Skating Under Cover: Kearney’s Indoor Ice Rink
Ice skating enthusiasts in Nebraska braved winter weather and rough ice before the advent of the indoor rink made "skating under cover" a more comfortable experience. ...
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What We Found
Christmas at Fort Robinson, 1880
The Army and Navy Journal, a publication for officers and enlisted men, often published letters by correspondents from military posts throughout the West. Occasional ...
Christmas in 1905
Although the most popular toys for the current holiday season are electronic, more than a century ago the toys in Santa's pack were likely to be mechanical. The Lincoln ...
Will Winter Never End?
How bad does it have to be before a locomotive snowplow gets stuck? A crew near Chadron on the Chicago and North Western line resorted to hand shovels to dig out a ...
Skating Under Cover: Kearney’s Indoor Ice Rink
An ice skater was photographed on a frozen Sandhills lake in Cherry County by Solomon D. Butcher in 1901. NSHS RG2608-2913 (detail) (Left).
Ice skating enthusiasts in ...
A Tombstone and a Blizzard
Chicago man who tried to drive a buckboard twenty miles through a blizzard on the Nebraska prairie and his narrow escape from death.
Many tales of ...
How High Is That Drift?
The four men standing between snow banks in Fairbury in 1912 illustrate the aftermath of a snowstorm described by the Fairbury Journal on March 1 as “about the heaviest ...
“The Climate is Awful Cold”: Judge Edward Harden in Nebraska Territory
When Nebraska Territory was organized in 1854 one of the judicial appointments went to Edward Randolph Harden of Georgia.
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A Horse Rescue on the Icy Missouri
What was a valuable racehorse doing on the icy Missouri River in January 1882? Men from a local packinghouse mobilized, but would they save the horse before it was swept ...
Winter Games
Although many of us may groan at the sight of winter’s first snowfall, when you’re a kid, it’s a whole different ballgame. When those first flakes begin to fall, you ...
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