North Platte Baseball
Baseball was a popular leisure activity for boys and young men in Nebraska during the 1890s and early 1900s. Small towns often fielded teams, giving rise to strong ...
North Platte
What We Found
Overland Freighting by Herman Lyon
By 1900 the days of the overland freighter across the Nebraska plains were long gone. But in January of that year Herman Robert Lyon of Glenwood, Iowa, who had formerly ...
Sod Schooldays
Many Nebraskans learned their readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic in a schoolhouse built from sod.Arta Ethlyn Kochen of North Platte taught in such a school in 1901. She ...
Cody vs. Carver
Showmen William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and William F. "Doc" Carver both had careers as popular entertainers. Cody, after service as a skilled buffalo hunter, army scout, ...
Nebraska Census
In 1854 the first census takers in Nebraska were fanning out across the territory to get the first accurate count of the state's citizens. The returns, carefully ...
Buffalo Bill in North Platte
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody considered North Platte, Nebraska, his hometown. North Platte residents basked in Cody's reflected glory during his lengthy career as a ...
The Military Career of Butler B. Miltonberger
Born in North Platte in 1897, Butler B. Miltonberger began his military service as a private in June of 1916, when the National Guard was mobilized during the Mexican ...
Feeding Us: The Story of Two Japanese Cafés
At the turn of the century the western railroad industry’s thirst for cheap labor dwindled, leaving thousands of unskilled Chinese and Japanese laborers without a means ...
Buy a Meal, Win a Car
Richi Ugai, the proprietor of the Palace Café and Hotel in North Platte, was an innovator when it came to advertising. In 1914, the June 26 issue of the North Platte ...
Real Nebraska Stories: Wings Over Nebraska
Wings Over Nebraska: Historic Aviation Photographs
Wings Over Nebraska by Vince Goeres is now available at Amazon Prime.
Did you know Charles ...
Flashback Friday: Photographer C. W. Bonham’s North Platte Valley
A Scottsbluff man was browsing an estate sale in 2014 when he noticed a box full of glass plate photographic negatives. Many were broken, but twenty-six were whole and ...
Hunting Wild Game on the Prairie
As they moved out onto the prairies, many European and American settlers were astonished by the abundance of game. This, of course, made hunting a popular pastime for ...
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