O’Neill on Northern Nebraska
In December 1874 the Central Union Agriculturist and Missouri Valley Farmer of Omaha invited "the attention of our readers to the following circular issued by Gen. John ...
Platte River
What We Found
Overland Freighting by George Marvin
The Old Freighters Meeting of the Nebraska State Historical Society, held January 10, 1900, included the reminiscences of George P. Marvin. Marvin, then editor of ...
Floating the Platte River in Fur Trade Days
Wagon teams ford the South Platte River near present-day Hershey, Nebraska, in 1866. NSHS RG3351-32
Nebraskans familiar with the Platte River would probably ...
Windmills
Nebraska's homemade windmills, according to historian Walter Prescott Webb, illustrate "one of the most interesting developments of the windmill that I know of ...
Seeing Nebraska by Train in 1877
What did 1877 Nebraska look like to a sophisticated European traveler? Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg of Austria was one of the most famous travel writers of the 19th century. ...
Irrigation
One of the early difficulties with farming and development in Nebraska was associated with the semiarid climate. The possibilities of irrigation received almost ...
J. H. Lemmon
J. H. Lemmon, one of Thayer County's earliest settlers, recorded his memories of the enormous numbers of buffalo in southeast Nebraska about 1860. In a reminiscence ...
Lowell, the History of a Boom Town
Few Nebraska towns had such a boom history as Lowell in Kearney County. It was selected as a townsite by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in 1871, and its ...
Nebraska Legislature
In 1897 Samuel E. Rogers, a former member of Nebraska's first territorial legislature of 1855, sent the Nebraska State Historical Society his brief recollections of each ...
Dundass Overland Trail Diary
Over seven hundred travelers along the Great Platte River Road left journals or diaries about their experiences in going West. These documents often have a vividness ...
Henry Ford in Fremont
Henry Ford's arrival in Fremont in August of 1916 to vacation and to attend a widely advertised tractor show there attracted statewide attention. The show was one of ...
Fort Kearny on the Missouri River
U.S. Army Pvt. William Ingraham and his unit spent the winter of 1847-48 at Fort Kearny at present Nebraska City. In the spring they traveled about 180 miles west to ...
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