Nebraska MomentsU of Nebraska Press, 1. 1. 2007 - Počet stran: 428 An account of defining Nebraska moments, including: surviving the Oregon and Mormon trails; completing the Union Pacific Railroad; and winning national football championships, Nobel and Pulitzer prices, and presidential nominations. |
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1 The Villasur Expedition | 1 |
2 Old Bellevue | 9 |
3 The Oregon Trail | 15 |
4 The KansasNebraska Act | 23 |
5 The Pony Express | 30 |
6 Daniel Freeman and Homesteading | 37 |
7 Nebraska Statehood and Its First Governor | 47 |
8 The Fight for the Capital | 55 |
22 The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 andNebraskas Doctors | 182 |
23 Meyer v Nebraska 1923 | 192 |
24 Willa Cather and Her Pulitzer Prize | 204 |
25 The Nebraska State Capitol Great Plains Icon | 213 |
26 Nebraskas Wouldbe Vice Presidents | 221 |
27 The Pound Family | 234 |
28 Nebraskas Literary Renaissance | 248 |
29 George W Norris and the Unicameral | 261 |
9 Red Cloud and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 | 63 |
10 The Union Pacific Railroad | 73 |
11 The Murder of Crazy Horse at Fort Robinson | 81 |
12 The Trial of Standing Bear | 92 |
13 Buffalo Bill Cody and the Wild West Show | 102 |
14 The Great Nebraska Migration | 110 |
15 J Sterling Morton and Arbor Day | 121 |
16 The Blizzard of 88 | 129 |
17 William Jennings Bryan and Agrarian Protest | 135 |
18 The Rise of OmahaThe | 145 |
19 Charles E Bessey and the Nebraska National Forest | 154 |
20 Gen John J Pershing and World War I | 160 |
21 Fr Edward Flanagan the Abbott Sistersand Nebraskas Children | 171 |
30 The Nebraska Home Front and World War II | 271 |
31 Nebraskas Visual Feast | 280 |
32 Nebraskas Scientists | 290 |
33 Offutt Air Force Base | 301 |
34 The Ogallala Aquifer | 308 |
35 Omahas Gerald Ford and Malcolm X | 317 |
36 Becoming Madam Governor | 331 |
37 The University of Nebraska Football Champions | 342 |
38 The Murder of Brandon Teena | 358 |
39 The Kearney Arch | 370 |
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