing Firmly by the Flag: Nebraska Territory and the Civil ...
“The Climate is Awful Cold”: Judge Edward Harden in Nebraska Territory
When Nebraska Territory was organized in 1854 one of the judicial appointments went to Edward Randolph Harden of Georgia. A lawyer active in local Democratic Party ...
Celebrating the Holidays with the Cumings
Thomas B. Cuming. NSHS RG2411-1134
Omaha in 1854 was a village without churches and social organizations, but Margaret Cuming, widow of Thomas B. Cuming, who was ...
Did Nebraska’s James Iler Discover Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)? and Other Tales of Life and Death in Territorial Nebraska
During the 1860s, Nebraska City was a major depot for freighting across the plains by both individuals and large companies. NSHS RG2294-37
In 1860 James ...
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