Author: North Platte Chamber of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Platte (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Once Upon a Town
Author: Bob GreenePublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061751278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In search of "the best America there ever was," bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in a small Nebraska town few people pass through today—a town where Greene discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons. During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska, on troop trains en route to their ultimate destinations in Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town, wanting to offer the servicemen warmth and support, transformed its modest railroad depot into the North Platte Canteen. Every day of the year, every day of the war, the Canteen—staffed and funded entirely by local volunteers—was open from five a.m. until the last troop train of the day pulled away after midnight. Astonishingly, this remote plains community of only 12,000 people provided welcoming words, friendship, and baskets of food and treats to more than six million GIs by the time the war ended. In this poignant and heartwarming eyewitness history, based on interviews with North Platte residents and the soldiers who once passed through, Bob Greene tells a classic, lost-in-the-mists-of-time American story of a grateful country honoring its brave and dedicated sons.
This is North Platte, Nebraska
Author: North Platte Chamber of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Platte (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
North Platte
Author: Jim BeckiusPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439630127
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Situated at the junction of the North Platte and South Platte rivers, North Platte has a long history as an important stopping point in the westward migration of from the days of the California gold rush to the building of the transcontinental railroad and beyond. The Oregon Trail to the gold rush followed the South Platte River, and the Mormon Trail followed the North Platte River. In 1866 the building of the Union Pacific railroad stopped at North Platte for the winter. The railroad brought the town of North Platte to life. In 1869 the Union Pacific built a huge depot and hotel which stood until destroyed by fire in 1915. It entertained many famous visitors including William F. Cody, George Armstrong Custer, Bat Masterson, and Teddy Roosevelt. Since the 1920s North Platte has grown considerably, helped by the transcontinental Lincoln Highway which still runs through town. North Platte also had the first lighted runway in the United States, used for the air mail planes of the 1920s.
Evil Obsession
Author: Nellie S. YostPublisher: Dageforde Publishing
ISBN: 9781886225282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
North Platte, Nebraska
Author: Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309092302
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The tension between wildlife protection under the Endangered Species Act and water management in the Platte River Basin has existed for more than 25 years. The Platte River provides important habitat for migratory and breeding birds, including three endangered or threatened species: the whooping crane, the northern Great Plains population of the piping plover, and the interior least tern. The leading factors attributed to the decline of the cranes are historical overhunting and widespread habitat destruction and, for the plovers and terns, human interference during nesting and the loss of riverine nesting sites in open sandy areas that have been replaced with woodlands, sand and gravel mines, housing, and roadways. Extensive damming has disrupted passage of the endangered pallid sturgeon and resulted in less suitable habitat conditions such as cooler stream flows, less turbid waters, and inconsistent flow regimes. Commercial harvesting, now illegal, also contributed to the decline of the sturgeon. Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River addresses the habitat requirements for these federally protected species. The book further examines the scientific aspects of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's instream-flow recommendations and habitat suitability guidelines and assesses the science concerning the connections among the physical systems of the river as they relate to species' habitats.
An Early History of North Platte, Nebraska
Author: Mary Sophia HuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lincoln County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Nebraska Community Profile
Author: Nebraska. Department of Economic DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Lincoln Highway: Iowa
Author: Gregory M. FranzwaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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