When Railroads Promoted Immigration (Updated August 2018)
Railroads used to be Nebraska’s biggest promoters. They even advertised overseas to encourage people to immigrate to Nebraska.
By the 1870s the Union Pacific and the ...
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What We Found
Searching for Smuggled Hooch
U. S. Customs and Drug Enforcement Agency officials are kept busy these days searching forsmuggled illegal drugs. Traffickers have hidden drugs in everything from ...
Trans-Mississippi Exposition Centennial
The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898 was an effort by Omaha to advance its promoters' claims that it was the gateway to the wonders of the West. ...
The Wild West in 1902
In an age of great showmen and traveling entertainers, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West eventually became a moving extravaganza, including not only cowboys and ...
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, signed into law on May 30, 1854, by President Franklin Pierce, was closely related to national and sectional politics in the 1850s. The ...
Labor Day, 1889
Labor Day is a day of rest for most of us--the last holiday of the summer. But Nebraska's first Labor Day, a hundred years ago, offered little respite for those who ...
Livestock Transportation
Railroad cars have been used to transport livestock since the 1830s, but until about 1860, the majority of shipments were made in conventional boxcars that had been ...
The Farmer Invasion
As autumn and the 1990 elections approach, political parties and special interest groups arevigorously campaigning for their candidates and causes. One hundred years ago ...
Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad
"Free Homes!" advertised the poster sent to H. F. McIntosh, editor of the Western Stockman and Cultivator in August of 1892. "Free Homes! For the Hundred Thousand on the ...
Covington, Columbus, and Black Hills Railroad
After the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, a rush occurred from Sioux City toward the northwest, leading some Sioux City capitalists to propose a rail line over ...
Coal Thieves
The advent of winter at one time prompted many Nebraska householders to lay in a supply of coal. Those who lacked the money sometimes found creative ways to fill the ...
Camping Vacation
Camping has been popular with Nebraska vacationers for well over one hundred years. Rail transportation to mountains or other scenic spots enabled even those of modest ...
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