Nebraska Moments

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U 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
Index
381
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