Author: Solomon Devore ButcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Custer County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
S.D. Butcher's Pioneer History of Custer County
Author: Solomon Devore ButcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Custer County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
History of Gage County, Nebraska
Author: Hugh Jackson DobbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gage County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
A Brief History of Nebraska
Author: Ronald Clinton NauglePublisher:
ISBN: 9780933307391
Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"This book is a short treatment of a long history. Nebraska has been inundated by ancient seas, carved by glaciers, and settled by ancient cultures who learned to survive in a land prone to extremes of climates. As a state, Nebraska was born out of the Civil War, shaped by railroads, and built by immigrants. Settlers were drawn by promises of free land and abundant rain. They endured droughts and economic depressions. They fought for political reforms, fought world wars, and sometimes fought each other. Along the way, Nebraskans chose a unique form of government and re-invented their communities under new conditions. A Brief History of Nebraska is a story of continual change, the back store of the place and people we know today"--The back cover.
Pioneer History of Custer County
Author: Solomon Devore ButcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Custer County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Roadside History of Nebraska
Author: Candy MoultonPublisher: Roadside History (Paperback)
ISBN: 9780878423477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This overview of Nebraska history leads both visitors and residents on an in-depth tour of the state's past. Divided into five geographic divisions, the book follows roadways to all the well-known and many lesser-known points of interest. From early French and Spanish explorers to modern agriculture and the ongoing plight of Native Americans, the complete story of Nebraska unfolds here
History of Hall County, Nebraska
Author: August F. BuechlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hall County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
In the Early Days Along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852
Author: Gilbert L. ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
"Journal of a trip that began in Monroe, Michigan in March of 1852, with a caravan of twenty-four men, one woman, forty-four head of horses and mules, and eight wagons all going to the newly found gold fields in California. The entire trip to Hangtown, California, covered 2,542 miles, and was five months lacking six days in making it. The time spent crossing Nebraska Territory was especially impressive to the 25 adults, for its land, beautiful scenery, animal wildlife" ... --Dealer's catalog.
Prairie University
Author: Robert E. KnollPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496228669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Founded in 1869, the University of Nebraska was given the awesome responsibility of educating a new state barely connected by roads and rail lines. Established as a comprehensive university, uniting the arts and sciences, commerce and agriculture, and open to all regardless of "age, sex, color, or nationality," it has as its motto Literis dedicata et omnibus artibus--dedicated to letters and all the arts. The University at first was confined to four city blocks and didn't have a building until 1871. Cows grazed the campus. But soon the high aspirations of the state began to be realized. Nebraska boasted the first department of psychology west of the Mississippi River, and its faculty included national prominent scholars like botanist Charles Bessey and linguist A. H. Edgren (later a member of the Nobel Commission). Willa Cather, Roscoe Pound, Mari Sandoz, and Louise Pound ranked among its early graduates. And it developed a reputation for excellence in collegiate athletics. Written by a beloved member of the faculty, this history shows both why Robert E. Knoll is so devoted to the University as well as the tests such devotion must endure. Its history is hardly one of placid growth and unimpeded progress. Its regents, administration, faculty, and students have periodically fought one another: sometimes over matters as crucial as the University's purpose, shape, and destination. More often, battles waged over personalities. It is to these personalities that Knoll directs most of his attention. The author focuses on the men and women who made a difference, for good or ill. He locates the University's place in the changing intellectual and academic context of the United States and charts its passage through hard times and prosperity. He notes the contributions of the University to Nebraska, from the early experiments in sugar beet cultivation to the national fame of its football team. Most important, its education of generations of Nebraskans has lifted state goals and achievement, and its outreach has made the University an international community.
The Early Days
Author: Charles Anderson ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Marching with the First Nebraska
Author: August ScherneckauPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806138084
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
German immigrant August Scherneckau served with the First Nebraska Volunteers from 1862 through 1865. Depicting the unit's service in Missouri, Arkansas, and Nebraska Territory, he offers detail, insight, and literary quality matched by few other accounts of the Civil War in the West. His observations provide new perspective on campaigns, military strategy, leadership, politics, ethnicity, emancipation, and many other topics.