Abbott, Othman A.
Othman A. Abbott (1842-1935), a practicing lawyer at Grand Island beginning in 1867, was not only one of Nebraska's influential pioneer lawyers but also one of the ...
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What We Found
Accidents along the Trail
The greatest dangers along the Overland Trail were disease and accident. Except for sanitary precautions, then little known, disease was perhaps unavoidable. Accidents, ...
Pioneer Life
Reminiscences about pioneer life frequently describe droughts, blizzards, and grasshopper infestations. Job E. Green recalled a more personal event when he wrote his ...
Pioneer Recreation
An old pioneer said, "We hear much of the necessity of providing recreation and amusementfor the young. I cannot remember ever hearing the matter discussed when I was ...
Pioneer Social Life
Life in Nebraska as reported by local newspapers in the first years of settlement was centered chiefly in the towns and farms along the west bank of the Missouri River. ...
Alternative Fuels
The first settlers in Nebraska Territory found the lack of timber, except along creek and river banks, a problem. The consequent lack of fuel for heating and cooking ...
Sod House Construction
Sod houses were the first dwellings for many Nebraska pioneers. Descriptions of these homes can be found in reminiscences written years later, but there are few accounts ...
Horse Heaven
Dr. Enos Lowe (1804-80) was one of Omaha's pioneer settlers, who helped lay out the city in 1853 and served as its first mayor. Historian A. T. Andreas said of Lowe: ...
Lives Risked for a Drink of Water
"Forty miles to water, thirty miles to wood, twenty miles to hell, and I've gone there forgood." Plains author Mari Sandoz quotes this inscription, left behind by a ...
George L. Miller, Reminiscences in 1905
Seward County historian W. W. Cox included reminiscences from pioneer Nebraskans in his classic history of Seward County, published in 1905. George L. Miller, physician ...
Beadle in Nebraska
Erastus F. Beadle (1821-98), best known for his Dime Novel series launched in 1860, left Buffalo, New York, in March 1857 to seek his fortune in the new Nebraska ...
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 ...
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