An Old Cowboy Writes
Cowboy poets, saddle-bound bards who record life on the range in verse, have lately been thesubject of much media attention. Cowboy poets recite their verses on ...
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What We Found
Oscar Wilde in Omaha
In the spring of 1882, Oscar Wilde, English poet and self-styled aesthetic, visited the unpolished state of Nebraska during a lecture tour. Wilde, his business manager, ...
“Just Say No,” 1880s-style
A hundred years before America's youth were encouraged to "just say no" to drugs, manyyoung people shunned the use of alcohol and tobacco. For some, playing cards was ...
A Nebraska Poet?
Using poetry or reviews of poetry to satirize public figures is an old practice. The review of verses ascribed to Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock in the Omaha Weekly Bee of ...
Neihardt, Mona
Mona Martinsen Neihardt (1884-1958) was a noted sculptress and wife of John G. Neihardt, Nebraska's poet laureate. Her father had a successful banking career and became ...
Neihardt’s Song of the Hoe
110 years ago, on September 27, 1900, The Youth’s Companion published a poem titled, “The Song of the Hoe”. It was written by Nebraska’s own John G. Neihardt, who was ...
An Old Cowboy Writes
"So I'll fix you greedy gluttons so you cannot feed your cows / So the crops all burned and withered; even grass it cannot grow" Cowboy poetry of the 1930s could get ...
“Just Say No,” 1880s-style
The young women of West Point, Nebraska gave an ultimatum to the town's boys via poetry: "The man who takes the red, red wine,
Can never glue his lips to mine."
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