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First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Daniel D Spegel Author "Big, Ugly Red Brick Buildings": The Omaha city leaders touted the Jobbers NH 93 02 2012 054 083 Fight to Save Jobbers Canyon Canyon warehouse district as a key to downtown redevelopment, before EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE ConAgra decided it wanted the land. Thus ensued the largest-ever demolition of a district listed on the National Register of Historic Places Nick Batter Author Shoulders of Atlas (The): Rural Base construction for America's first NH 93 02 2012 084 101 Communities and Nuclear Missile intercontinental ballistic missile, the Base Construction in Nebraska, 1958- atlas, pushed several rural Nebraska 1962 communities to the front lines of the Cold War, bringing needed jobs, but EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE also drawing protestors c contesting the nuclear program. Deb Arenz Author Illustrator's Pencil (The): John Falter Born in Plattsmouth and raised in NH 93 01 2012 002 027 from Nebraska to the Saturday Falls City, John Falter became one of Evening Post the nation's most successful illustrators because he knew how to EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE capture the spirit of the times. His illustrations for ads, articles, and magazine covers provide a window into mid-twentieth century American culture. Chris Rasmussen Author Vox Populi of Omaha: Todd Storz and Omaha radio station owner Todd NH 93 01 2012 028 045 the Top 40 Radio Format in American Storz played a key role in pioneering Culture the Top 40 format in the 1950s. He was a figure of national significance, EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE permanently changing radio programming with an approach that was "vibrantly populist, crassly commercial, and undeniably young." Mark Smith Author Early Years of Talk Radio (The): Political talk dominates the AM NH 92 01 2011 002 013 Larry Walklin Author WJAG, Norfolk, Nebraska airwaves today, but in 1946 and 1947, EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Norfolk station WJAG found its broadcast license in jeopardy due to controversial on-air commentary. Jo L Behrens Author “Painting the Town”: How Merchants How does one build an art community NH 92 01 2011 014 039 Wetherilt Marked the Visual Arts to Nineteenth- in a frontier town? As Omaha grew, Century Omahans local merchants used their wealth and EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE influence to promote art appreciation and the concept of art patronage. First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page David Royce Murphy Author Art of the Panorama (The) Panoramic art came to Omaha in the NH 92 01 2011 040 041 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE 1880s, but it had earlier connections to Nebraska and the Great Plains Thomas Irvin Author Political and Journalistic Battles to Though Senator George Norris was NH 92 01 2011 042 049 Create Nebraska’s Unicameral the unicameral’s best-known Legislature (The) promoter, he had important allies EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE during the campaign of 1934 David Kruger Author Main Street Empire: J C Penney in By the late 1920s J C Penney had NH 92 02 2011 054 069 Delbert Nebraska stores in more than fifty Nebraska EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE communities – more than any retailer before or since. Martha H Fitzgerald Author Courtship of Two Doctors: 1930s Joe Holoubek and Alice Baker trained NH 92 02 2011 070 077 Letters Spotlight Nebraska Medical in Omaha and New Orleans. Their Training correspondence reveals the risks and EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE day-to-day triumphs of 1930s medicine. Postcards from Long Pine Picture postcards from Nebraska’s NH 92 02 2011 078 081 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Hidden Paradise provide glimpses of recreational travel in the 1910s and 1920s. Rebecca A Buller Author Intersections of Place, Time, and Hidden Paradise, located in a forested NH 92 02 2011 082 095 Entertainment in Nebraska’s Hidden canyon at Long Pine, drew travelers Paradise by rail and automobile to enjoy a EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE mixture of outdoor recreation and live entertainment in the early-to-mid twentieth century. Jesse J Otto Author Dan Desdunes: New Orleans Civil Dan Desdunes lived a remarkable life NH 92 03 2011 106 117 Rights Activist and “The Father of as a bandleader, educator, and civil Negro Musicians of Omaha” rights activist. In his native New EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Orleans, he played a key role in an unsuccessful legal challenge to railway segregation that led to the U.S. Supreme Court's infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decision. In Omaha, he became a successful bandleader who also volunteered at Father Flanagan's Boys Home, where he trained the boys for fundraising musical tours.

2 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Patricia C Gaster Author Nebraska Statesman (The): The An iconic Solomon Butcher NH 92 03 2011 118 123 People Behind the Picture photograph portrays a frontier EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE newspaper office in Broken Bow. But the story of the two men who founded the short-lived paper has not been told until now. They came to central Nebraska full of ambition, but their lives soon went in very different directions. David R Christensen Author “I Don’t Know What We’d Have A labor shortage during World War I NH 92 03 2011 124 147 Done Without the Indians”: Non- left western Nebraska potato farmers Indian and Lakota Racial facing the loss of their crop. They Relationships in Box Butte County’s brought in Lakota (Sioux) Indians as Potato Industry, 1917-1960 harvesters, beginning a tradition that EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE lasted from 1917 through the 1950s. The story is one both of prejudice and understanding, cooperation and conflict--and of long-lasting relationships forged by economic necessity. James E Potter Author Horses: The Army's Achilles' Heel in Civil War armies relied heavily on NH 92 04 2011 158 169 the Civil War Plains Campaigns of horses. Armies in the field equipped 1864-1865 with artillery, cavalry, and supply trains required one horse or mule, on EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE average, for every two men. Horses fit for service became scarce by the war's final years. Far from the major eastern battlefields, regiments such as the First Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry felt the brunt of the equine shortage. Kristin Mapel Author "How shall We Make Beatrice Grow!" For a young frontier town like NH 92 04 2011 170 183 Bloomberg Clara Bewick Colby and the Beatrice Beatrice, a library wasn't just about Public Library Association in the books. It was also a means for 1870s propagating social values, and it created pathways for women to EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE exercise leadership in the community. The town's first privately funded library faced challenges of censorship, public indifference, and competition from an unexpected rival.

3 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Todd Guenther Author "The Kingdom of Heaven at Hand": In the racially charged atmosphere of NH 92 04 2011 184 193 Rev. Russel Taylor and the Struggle 1920s Omaha, Russel Taylor-a for Civil Rights in 1920s Omaha minister, teacher, musician, activist, and former homesteader-threw EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE himself into the struggle for dignity and civil rights. His story illustrates some of the difficulties facing black leaders during the generations between the end of slavery and the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s. John D McDermott Author Plains Forts (The): A Harsh The United States Army had an NH 91 01 2010 002 015 Environment almost impossible task to perform EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE during the last half of the nineteenth century. Fewer than 15,000 men guarded some 3,000 miles of frontier and an equal length of seacoast. August Scherneckau Editor Soldiering in the Platte Valley, 1865: After serving in Missouri and NH 91 01 2010 016 051 James E Potter Editor A Nebraska Cavalryman’s Diary Arkansas in the Civil War, the First Edith Robbins Editor EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry was Edith Robbins Translator transferred to the Platte Valley to guard the transcontinental telegraph line and overland stagecoach stations. Pvt August Scherneckau’s diary tells of duty marked by exhausting riding, billowing dust, tormenting insects, chilling winds, numbing boredom, and an occasional dash after Indians. David L Bristow Author Post Script: Taking the Census 100 NH 91 01 2010 052 052 Years Ago Thomas R Buecker Author Letters from Home: Prisoner of War A 1943 envelope illustrates the long NH 91 02 2010 058 065 Mail at the Fort Robinson Camp and complicated process of sending during World War II and receiving mail between Nazi Germany and the Fort Prisoner of War EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Camp in Nebraska. Patricia C Gaster Author Signing the Pledge: George B Skinner NH 91 02 2010 066 079 and the Red Ribbon Club of Lincoln

EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Paul L Hedren Author Camp Sheridan, Nebraska: The Camp Robinson and Camp Sheridan, NH 91 02 2010 080 093 Uncommonly Quiet Post on Beaver both founded in 1874, had much in 4 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Creek common. Camp Robinson had a tumultuous history in the 1870s, however, while Camp Sheridan, under the influence of the leader Spotted Tail, existed quietly and then closed in 1881. This article includes lists of the units stationed at Camp Sheridan, the camp’s commanding officers and its doctors. Russ Crawford Author Nebraska Football and Michael A recent book examines the politics NH 91 02 2010 102 111 Oriard’s Bowled Over: A Review and social changes of big-time college Essay football during the past fifty years. Our reviewer examines issues of race, EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE power, and money in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s storied football program.

Post Script: Willa Cather: A Matter of NH 91 02 2010 112 112 Appearances Contents African Americans in Nebraska: A NH 91 03 2010 113 113 Special Double Issue David Bristow Introduction African Americans in Nebraska: A NH 91 03 2010 114 115 Special Double Issue James E Potter Author “Equality Before the Law”: Thoughts African Americans in Nebraska: A NH 91 03 2010 116 121 on the Origin of Nebraska’s State Special Double Issue 04 Motto Tekla Ali Johnson Author Always on My Mind: Frederick African Americans in Nebraska: A NH 91 03 2010 122 135 John R Wunder Douglass’s Nebraska Sister Special Double Issue 04 Abigail B Anderson David J Trowbridge Author “A Double Mixture”: Equality and African Americans in Nebraska: A NH 91 03 2010 136 151 Peavler Economy in the Integration of Special Double Issue 04 Nebraska Schools, 1858-1883 Orville D Menard Author Lest We Forget: The Lynching of Will African Americans in Nebraska: A NH 91 03 2010 152 165 Brown, Omaha’s 1919 Race Riot Special Double Issue 04 Jennifer Hildebrand Author New Negro Movement in Lincoln, African Americans in Nebraska: A NH 91 03 2010 166 189 Nebraska (The) Special Double Issue 04 Amy Helene Forss Author Mildred Brown and the De Porres African Americans in Nebraska: A NH 91 03 2010 190 205 Club: Collective Activism in Omaha, Special Double Issue 04 Nebraska’s Near North Side, 1947- 5 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page 1960

Postscript: Mocking the Klan African Americans in Nebraska: A NH 91 03 2010 220 220 Special Double Issue 04 “Out here among the infernal Red Appleton, a young clerk at the Red NH 90 01 2009 002 004 skins”: Frank Appleton’s 1874 Letter Cloud Agency, wrote to his family from Red Cloud Agency just weeks before he was fatally shot EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE by a Minneconjou warrior. His letter describes an Indian dance that he had seen and begs for news of family and friends. The Clay County Pig Club Song, 1922 Club members sang the praises of NH 90 01 2009 005 005 modern hog farming practices John A Sautter Author Social Transformation and the Drought and depression led to radical NH 90 01 2009 006 021 Farmers’ Alliance Experience: politics in 1890s Nebraska. Saunders Populism in Saunders County, County didn’t fit the typical profile, Nebraska but became a Populist stronghold EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE thanks to its robust Farmers’ Alliance culture. Daniel D Spegel Author The Missouri National Recreational In 1978 lawmakers hailed a fragile NH 90 01 2009 022 041 River: An Unlikely Alliance of alliance of landowners and Landowners and Conservationists conservationists who sought to protect EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE a rare “natural” stretch of the Missouri River. The result was not what they expected. Oliver B Pollak Author Looking for “Wide-Awake” Young High schools taught no office skills. NH 90 01 2009 042 050 People: Commercial Business Colleges taught the classics. By the Colleges in Nebraska, 1873-1950 late nineteenth century, entrepreneurs EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE founded business colleges as an alternative to both. James E Potter Author Post Script: “Bert” Martin’s Little NH 90 01 2009 056 056 Secret Jill Koelling Author Collecting Parks Edward and Margaret Gehrke’s NH 90 02 2009 058 065 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE photographs and travel diaries are an important source documenting early travel to America’s national parks. John Curtis Jenkins Author The National Game at Cody Did a legendary Sandhills baseball NH 90 02 2009 066 081 John E Carter Introduction EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE game between the Spade and Diamond Bar ranches really take place in 1890? It turns out that a hilarious 1916 account of the game was based 6 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page on real people and real events…with some improvements Patricia C Gaster Author Growing Celery in the Platte Valley A brief look at a forgotten experiment NH 90 02 2009 082 083 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE in Nebraska agriculture Kristin Mapel Bloomberg Author “Striving for Equal Rights for All”: Three times in the nineteenth century NH 90 02 2009 084 103 Woman Suffrage in Nebraska 1855- Nebraska considered granting full 1882 suffrage to women. When the third attempt ended in a resounding defeat in 1882, the suffrage movement abandoned the goal of achieving legislative change one state at a time. The national campaign waged after that Nebraska defeat culminated in the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution thirty years later. Post Script: Tom Mix in Omaha NH 90 02 2009 112 112

Anne Beiser Allen Author A Scandal in Niobrara: The The Reverend Samuel Dutton Hinman NH 90 03 2009 114 129 Controversial Career of Rev Samuel served for seventeen years as an D Hinman Episcopal missionary, government translator and advocate for the Dakota. In 1878 his superior dismissed him in disgrace because of persistent rumors of impropriety. The author suggests that Hinman’s reputation as an “Indian lover” may have been responsible for the rumors Patricia C Gaster Author Locating Callaway Founded in 1885, Callaway in Custer NH 90 03 2009 130 131 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE County experienced one of the hardest-fought town site battles in central Nebraska. Jeff Patrick Editor From Civilian Life to Army Life: Fred Though many Nebraskans served in NH 90 03 2009 132 161 Pickering’s World War I Narrative the Great War, we have few war EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE narratives written by them. Fred Pickering was a farmer from Ulysses, Nebraska, who wrote a lively account of army life for the folks back home. Post Script: The State Fair in Lincoln NH 90 03 2009 168 168

7 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Kylie Kinley Author Growing up on the Farm: Nebraska Nebraska Farmer magazine was the NH 90 04 2009 170 179 Farmer Youth Pages, 1904-1965 only outlet most rural Nebraska EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE children had to reach the world outside their schools and farms. For half a century, they voiced their dreams, concerns, and questions in the magazine’s youth column. Tina Koeppe Author “Omaha Charley” and the Bristol During the 1870s-1890s “Omaha NH 90 04 2009 180 189 Collection of Native American Charley” Bristol traveled the dime Artifacts museum and lecture hall circuit, giving lectures about Indian life and culture. Visitors viewed his photographs and Indian artifacts and saw performances by entertainers. Although some items were not authentic, the Bristol collection educated and continues to educate the public about Nebraska’s Native Americans and its “Wild West” era. Janet R Daly Bednarek Author Creating an “Image Center”: In 1986 downtown Omaha saw the NH 90 04 2009 190 207 Reimagining Omaha’s Downtown and loss of one major employer (Enron) Riverfront, 1986-2003 and was facing the potential loss of EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE another (ConAgra). The riverfront, meanwhile, was an industrial zone dominated by a lead refinery. Omaha’s return to the river involved an extensive reconceptualization of the downtown and riverfront. Deb Arenz Author For the People: Nebraska’s New Deal During a time of economic crisis, the NH 90 04 2009 208 211 Art federal government commissioned EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE works of art that reflected the “American Scene.” Here are selected works from a current exhibit at the Nebraska History Museum. David L Bristow Author Post Script: A Western Nebraska NH 90 04 2009 232 232 Road Trip L Robert Puschendorf Author The Halls of Hallmark: The Nebraska The Hall brothers’ formative years in NH 89 01 2008 002 013 Years Nebraska, and those of the youngest brother, Joyce Hall, became the inspiration that brought him success as the founder of Hallmark Cards, Inc., 8 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page the world’s foremost supplier of greeting cards. Dennis N Mihelich Author From the Depths: Prince Hall Prince Hall Masonry is an African NH 89 01 2008 014 025 Masonry in Nebraska, 1930-1960 American fraternal organization that arose because blacks were excluded from white Masonic lodges. The Prince Hall Mason Grand Lodge of Nebraska (PHGLN) nearly died out in the 1930s and then soared to new heights during the 1950s. This article details the turbulent thirty years between the onset of the Great Depression and the dawn of the 1960s. James E Potter Author The Governor’s House, the People’s The idea that Nebraska should provide NH 89 01 2008 026 041 House: Nebraska Governors’ living quarters for its governors was Residences slow to catch on. Finally, in 1899 the state purchased a house that became the first of two official residences in which Nebraska governors have lived. James Potter Author Post Script: Mr Clarke’s Long Bridge NH 89 01 2008 052 052

William E Lass Author Mythical Platte River Voyage of the While the El Paso was a real NH 89 02 2008 054 066 Steamboat El Paso (The) steamboat, her alleged Platte River trip was a myth. Roger P Davis Author “Service not Power”: The Early Years Political and social changes after NH 89 02 2008 067 083 of the Nebraska Commission on World War II eventually resulted in Mexican-Americans, 1971-1975 more equitable treatment for the Latino community in Nebraska. Although that community’s splinter groups argued for years over concepts of identity and strategies for effective action, in 1972 Nebraska became the first state in the nation to establish a Statutory agency charged with advocacy on behalf of the Hispanic population. Patricia C Gaster Author A Fallen Victim to “the Liquor The 1906 murder of a well-known NH 89 02 2008 084 093 Curse”: The Life and Tragic Death of newspaperman and temperance Samuel D Cox advocate may have been a factor in the adoption of restrictions on saloons and alcohol consumption in Nebraska. 9 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page James E Potter Author Post Script: Mr Bryan’s Day in the NH 89 02 2008 100 100 Sun Vicki Howard Author The Rise and Fall of Rudge & Downtown department stores, such as NH 89 03 2008 102 119 Guenzel: From Independent Retailer Lincoln’s Rudge & Guenzel, seemed to Department Store Chain to be from another, more authentic EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE world that has little in common with today’s commercial spaces. Nathan B Sanderson Author More Than a Potluck: Shared Meals Shared meals were the cornerstone of NH 89 03 2008 120 131 and Community-Building in Rural events and celebrations in Nebraska’s Nebraska at the Turn of the Twentieth early years, offering rural families a Century chance to gather, socialize, and escape EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE the lonely drudgery that filled much of their lives. John E Carter Author The Platte River Road in 1866: In 1866 Charles Savage made the NH 89 03 2008 132 141 Charles Savage’s Visual Narrative earliest known photograph of EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Chimney Rock and several other rare images, providing a unique visual record of one of the last years of wagon travel along Nebraska’s Great Platte River Road. James E Potter Author Post Script: The Chrisman Sisters NH 89 03 2008 152 152

Alexandra M Wagner Author Grasshoppered: America’s Response It was a plague of biblical proportions, NH 89 04 2008 154 167 to the 1874 Rocky Mountain Locust influencing generations of federal Invasion agricultural policy. EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE Patricia C Gaster Author “A 1914 Cartoon Calendar”: Longtime Omaha World-Herald NH 89 04 2008 168 175 Drawings by Guy R Spencer cartoonist Guy Spencer displayed his EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE wit and his unique style of drawing in a series of cartoons for every month of the year. Todd Guenther Author The Empire Builders: An African This article provides vivid details of NH 89 04 2008 176 200 American Odyssey in Nebraska and ex-slave African American families Wyoming lives as they became homesteaders in Nebraska in the late nineteenth century and in Wyoming in the early twentieth century. In 1908 they founded the town of Empire, Wyoming, about thirty miles northwest of Scottsbluff. They settled there because of a Wyoming school 10 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page segregation law that allowed the black settlers to form their own public school and hire their own teacher. In most ways, the lives of these black settlers at Empire differed little from those of their white contemporaries. Drought and a poor agricultural economy eventually led to the community’s abandonment by the mid-1920s. James E Potter Author Post Script: Dedicating Nebraska’s NH 89 04 2008 222 224 Lincoln Memorial, 1912 Ephriam D Dickson III Author Capturing the Lakota Spirit, Nineteenth-century photographers NH 88 01 2007 002 025 Photographers at the Red Cloud and specialized in portraits but also sold 02 Spotted Tail Agencies views of general interest. On their way to take pictures of the Black Hills gold rush, eight photographers visited the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Agencies between 1874 and 1877. The article includes short biographies of the photographers, details of their work at the agencies, and locations of archives of their agency photographs. L, R W Ballad on Nebraska Fuel NH 88 01 2007 026 027 02 Patricia C Gaster Author Bad Grammar and Sensational Style, Long before Nebraska ratified the NH 88 01 2007 028 041 The Daily Bumble Bee and the Fight Eighteenth Amendment to the US 02 for Prohibition in 1890 Constitution, anti-alcohol sentiment was a contentious force in territorial and state politics. The Daily Bumble Bee figured prominently in the fight for Prohibition in 1890 in Nebraska, though it survived less than one week. It ceased publication as soon as the results of the 1890 election were definitely known, having provided a last-minute boost to the pro- amendment cause. Raymond Screws Author Tools of Ethnic Identity NH 88 01 2007 042 054 02

11 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Don Cunningham Author Post Script: The Lincoln Flood of NH 88 02 2007 060 060 1908 02 Sharon L Kennedy Author Nebraska Women Artists, 1880 – Twelve highly talented nineteenth and NH 88 03 2007 062 095 1950 early twentieth century women left an enduring artistic legacy and greatly influenced the arts in this young prairie state. John Carter Author Post Script: A Pan of Fudge NH 88 03 2007 108 108

Deborah Fink Author Who Are We? Race and Ethnicity in a Nebraskans, like other Americans, NH 88 04 2007 110 125 1950s Nebraska Town were generally unaware of their specific European connections and identities in the 1950s. Only more recently has ethnicity has come to be recognized as a source of Nebraska beliefs and values. Lori Cox-Paul Author John M Chivington “The Reverend A famous military commander and NH 88 04 2007 126 137 Colonel” “Marry-Your-Daughter” preacher, Chivington was a very 142 148 “Sand Creek Massacres" controversial figure. He led the force that butchered a sleeping Indian village in the Sand Creek Massacre. His private life included lying, theft, arson, and marriage to his former daughter-in-law, whom he then abandoned. The Long View: Reading a Four historians and a photographer NH 88 04 2007 138 141 Photograph “read” two photographs—a panoramic from Garden County taken in 1917 and a modern-day equivalent. Debra Brownson Author Post Script: Everyone Come! NH 88 04 2007 168 168

James E Potter Author Putting Boyd County on the Map: The tragedy of the Ponca Indians led NH 87 01 2006 002 009 Adjusting Nebraska’s Northern to Nebraska’s last significant land Boundary acquisition, Boyd County. The story of how the northern boundary of Nebraska was negotiated in the 1880s includes government ineptitude and bad faith, political manipulation, and the total disruption of the Poncas’ lives.

12 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page David Murphy Author Bold and Daring: The Lone Oak The Lone Oak building, five miles NH 87 01 2006 010 015 west of Lincoln on U S Highway 6, built in 1944 and occupied in 1945, was constructed with straw bale technology. The two-story building in Lincoln appeared to be the embodiment of modernity using large, fixed, plate glass windows and modernistic design. The selection of the use of walls built of bales of hay was influenced by wartime wood and steel shortages. David Murphy Author The Lone Oak – How Did They Do This article contains an explanation of NH 87 01 2006 016 017 That? the straw bale structural system of the Lone Oak Building, built in 1944 six miles west of Lincoln, Nebraska. John E Carter Author Tragedy at the Lone Oak On August 26, 1958, the owners of NH 87 01 2006 018 026 The Lone Oak Building six miles west of Lincoln, were found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning. This is the story of their deaths and the ensuing legal battles of the families of the deceased, Thomas M Bentley and Nola Bailey. Recommended by Duncan Hines. Today the name Duncan Hines is NH 87 01 2006 027 027 Isn’t that a Cake Mix? associated only with packaged foods, but in the middle of the twentieth century, Duncan Hines was a food critic whose recommendations strongly influenced American’s restaurant choices. Thomas D Thiessen Author Wallace Cadet Taylor and the Last US This is the story of the military career NH 87 01 2006 028 043 Volunteers of a little-known Nebraska Officer, who served in both the Spanish- American and Philippine-American wars. As such, it is a case study in the evolution of the American "citizen soldier. John Carter Author Post Script: Nebraska’s Straw Bale This article presents a brief NH 87 01 2006 052 052 Church description of Pilgrim Holiness Church in Arthur, Nebraska, constructed of rye straw bales in 13 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page 1927-1928.

L Robert Puschendorf Author Petroleum, Politics, and Prices: Outrage at high gas prices isn't new -- NH 87 02 2006 054 081 Omaha’s Gas War of 1924 in 1924 the governor threatened to open state stations, the attorney general took fifteen oil companies to court, and a gas war was good news to Omaha drivers L Robert Puschendorf Author Standard Oil’s “Bungalow” Filling The first filling stations were a far cry NH 87 02 2006 082 085 Stations from today's sleek emporiums offering not only gas and oil but everything from lug nuts to latte. In 1914, however, Standard Oil began to make improvements. John Carter Author Post Script: Gasahol—The First Time NH 87 02 2006 096 096 Around Tom White Author From McCook to Whispering Smith Frank H Spearman, a prolific writer of NH 87 03 2006 098 119 railroad fiction, created courageous characters who risked all for order and progress. His writing style may seem idealistic and stilted today, but his early stories are reservoirs of cultural and historical value to Nebraskans. They offer rich profiles of men who dared to run clattering, primitive machines across the Plains, forging a lifeline to settlers. Oliver Pollak Author Nebraska’s Libraries at War, 1917- In the First World War, Nebraska had NH 87 03 2006 120 132 1919 the opportunity to share of one million dollars that the War Council hoped to raise by October 1, 1917, to build, equip, and stock libraries for soldiers in thirty-two camps and cantonments. It was believed that the citizen army would be more effective and efficient if the troops lived clean, intelligent, and moral lives, and the American Library Association worked diligently to support the war effort by working toward that end.

14 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Donald B Cunningham Author Post Script: Ghost in the Camera NH 87 03 2006 140 140 (The) Gottlieb F Oehler Author Visit to the Pawnee (A) Two Pennsylvania members of the NH 87 04 2006 142 172 David Z Smith Author Church of the Brethren visited the Richard E Jensen Editor Pawnee in Nebraska in 1851 to determine whether the Indians would welcome the presence of missionaries. Heavy rains made tent camping and river crossings very difficult for the travelers. This account of their trip concludes with a description of the “Manner and Customs of the Pawnee” that emphasizes the subservient role of Pawnee women. John Carter Author Post Script: Nebraska Corn Helps Win NH 87 04 2006 192 192 the War Lewis O Saum Author Good Die First (The): The Meteoric In 1886 Ottomar H Rothacker of the NH 86 01 2005 002 013 and Brief Career of O H Rothacker Omaha Republican began a campaign of "slashing and murderous invective" aimed at the Omaha Bee and its fiery editor Edward Rosewater. Joseph G Rosa Author Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, "Wild Bill" Hickok, billed as "the NH 86 01 2005 014 025 and the Grand Buffalo Hunt at most celebrated Scout and Hunter of Niagara Falls the Plains," began his show-business career in 1872 in Niagara Falls with a staged hunt and a few weary buffalo captured in Nebraska. Tommy Thompson Author Who Killed Maud Rubel? A Case of When a young white woman, Maud NH 86 01 2005 026 036 Black and White in Omaha, 1894 Rubel, was found dead in South Omaha, suspects included Sam Payne, an African-American who had lived in a building near the crime scene. In spite of conflicting eyewitness reports and the fact that Payne recanted his original confession, he was convicted. Racial beliefs of the day, expressed in newspaper articles, played a role in his sentencing. After ten years in prison Payne was pardoned by the governor. Post Script: Wild Bill and Rock Creek NH 86 01 2005 044 044 Station 15 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Melissa Marsh Author Still the Old Marlene: Hollywood at Could Hollywood help the War NH 86 02 2005 046 061 the Fort Robinson Prisoner of War Department convince German 03 Camp prisoners to reject their country's Nazi regime and accept American style democracy without violating the Geneva Convention? Steven J Ramold Author “Altogether a Horrible Spectacle”: Four men convicted of violent NH 86 02 2005 062 077 Public Executions in Nebraska, 1891 murders committed between 1888 and 03 1890 were all hanged in Nebraska in 1891, although multiple executions in the state in a single year were exceptional. The author describes the crimes, arrests, trials, and deaths of the four men. Come an’ Get It! From a dozen cowboys at the chuck NH 86 02 2005 078 091 wagon to a chic 1953 housewife 03 making cookies in her Lincoln kitchen, photographs from the NSHS archives show that eating is the most universal of cultural activities. Michael Kuzma Author Kicking the Habit: Nebraska’s 1905 Anti-smoking sentiment is in the air, NH 86 02 2005 092 096 Anti-Cigarette Law but this is not the first time we've tried 03 to kick the habit. In 1905 the state legislature enacted tobacco bans to protect Nebraskans' health and morals. Post Script: James C Olson, 1917- Photo NH 86 02 2005 108 108 2005 03 Kathleen Alonso Author 3,937 Pounds of Letters: National Air For one day in 1938, hundreds of NH 86 04 2005 110 123 Mail Week in Nebraska, May 1938 Nebraska towns-from Chadron to Beatrice, Emerson to Bridgeport, with Ong and Elsie, Wauneta and Wilber in between- had direct airmail service. John Carter Author Landmarks on Paper For Air Mail Week in 1938 more than NH 86 04 2005 124 131 two hundred Nebraska communities created their own commemorative designs for airmail envelopes, and the result is a study in local pride. Liz Watts Author Flying Newsboy Takes to the Air The McCook Daily Gazette was the NH 86 04 2005 132 145 (The) first newspaper to deliver by air on a regular basis. Harry D Strunk, publisher of the Gazette, adopted air 16 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page delivery to increase recognition of the purchasing power of farm families, poor road conditions, rising postal rates, and the public’s fascination with aviation. Sandra K Sagala Author Buffalo Bill Cody v Doc Carver: The NH 85 01 2004 002 015 Battle over the Wild West Oliver B Pollak Author Write Soon: Small Stories from Penny NH 85 01 2004 016 023 Postcards Michael De La Garza Author Lynching of Juan Gonzalez (The) Omaha Police Detective Tom Ring NH 85 01 2004 024 037 was gunned down in 1915. A statewide search for his killer ended with the death of a Mexican immigrant, Juan Gonzalez. Spectators did not agree about the circumstances of Gonzalez’s death, but there is evidence of racist hysteria directed against him. Mark R Ellis Author Hanging Out the Shingle: Nineteenth- NH 85 01 2004 038 052 Century Lawyers in Nebraska’s Platte Valley Richard E Jensen Editor “One Thousand Miles from Home on NH 85 02 2004 058 114 the Wild Prairie”: Charles B Darwin’s 1849 Nebraska Diary James A Roeder Author One Hundred and Second Congress NH 85 03 2004 116 125 and the Niobrara Scenic River (The): Old Arguments, New Compromises Donald B Cunningham Author Niobrara Valley (The): A Biological NH 85 03 2004 126 127 Crossroads James E Potter Author Legend of Rawhide Revisited (The) The Rawhide legend is associated NH 85 03 2004 128 139 with the mid-nineteenth century overland migrations of the American West. Shooting an Indian without provocation and skinning a man alive are consistent themes in many versions of the story. This article includes variations on the basic tale and an alternate explanation for places named Rawhide. Angelo J Louisa Author Growing Pains in the River City: The NH 85 04 2004 148 155

17 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Robert P Nash Author Development of Professional Baseball in Nineteenth-Century Omaha Andrea I Faling Author Local Heroes: Nebraska Hometown NH 85 04 2004 156 171 Baseball Gregory Bond Author Too Much Dirty Work: Race, In 1892, the Nebraska State League NH 85 04 2004 172 185 Manliness, and Baseball in Gilded for baseball was partially integrated. Age Nebraska Controversy abounded over whether “colored” players had both the ability to play and the ability to be “colored gentlemen.” The League’s early demise was only partially due to the rampant racial controversy. Finances and contract jumping also played a part. Jeffrey Powers-Beck Author Role New to the Race (A): A New The Nebraska Indians baseball team NH 85 04 2004 186 203 History of the Nebraska Indians played longer and more successfully than the many other American Indian professional teams of the early twentieth century. The players confronted discrimination, but their skilled performances earned the admiration of baseball fans. David Murphy Author Old Cuts in New Wood, Traditional NH 84 01 2003 002 017 Czech Carpentry in the Central Great Plains James E Potter Author Twenty five More Years, The NH 84 01 2003 018 035 Nebraska State Historical Society, 1979 – 2003 Valerie Mathes Editor “I Plead for Them” Fletcher’s letter, based on her NH 84 01 2003 036 041 Sherer Lowitt Editor An 1882 Letter from Alice experience on the Omaha Reservation, Richard Cunningham Fletcher to Senator recommends that the government Henry Dawes recognize the individual needs of different Indian groups. She describes the daily life of the Omahas and offers practical strategies that would help to ensure their adaptation to reservation life. James E Potter Author A Cow on the Roof and a Bullet in the Solomon D Butcher’s 1886 NH 84 01 2003 042 047 Head? A New Look at a Solomon D photograph of the Sylvester Rawding Butcher Photograph homestead at West Union, Custer County, Nebraska, has appeared many 18 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page times. This article delves into more minute details now evident with digital scanning technology. Recovered Views: African American The editor’s note and an introductory NH 84 02 2003 059 107 Portraits, 1912 – 1925 essay by Edward F Zimmer and Abigail B Davis explain the significance of this traveling exhibition of forty early twentieth- century portraits made in Lincoln by John Johnson. They provide an insider’s view of a small but thriving African American community in a growing city. Notes following the photographs identify some of the people and sites pictured.

See also the article “The New Negro Movement in Lincoln, Nebraska” for detailed comments on some of the pictures in “Recovered Views.” Notes to the Photographs, Recovered NH 84 02 2003 107 114 Views Exhibit African American Resources at the This list includes the Historical NH 84 02 2003 115 116 Nebraska State Historical Society Society’s most significant resources related to the African American experience in Nebraska. It describes archival collections, gives bibliographical information for library materials, and provides contact information for other Nebraska institutions holding additional materials. Randolph W Baxter Author Homo-Hunting in the Early Cold War: During the 1940s, fears of sexual NH 84 03 2003 118 132 Senator Kenneth Wherry and the “perversions” in America grew Homophobic Side of McCarthyism markedly. These fears spilled over into the political realm. Joseph McCarthy and his fellow Nebraska Republican Kenneth Wherry figured prominently in this historic movement.

19 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Jonathan P Herzog Author Our Sacred Lithuanian Word: St NH 84 03 2003 133 141 Anthony’s Thirst for Cultural Homogeneity Tommy R Thompson Author John D Brady, the Philippine- NH 84 03 2003 142 153 American War, and the Martial Spirit in Late 19th Century America James E Potter Author Nebraska History on Nebraska NH 84 04 2003 162 175 Territory: A Reader’s Guide A Governor’s Gallery: Chief NH 84 04 2003 176 176 Executives of Nebraska Territory, 1854-1867 Other Nebraska History Articles NH 84 04 2003 177 180 Relating to Nebraska Territory L Boyd Finch Author Variegated Life of Norfolk’s’ NH 84 04 2003 181 193 Diamond Dick Patricia C Gaster Author “Straight Politics Pays After All”: NH 84 04 2003 194 205 Political Patronage and the Lincoln Post Office Fight, 1893 – 1894 James Potter Editor “Prairie Plow was at Work” (The): J NH 84 04 2003 206 213 Sterling Morton’s 1859 Address on Nebraska Agriculture Dennis N Mihelich Author Joslyns of Omaha: Opulence and NH 83 01 2002 002 014 Philanthropy Jill Marie Koelling Author Nebraska’s Lincoln Ambrotypes NH 83 01 2002 015 018

Kingsley M Bray Author Spotted Tail and the Treaty of 1868 Spotted Tail worked from 1866 on to NH 83 01 2002 019 035 create Brulé tribal consensus, gradually accepting the changes forced upon his people by government support for western settlement while doing all he could to protect their interests. Adaptation to reservation life was an unpopular and difficult process, but Spotted Tail understood that the Brulé band had no alternative. Richard Vaughan Author “Broad are Nebraska’s Rolling NH 83 01 2002 036 046 Plains”, The Early Writings of George Bird Grinnell George Bird Grinnell Author “Camp Life West of the Missouri”: Published under pen name Ornis NH 83 01 2002 047 049 Among the Sand Hills of Nebraska”

20 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Andrew B Wertheimer Author Admitting Nebraska’s Nisei: Japanese Other universities initially refused to NH 83 02 2002 058 072 American Students at University of accept Japanese American students Nebraska, 1942 – 1945 forced into World War II concentration camps. The University of Nebraska was among the first to welcome them. It eventually enrolled more Nisei students than all but two other institutions. The author asserts that this controversial acceptance resulted from humanitarian decisions made by a few individuals in Lincoln. James E Potter Author Fact and Folklore in the Story of This article examines available NH 83 02 2002 073 088 “John Brown’s Cave” and the evidence in order to determine the Underground Railroad in Nebraska extent to which John Brown’s Cave and the adjacent Mayhew log cabin in Nebraska City may or may not have contributed to the escape of fugitive slaves. It has been alleged that through Brown’s direct involvement, the “cave” was an important Underground Railroad station, sheltering scores if not hundreds of black fugitives who were making their way out of bondage. The article debunks the story of the cave, concluding that it is an example of folklore that demonstrates how generations of Nebraskans have come to regard the crusade against slavery as a meaningful part of their past. Patricia C Gaster Author Robert W Furnas, Nebraska Press Robert W Furnas’ publication NH 83 02 2002 089 097 Recollections, and the Oldest Nebraska Press Recollections, a state Newspaper Controversy press history completed in 1874 endeavored to provide dates of establishment, suspension, and change of ownership of Nebraska newspapers that existed at the time and/or prior to 1874. While largely accurate, it failed to mention the Nebraska Herald of Nemaha. A 42-year feud ensued regarding which was the oldest

21 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page continuously published paper in the state: the Nebraska Advertiser [Brownville] or the Nebraska City News. Jerome A Greene Author Faces of War: Five Soldiers of NH 83 02 2002 098 102 General Crook’s Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition, 1876 Harl Dalstrom Author I’m Never Going to be Snowbound An examination of the effects of the NH 83 03 2002 109 166 Again, The Winter of 1948 – 1949 in winter of 1948 – 1949 in Nebraska 04 Nebraska illustrates key changes that took place in the state in the second half of the twentieth century. Pamela Riney- Author But What Kind of Work Do the Rest Nebraska farm families were NH 82 01 2001 002 010 Kehrberg of you Do? Child Labor on Nebraska economic units, dependent upon the Farms, 1870-1920 labor of children as well as adults. Children’s responsibilities ranged from simple daily chores to being the family’s primary farmers or housekeepers. Patrick Kennedy Author Nemaha County’s African American The story of Nemaha County’s NH 82 01 2001 011 025 Community African American community involved a relatively small number people over a relatively short span of time. However, the experiences of these early black settlers raise questions whose answers may illustrate the broader African American experience in Nebraska. These questions concern the significance of small, one generational settlement as well as other patterns of African American settlement, such as those centered on the farmstead or the small community settled around employment (like the railroad). Other questions involve the interaction between blacks and whites, black social status, and racism in the press as well as the communities at large. Dennis N Mihelich Author George Joslyn, America’s First Media George Joslyn gained national NH 82 01 2001 026 037 Mogul prominence by creating a virtual 22 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page monopoly in the auxiliary printing business, supplying standardized, preprinted news to more than 12,000 newspapers in the United States. Robert W Larson Author Lakota Leaders and Government Led by determined chiefs like Red NH 82 02 2001 047 057 Agents: A Story of Changing Cloud, Gall, and Crazy Horse, the Relationships Lakota Sioux resisted federal control during the first years of transition to the reservation system. Only after the Battle of Wounded Knee and the Sioux Bill of 1889 did the federal overnment gain the upper hand. Michael L Tate Author Life Beyond Soldiering: NH 82 02 2001 058 068 Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Retirees Jerome A Greene Author Surrounding of Red Cloud and Red Colonel Ranald S Mackenzie’s men NH 82 02 2001 069 075 Leaf, 1876 (The): A Preemptive encircled the villages of Red Cloud Maneuver of the Great Sioux War and Red Leaf under cover of darkness one night in 1876. They confiscated horses and weapons and drove the Indians into Camp Robinson and eventually onto reservations in Dakota Territory and western Nebraska. This dismounting and disarming campaign helped bring the Sioux War to a close the following year. Photographic Epilogue to the Great In 1877 James H Hamilton NH 82 02 2001 076 081 Sioux War (A) photographed a group of army officers, veterans of the 1876 Sioux campaigns, relaxing at the Camp Robinson post trader’s store. Recent research has made it possible to identify those pictured and to more precisely date the photograph. William Tappan Editor “A great place for gambling whiskey The Missouri Mounted Volunteers NH 82 03 2001 090 121 Henry Tappan Editor drinking & roguery”, A Fort Childs invited a civilian artist, William Henry Ellen F Jensen Editor Diary, 1848 Tappan, to accompany them and Richard E create a record of their service in Nebraska in 1848. Tappan wrote in his diary about the soldiers’ daily lives: not only their frequent encounters with Native Americans, 23 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page but also their buffalo hunts, games and entertainments, even a religious service. Richard E Jensen Editor Soldiers’ Letters from Fort Childs, This article includes letters from two NH 82 03 2001 122 129 1848-49 military men stationed in Nebraska. A private describes for his brother at home the daily routines and distractions of the Missouri Mounted Volunteers. A captain in the regular army serving as commander of Fort Childs complains to his superior about inadequate shelter, clothing, and medical resources at the fort. William D Lock Author “As Independent as We Wished”: NH 82 04 2001 138 151 Elizabeth Scott and Alice Fish of Blaine County, Nebraska Fred W Peterson Author Tradition, Style and Structure: the NH 82 04 2001 152 162 Anglo-American I-House in Nebraska Timothy R Mahoney Author Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the The trial of Mary Sheedy and alleged NH 82 04 2001 163 179 Booster Ethos of the Gilded Age co-conspirator “Monday” McFarland (The) for the murder of Mary’s husband, John Sheedy, undermined the integrity of the “booster ethos,” shook middle class confidence, and exposed deep racial, gender, sexual, moral, and psychological tensions that threatened social order in Lincoln’s post-frontier society. David J Wishart Author Redemption of James Whitewater NH 82 04 2001 180 189 (The) Andrea Radke Author I Am Very Aspiring: Muirl Dorrough Muirl Dorrough represented the type NH 81 01 2000 002 011 and the Alliance Junior Normal of teacher in Western Nebraska who School was profoundly affected by the Alliance Junior Normal School [Hooker County] Virginia Foote Editor “Enrout for Pikes Peak”: The 1860 NH 81 01 2000 012 022 Richard E Jensen Editor Travel Diary of Gurdon P Lester Eric Bachenberg Author Music from the Soil of the American NH 81 01 2000 023 034 Midwest: Howard Hanson, Educator, Composer, Conductor

24 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page James E Potter Author First Nebraska’s Orphan Detachment While the Skirmish at Grand Prairie NH 81 01 2000 035 039 and the Skirmish at Grand Prairie, had no material effect upon the course 1864 of the war, more Nebraska troops were captured by the enemy in this skirmish and few of Nebraska’s Civil War soldiers suffered more hardship, fear, and frustration than Lieutenant Polock’s First Nebraska orphans in Arkansas and Missouri that summer and fall of 1864. Richard E Jensen Editor Editor’s Showcase: Love Letter from Letter from Henry Daum to Mary NH 81 01 2000 047 048 Pine Ridge Baumbgard, 1890 Jill Koelling Author Revealing History: Another Look at NH 81 02 2000 050 055 the Solomon D Butcher Photographs Jane A Funderburk Author How Fashionable were Women NH 81 02 2000 056 066 Settlers in Custer County, Nebraska?: Maternity Wear on the Nebraska Frontier, 1886-1892 Ludy T Benjamin Jr Author Platform Disaster: Harry NH 81 02 2000 067 073 Hollingworth and the Psychology of Public Speaking Mark Smith Author Karl Stefan, WJAG, and the The development of WJAG radio NH 81 02 2000 074 082 Congressional Campaign of 1934 from a pioneer stage to a full service facility with a liberal schedule of local information and entertainment catapulted Karl Stefan to popularity and to Congress in 1934. Stefan’s victory is an early example of the power of electronic media exposure and its potential impact on the political process. Gary E Moulton Author Lewis and Clark on the Middle NH 81 03 2000 090 105 Missouri Anne DeCorey Author Edgar Beecher Bronson, Nebraska’s NH 81 03 2000 106 115 “Ranchman” Patricia C Gaster Author From Brownville to Bryan: Journalist James D Calhoun spent twenty-five NH 81 03 2000 116 127 James D Calhoun in Nebraska, 1869- years, from 1869 to 1894, in southeast 1894 Nebraska working as a newspaperman and laboring in Democratic Party politics. Calhoun could delight his friends and readers with wonderful 25 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page anecdotes, sometimes blurring reality and fiction. James E Potter Editor I Thought it my Duty to Go: The Civil Twenty-two-year-old Thomas Edwin NH 81 04 2000 134 169 War Letters of Thomas Edwin Keen, Keen, a Pennsylvania native, joined First Nebraska Volunteer Infantry up with a group of diverse soldiers from Nebraska to fight on the Union side of the Civil War. He left behind twenty-three letters he wrote to family members between 1861 and 1864, providing a vivid description of his experiences as a private in the First Nebraska Volunteer Infantry. Tommy R Thompson Author Wearin’ of the Green: The Irish and NH 81 04 2000 170 178 Saint Patrick’s Day in Omaha Koelling Jill Marie Author Editor’s Showcase: The Blizzard of NH 81 04 2000 185 185 the Century Kent Blaser Author Where is Nebraska, Anyway? NH 80 01 1999 003 014

Robert W Richmond Author I Think I Know Where Nebraska Is NH 80 01 1999 015 016

Susanne K George Author Prairie State (The): Root-bound to NH 80 01 1999 017 020 Nebraska Fred Thomas Author Nebraska: Midlands and Diversity NH 80 01 1999 021 023

Phil Roberts Author West of Time NH 80 01 1999 024 025

Bradley H Baltensperger Author Labels, Regions, and Reality NH 80 01 1999 026 028

Michael Farrell Author There is No Place Like Nebraska NH 80 01 1999 029 032

Kent Blaser Author Closing Comments, but Not the Last NH 80 01 1999 033 035 Word Lawrence E Murphy Author Karlis Ulmanis: From University of NH 80 02 1999 046 054 Aivars G Ronis Author Nebraska Graduate to President of Arjijs R Liepins Author Latvia Laura McKee Hickman Author Thou Shalt Not Vote: Anti-Suffrage in Nebraska was one of the last states NH 80 02 1999 055 065 Nebraska, 1914-1920 west of the Mississippi to approve woman’s suffrage. The men of the state opposed giving the vote to women primarily because of ethnic or religious tradition. Fear that women 26 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page would support prohibition swayed many men. Even some women opposed woman suffrage, dreading the social changes that might result. Wendell W Oderkirk Author “Peculiar and Valuable Service” (A): NH 80 02 1999 066 079 Early Nebraska Nurse Training Schools, 1888-1926 Robert C Pettit Author Editor’s Showcase: The Hay Burner NH 80 02 1999 088 091 Stove David Murphy Author Foreword: The Place of Time NH 80 03 1999 094 094

R F Diffendal Jr Author Earth in Four Dimensions: NH 80 03 1999 095 104 Development of the Ideas of Geologic Time and History Janet L Jeffries Author Spacing Time: The Time Ball at NH 80 03 1999 105 108 Doane College Paul A Olson Author Reading Space as Time in Great NH 80 03 1999 109 122 Plains Recollective Architecture Gene A Thomsen Author Timing Space: Determining the NH 80 03 1999 123 128 Western Boundary of Nebraska David Murphy Author Space, Time, and Spacetime NH 80 03 1999 129 140

Francis Moul Author Biggest Partner (The): The Federal The Federal government has invested NH 80 04 1999 150 165 Government and Sioux County, significant resources in Sioux County Nebraska since the treaties with the Lakota Sioux freed the land for Euro- American settlement. It has been the major partner in providing infrastructure funding for projects: large irrigation systems, small pipeline systems, relief aid, and restoration of the land. Federal farm commodity support programs, conservation programs, and other federal programs continue, sometimes with unexpected results Oliver B Pollak Author Fred Morrow Fling: A One-Hundred- NH 80 04 1999 166 168 Year Retrospective on Historical Methodology Mary Grimes Author Adversity, Challenge, and Change: NH 80 04 1999 169 177 Cochran The Nebraska Board of Control 27 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page During Governor Cochran’s Administration, 1935-1941 Mary Krugerud Author Dazzler’s Story NH 80 04 1999 182 184

Karyn Stansbery Author Law at the end of the Trail: Ogallala, NH 79 01 1998 002 013 1873-1887 (The) Elizabeth Raby Author “Yours for Political Housecleaning”: NH 79 01 1998 014 023 Maud E Nuquist, First Woman Candidate for Governor of Nebraska William E Lass Author Nebraska City’s Steam Wagon NH 79 01 1998 024 033

Pollak Oliver B Author Capitalism, Culture, and Philanthropy: NH 79 01 1998 034 043 Charles N and Nettie Fowler Dietz of Omaha, 1881-1939 Editor’s Showcase: Queer Case – NH 79 01 1998 051 051 Desertion of a Soldier Guard and Two Convicts Mark Smith Author Early Years of Broadcasting in During the 1920s, Norfolk station NH 79 02 1998 054 068 Norfolk, Nebraska (The), 1922-1928 WJAG developed from a bulletin service of the Norfolk Daily News to a broadcast station that dispensed a variety of information and entertainment, and from hobby status to a business dependent on advertising. Future Congressman Karl Stefan became the area’s first widely- known on-air personality. Of three Nebraska newspaper publishers who established radio stations in the early 1920s, only WJAG continued to broadcast beyond the 1920s, celebrating its 75th anniversary in 1997. Andrea I Faling Author A Lost Lady in Hollywood NH 79 02 1998 069 073

Dennis N Mihelich Author Boom-Bust: Prince Hall Masonry in Prince Hall Masonry is an African NH 79 02 1998 074 084 Nebraska during the 1920s American fraternal organization that arose because blacks were excluded from white Masonic lodges. During the 1920s Prince Hall Masonry in Nebraska experienced a brief boom, 28 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page but by the middle of the decade a bust ensued. The 1924-25 industrial slump combined with the downturn in the agricultural sector curbed the influx of African American Americans to the state. At the onset of the Great Depression, Prince Hall Masonry was a weakened but viable and vital institution among the limited number of African Americans in Nebraska. Kingsley M Bray Author Crazy Horse and the End of the Great The surrender of Crazy Horse and the NH 79 03 1998 094 115 Sioux War members of his village at the Red Cloud Agency in May 1877 marked the end of the Great Sioux War. The author explores the influence of Lakota political organization and kinship networks on Crazy Horse’s decision to accept reservation life. Joseph Agonito Author Young Man Afraid of His Horses: The Young Man Afraid of His Horses NH 79 03 1998 116 132 Reservation Years played an important role in the Lakota peoples’ struggle to maintain their traditional way of life. After the death of Crazy Horse, Young Man Afraid sought ways for his people to adapt peacefully to the changing world of the reservation rather than trying to restore the grandeur of the old life through obstructionist politics. Richard E Jensen Author The Wright-Beauchampe The Pawnee tribe actively resisted the NH 79 03 1998 133 143 Investigation and the Pawnee Threat US Army and the white Americans of 1829 moving west in the early nineteenth century. An outbreak of smallpox, increasing numbers of white invaders, and perpetual skirmishes with other tribes diminished the Pawnees’ strength until they were placed on a reservation in Nebraska in 1854. Michael A Amundson Author Portrait of a Small Town: The NH 79 04 1998 150 161 Photographic Diary of Neligh’s Emanuel Wolfe 29 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page John D McDermott Author No Small Potatoes: Problems of Food NH 79 04 1998 162 170 and Health at Fort Laramie, 1849- 1859 Patricia C Gaster Author Rosa Hudspeth and the Stuart Ledger, Rosa Hudspeth (1864-1911) was a NH 79 04 1998 171 178 1901-1907 newspaper writer and reporter and then an editor of the Stuart Ledger [Nebraska] from 1901-1907. Her brief career at the Ledger is illustrative of the difficulties women faced in managing small businesses and dealing with employees, the public, and local politicians. Michele Fagan Author “Give ‘Till It Hurts:” Financing NH 79 04 1998 179 191 Memorial Stadium Wallace C Peterson Author Editor’s Showcase: Death in the NH 79 04 1998 210 211 Afternoon Harlan Jennings Author Grand Opera in Nebraska in the 1890s NH 78 01 1997 002 013

Lewis O Saum Author Eugene Field and the “Hayes Saloon” NH 78 01 1997 014 021 in Omaha, An Episode of 1885 Margaret Gehrke Author A Thousand Mile Motor Trip through NH 78 01 1997 022 027 May Patton Gehrke Photographer Western Nebraska, 1916 Edward Koelling Editor Arthur Jill Marie Dennis N Mihelich Author World War I, the Great Migration, and The focus and status of Prince Hall NH 78 01 1997 028 039 the Formation of the Grand Bodies of Masonry in Nebraska changed as Prince Hall Masonry World War I was ending. The African-American fraternity began to provide community service and to seek to expand civil rights. The Great Migration brought additional members into the state’s lodges and made it possible for them to form the independent Prince Hall Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star of Nebraska. Thomas R Buecker Author “The Men Behaved Splendidly”: Guy Captain Guy V Henry commanded NH 78 02 1997 054 063 V Henry’s Famous Cavalry Rides troops from Fort Robinson, Nebraska, on two winter marches, sixteen years apart: in 1874 and 1890. 30 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page David Drummond Author “The Delusion” of John Morris: A NH 78 02 1997 064 074 Better Mouse Trap and its Makers Patricia C Gaster Author Bix in Nebraska: A L Bixby and the A L “Doc” Bixby (1856-1934) was NH 78 02 1997 075 083 “Daily Drift” one of Nebraska’s best-known newspaper columnists and humorists. His forty-two years (1892-1934) on the staff of the Nebraska State Journal of Lincoln afforded him an informed view of Nebraska history from the days of William Jennings Bryan to those of FDR. Edward R Tyron Author Nebraska Connections to a Titanic The April 15, 1912, tragedy of the NH 78 02 1997 084 092 Disaster “unsinkable” Titanic is re-visited in this article recounting the stories of the survivors and victims with Nebraska ties. Though Emil Brandeis is the most famous, many others such as “Titanic Carl” Johnson (who settled in Swedeburg, Nebraska) and Victor Halva (who later settled in Wahoo, Nebraska), are included. Mary Grimes Author Books for Nebraska: Roy and Aileen Between 1935 and 1941, Democratic NH 78 03 1997 102 109 Cochran Cochran and the Nebraska Public Governor Robert L “Roy” Cochran Library Commission and his wife, Aileen Cochran, accomplished much: reestablishment of the Nebraska Library Commission, a tripling of its appropriations; new laws placing more attention on rural, western communities and regional libraries; and the establishment of bookmobiles to serve outlying areas. Rudolph E Umland Author The Federal Writers’ Project: A NH 78 03 1997 110 115 Nebraska Editor Remembers Joanna Scherer Author A Preponderance of Evidence: The NH 78 03 1997 116 121 Cohan 1852 Omaha Indian Delegation Daguerreotypes Anne M Oppegard Author For Posterity: Namesakes of Four NH 78 03 1997 122 133 University of Nebraska Buildings Samuel Sinner Author Famine in the Volga Basin, 1920-124, NH 78 03 1997 134 138 and the American Volga Relief Society Records 31 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page R Eli Paul Author Foreword Fort Robinson History Conference NH 78 04 1997 150 150 background remarks Frank N Schubert Author Ten Troopers: Buffalo Soldier Medal Ten of the twenty-three buffalo NH 78 04 1997 151 157 of Honor Men who served at Fort soldiers who received the Medal of Robinson Honor for actions in frontier conflicts or the Cuban Campaign of 1898 served at Fort Robinson. These included Ninth cavalrymen Emanuel Stance, George Jordan, Thomas Shaw, Henry Johnson, Augustus Walley, Brent Woods, and John Denny, William O Wilson, William H Thompkins, and George H Wanton. Mary L Williams Author Ladies of the Regiment: Their NH 78 04 1997 158 164 Influence on the Frontier Army John D McDermott Author Were They Really Rogues? Desertion During the nineteenth century one of NH 78 04 1997 165 174 in the Nineteenth-Century U S Army the most discussed and written about problems in the United States Army was that of desertion. Considered a crime in all armies, desertion was an act punishable by death. Attitudes toward desertion varied substantially during the century, and a history of these changes is included in this article. James E Potter Author “He…Regretted Having to Die That NH 78 04 1997 175 186 Way”: Firearms Accidents in the Frontier Army, 1806-1891 Jerome A Greene Editor Chasing Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse: This article contains diary entries NH 78 04 1997 187 201 Two Fourteenth US Infantry Diaries relating to the experiences of both an of the Great Sioux War officer and an enlisted man of the Fourteenth U S Infantry in the aftermath of the Rosebud and Little Bighorn encounters. The diaries of Frank Taylor, Lieutenant, Company I, and Private William Walter Jordan, Company C, provide insights into daily events during Crook’s exhausting late summer expedition through the Yellowstone-Powder River region to the Black Hills of 32 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Dakota.

Michael W Schuyler Author 1950s (The): A Retrospective View NH 77 01 1996 002 011

William L Hewitt Author “The Indian Who Never Got Home”: Sergeant John R Rice, Winnebago, NH 77 01 1996 012 020 The Burial of Sergeant John R Rice Nebraska, died in the Korean War. His interment in a private Sioux City, Iowa, cemetery was underway when an official there, learning that Rice was Native American, invoked a “Caucasians only” clause in the cemetery’s bylaws. When President Harry Truman learned of the cemetery’s refusal to bury a war hero, he offered the family a plot at Arlington National Cemetery, where Rice was buried a few days later. Phil Roberts Author Scotts Bluff National Monument and NH 77 01 1996 021 029 the Coming of Television to the Nebraska Panhandle Strategic Air Command Memorial Acknowledgements: Lt Col Thomas J NH 77 01 1996 030 032 Chapel (The) Land, director of staff, 55th Wing, U S Air Force; Anthony Godfrey, president, U S West Research Inc Melba Scott Author Witness to an Atomic Test NH 77 01 1996 033 044 Carol Ahlgren Author William C Pratt Author Change, Continuity, and Context in NH 77 01 1996 045 054 Nebraska History, 1940-1960 Robert M Utley Author Remarks at the Symposium “The Way NH 77 02 1996 062 066 West,” Lincoln, Nebraska Kent Blaser Author Something Old, Something New: NH 77 02 1996 067 077 Understanding the American West John D McDermott Author “We Had a Terribly Hard Time The engagements at Mud Springs and NH 77 02 1996 078 088 Letting Them Go”: The Battles of Rush Creek did not cause major Mud Springs and Rush Creek setbacks to either the army or the Cheyennes and Sioux. The army protected the emigrant trail and the transcontinental telegraph while the Indians continued to move toward the Powder River. Fighting intensified in the aftermath of these battles. 33 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Phillip G Twitchell Editor Camp Robinson Letters of Angeline Angeline Johnson, wife of an army NH 77 02 1996 089 095 Johnson, 1876-1879 captain, wrote lively letters home to her family in Pennsylvania from Camp Robinson in 1876. She described everyday life as well as major events including Indian surrenders at the end of the Great Sioux War, the death of Crazy Horse (which she witnessed), and the Cheyenne Outbreak. Gail DeBuse Potter Author The Crazy Horse Scalp Shirt This article examines the construction NH 77 02 1996 096 098 of the “Crazy Horse Scalp Shirt” to determine that it was not worn by the famous Oglala Sioux warrior Crazy Horse, despite this attribution in 1906 when acquired by the Nebraska State Historical Society as part of the Bristol collection. Paul L Hedren Author Battlefields as Material Culture: A Whether they are well-known or NH 77 02 1996 099 107 Case Study from the Great Sioux War largely forgotten, the battlefields of the Great Sioux War provide many examples of American military material culture. Most of them are both accessible to the public and intact. Some sites have been relocated after many years by scholars or enthusiasts. An appendix lists twenty- nine encounters of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877. Robert W Cherny Author Introduction Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan NH 77 03 1996 118 118 and His America 04 William E Christensen Editor The Cross of Gold Reburnished: A Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan NH 77 03 1996 119 123 Contemporary Account of the 1896 and His America 04 Democratic Convention Vachel Lindsay Author Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan NH 77 03 1996 124 128 and His America 04 Rebecca Edwards Author Popular Appeals in the Campaign of Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan NH 77 03 1996 129 139 1896 and His America 04 Kenneth C Wenzer Author Tolstoy and Bryan Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan NH 77 03 1996 140 148 and His America 04

34 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Julie Greene Author The Making of Labor’s Democracy: Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan NH 77 03 1996 149 158 William Jennings Bryan, the and His America During the years 04 American Federation of Labor, and 1896 to 1912, the Democratic Party Progressive Era Politics evolved from a conservative organization standing for states’ rights and limited government to an effective instrument for political, social, and economic reform. The alliance between organized labor and William Jennings Bryan figures predominantly in this transition. John E Carter Author Postcard Politics: The 1908 Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan NH 77 03 1996 159 166 Presidential Campaign and His America 04 Kendrick A Clements Author Secretary of State William Jennings Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan NH 77 03 1996 167 176 Bryan and His America 04 Stephen Jay Gould Author William Jennings Bryan’s Last Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan NH 77 03 1996 177 183 Campaign and His America 04 Robert W Cherny Author William Jennings Bryan and the Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan NH 77 03 1996 184 193 Historians and His America 04 W Raymond Wood Author Fort Charles or “Mr Mackey’s NH 76 01 1995 002 009 Trading House” Dennis N Mihelich Author Origins of the Prince Hall Mason Prince Hall Masonry is an African NH 76 01 1995 010 021 Grand Lodge of Nebraska (The) American fraternal organization that arose because blacks were excluded from white Masonic lodges. This article presents an early history of black Masons in Nebraska, piecing together limited documentary evidence from the establishment of the first lodge in 1875 through the formation of the Prince Hall Mason Grand Lodge of Nebraska in 1919. Andrea I Paul Author Nebraska’s Home Movies: The NH 76 01 1995 022 029 Nebraska Exhibit at the 1904 World’s Fair Oliver B Pollak Author Workmen’s Circle and Labor Lyceum In the early twentieth century the NH 76 01 1995 030 042 in Omaha, 1907-1977 (The) Omaha Workmen’s Circle provided medical and insurance benefits to arriving immigrants while supporting their socialist values. Nostalgia for the balls and picnics of the early days 35 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page kept the Circle going even after immigration quotas had severely limited the number of new members. Richard O Joyce Author “You Bet I Was Scared”: A Doolittle Special Issue: V-J Day, World War II NH 76 02 1995 054 065 Samuel Van Pelt Author Raider Remembers 03 Frederick T Daly Author Nebraska-Related Names of United Special Issue: V-J Day, World War II NH 76 02 1995 066 074 States Navy Ships 03 Beverly Russell Author World War II Boomtown: Hastings Special Issue: V-J Day, World War II NH 76 02 1995 075 083 and the Naval Ammunition Depot 03 W Raymond Wood Author Or Go Down in Flame: A Navigator’s Special Issue: V-J Day, World War II NH 76 02 1995 084 099 Death Over Schweinfurt 03 Douglas R Hartman Author Lawrence W Youngman: War Special Issue: V-J Day, World War II NH 76 02 1995 100 105 Correspondent for the Omaha World- 03 Herald Michele L Fagan Author Overseas With the ANC: Experiences Special Issue: V-J Day, World War II NH 76 02 1995 106 121 of Nebraska Nurses in World War II 03 Alex Meyer Author Karl Timmermann: From Pebble Special Issue: V-J Day, World War II NH 76 02 1995 122 128 Creek to the Rhine 03 Robert Hurst Author Nebraska Army Air Fields, A Pictorial Special Issue: V-J Day, World War II NH 76 02 1995 129 143 Review 03 David Murphy Author Rock in the Ground, Stone in the NH 76 04 1995 154 163 Wall: Czech Buildings from the Ogallala Deposition William G Chrystal Author Orville “Tubby” Ralston, Nebraska’s NH 76 04 1995 164 175 War Bird Todd M Kerstetter Author High Water: Flooding in the Elkhorn NH 76 04 1995 176 187 Basin, 1823-1940 Ludy T Benjamin Jr Author Santa Claus Survey (The): A NH 76 04 1995 188 194 Pioneering Nebraska Study in Child Psychology Introduction Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: NH 75 01 1994 006 007 Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska Ancient Seas: Shark-infested Coral Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: NH 75 01 1994 008 029 Seas; Sea Monsters and Dinosaurs Paleontology and Archaeology in (Part One) Nebraska Jungles and Savannas: Our Oldest Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: NH 75 01 1994 030 055 Mammals; Camels, Rhinos and Four- Paleontology and Archaeology in tuskers Nebraska

36 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Ice Age (The): Zebras and Giant Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: NH 75 01 1994 056 081 Camels; Mammoths and Muskoxen; Paleontology and Archaeology in Hooves and Horns Nebraska Ancient Nomads: Big Game Hunters; Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: NH 75 01 1994 082 107 The Foragers Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska Crops and Villages: The Early Potters; Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: NH 75 01 1994 108 131 Late Precontact Village Farmers Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska Cultures in Contact Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: NH 75 01 1994 132 155 Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska Conclusion Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: NH 75 01 1994 158 161 Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska Credits Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: NH 75 01 1994 162 162 Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska R Eli Paul Author Foreword The History and Ethnology of the NH 75 02 1994 164 164 Covers – Lakota woman and girl, Pine Lakota Sioux, a Special Issue Ridge Reservation, 1891; Sitting Bull’s rattle Kingsley M Bray Author Teton Sioux Population History, The History and Ethnology of the NH 75 02 1994 165 188 1655-1881 Lakota Sioux, a Special Issue

This essay demonstrates the central importance of population studies in interpreting tribal histories and to provide a framework for understanding the major trends of Sioux population from the time of European contact to the imposition of the reservation system. R Eli Paul Author Early Reference to Crazy Horse (An) The History and Ethnology of the NH 75 02 1994 189 190 Lakota Sioux, Editor’s Showcase Series

Chaplain Alpha Wright wrote a series of letters for his hometown newspaper describing conflicts between Plains Indians and the US Army. This 1870 37 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page letter describes a soldier who was going duck hunting when he was shot by an Indian identified as Crazy Horse. Thomas R Buecker Author Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger (The): The History and Ethnology of the NH 75 02 1994 191 194 A New Source for Red Cloud Agency Lakota Sioux, Editor’s Showcase History Series

The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger provides important information from the prereservation period of Plains Indian history. It includes family names and details about the composition of Crazy Horse band families and other Native Americans involved in the Sioux War surrenders. Paul L Hedren Author Crazy Horse Medal (The): An Enigma The History and Ethnology of the NH 75 02 1994 195 199 from the Great Sioux War Lakota Sioux, Editor’s Showcase Series

Little is known about a Union Pacific Railroad Museum medal engraved “for gallant services rendered to the whites at the death of Crazy Horse.” The author summarizes conjectures regarding the sponsorship of the medal, the circumstances in which it was presented, and those who might have received it. Jerry Green Author Medals of Wounded Knee (The) The History and Ethnology of the NH 75 02 1994 200 208 Lakota Sioux, Editor’s Showcase Series

Twenty soldiers, survivors of the Battle of Wounded Knee, received the Medal of Honor for “gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities.” This article examines the low standards in effect at that time for the awarding of the medal and suggests the randomness of the process of 38 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page choosing these medal recipients.

R Eli Paul Author Wounded Knee and the “Collector of The History and Ethnology of the NH 75 02 1994 209 215 Curios” Lakota Sioux, Editor’s Showcase Series

The truth surrounding many Wounded Knee artifacts may never be known. All should be evaluated critically, if not skeptically. The demand for Wounded Knee “curios” far outstripped the supply of authentic items. The method of obtaining such relics, which was documented by various newspaper correspondents, calls into question the authenticity of many such items currently on display. Sam S Kepfield Author El Dorado on the Platte: The NH 75 03 1994 232 243 Development of Agricultural Irrigation and Water Law in Nebraska James P Eckman Author Culture as Entertainment: The Circuit NH 75 03 1994 244 253 Chautauqua in Nebraska, 1904-1924 Thomas Magnuson Author Two Railroading Towns React to a When shop workers in Havelock NH 75 03 1994 254 260 Strike: Havelock and Plattsmouth in struck the Chicago Burlington and 1922 Quincy Railroad in 1921, there was open agitation and strong community antagonism towards the railroad, at least partially because the workers believed that their services were essential. Plattsmouth strikers and residents reacted more calmly, understanding that their shops could be eliminated in a period of railroad consolidation. Stephen Witte Author UNL Student Reaction to the NH 75 03 1994 261 271 Cambodian Incursion and the Kent State Shootings, May 1970 E A Kral Author Robert Taylor of Beatrice: The The least known of the great NH 75 04 1994 280 291 Nebraska Roots of a Hollywood Star Hollywood stars from Nebraska is the versatile Robert Taylor. Robert Taylor appeared in eighty motion pictures 39 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page and television films from 1934 to 1969, starred in one weekly television series and hosted another. He narrated two Academy Award-winning feature length documentaries, was the lowest- paid contract player in Hollywood history in 1934 and was under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for twenty-five years. Charles E Humberger Author Civilian Conservation Corps in NH 75 04 1994 292 300 Nebraska (The): Memoirs of Company 762 Richard E Jensen Author Pawnee Mission, 1834-1846 (The) NH 75 04 1994 301 310

James A Hanson Author Spain on the Plains NH 74 01 1993 002 021

James E Potter Editor Nebraska Cavalryman in Dixie (A): Sergeant Major Martin Stowell of NH 74 01 1993 022 031 The Letters of Martin Stowell Peru, Nebraska Territory, one of about 220 Nebraskans who served in the regiment first known as the Curtis Horse [later Fifth Iowa Cavalry], wrote a series of letters describing his army experiences to Brownville newspaperman Robert W Furnas. These letters were printed in the Nebraska Advertiser and are presented with background and commentary. George A Larson Author Nebraska’s World War II Bomber NH 74 01 1993 032 043 Plant: The Glenn L Martin-Nebraska Company Thomas R Buecker Author One Soldier’s Service: Caleb Benson Caleb Benson, an African American NH 74 02 1993 054 062 in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, 1875- soldier chose to make a permanent 1908 career in the Army after the Civil War, serving in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Units. Liz Watts Author Bess Furman, Nebraska’s Front Page NH 74 02 1993 063 071 Girl: Her Formative Years Daniel W Overton Author Spending the Indians’ Money: A Documentary and quantitative NH 74 02 1993 072 081 Quantitative Case Study of Oto- evidence provides reason to doubt Missouri Trust Fund Disbursements, whether the Oto-Missouri received the 1855-1881 full benefit of the consideration paid 40 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page to them for the 1854 cession of 1,700 square miles of prime Nebraska real estate. Carl Hugh Jones Editor Steamboat Captain David L Keiser’s NH 74 02 1993 082 086 Recollections of Life on the Missouri Lawrence J Sommer Author Foreword Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 102 103 Bruce M Garver Author Introduction Experience 04 Joseph G Svoboda Author Czech-Americans: The Love of Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 109 119 Liberty Experience 04 Josef Opatrny Author Problems in the History of Czech Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 120 129 Immigration to America in the Second Experience 04 Half of the Nineteenth Century Gregory C Ference Author Slovak Immigration to the United Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 130 135 States in Light of American, Czech, Experience 04 and Slovak History Lawrence H Konecny Author German and Czech Immigration to Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 136 141 Clinton Machann Author Texas: The Bremen to Galveston Experience 04 Route, 1880-1886 Zdenek Solle Author Czech Political Refugees in the Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 142 149 United States during the Nineteenth Experience 04 Century Bruce M Garver Author Czech-American Protestants: A Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 150 167 Minority within a Minority Experience 04 David Murphy Author Dramatic Expressions: Czech Theatre Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 168 182 Curtains in Nebraska Experience 04 Clinton Machann Author Evidence of Assimilation in Pavel Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 183 188 Albieri’s Nevasta za padesat dollaru Experience 04 (Bride for Fifty Dollars) Karel Pichlik Author Relationships between Czechs and Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 189 194 Slovaks in the United States during Experience 04 the First World War Ivan Dubovicky Author Czech-Americans: An Ethnic Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 195 208 Dilemma Experience 04 Mila Saskova- Author Czech-Language Maintenance in Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 209 217 Pierce Nebraska Experience 04 Frederick C Luebke Author Czech-American Immigration: Some Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 218 222 Historiographical Observations Experience 04 Acknowledgments Special Issue: The Czech-American NH 74 03 1993 223 223 Experience 04

41 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Wilma A Daddario Author ”They Get Milk Practically Every In an effort to assimilate Indian NH 73 01 1992 002 011 Day”, The Genoa Indian Industrial children into white society, non- School, 1884-1934 reservation boarding schools were built. Most of the children in the Genoa school made friends, adjusted to harsh conditions, and learned the art of showing a “white” veneer to get through their school years. But they paid a high price for their education in terms of their physical and emotional health. They were separated from their families and there was not enough money to adequately feed, clothe, and educate them. Carol Ahlgren Author Bad Roads and Big Hearts: Nebraska NH 73 01 1992 012 017 David Anthone Author and The Great Race of 1908 James P Eckman Author Promoting an Ideology of Culture: NH 73 01 1992 018 024 The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circles in Nebraska, 1878- 1900 George Wilson Author Gangland Crime Arrives in Lincoln: NH 73 01 1992 025 031 The Lincoln National Bank and Trust Company Robbery of 1930 Thomas R Buecker Author Nazi Influence at the Fort Robinson NH 73 01 1992 032 041 Prisoner of War Camp During World War II Gail DeBuse Potter Author Evolution of Arbor Lodge, 1855-1904 NH 73 02 1992 054 068 (The) Ruth Y Wetmore Editor Surveying in Western Nebraska: The NH 73 02 1992 069 081 1883 Journal of Harley Nettleton Douglas R Hartman Author Nebraska’s Lost Battalion NH 73 02 1992 082 090

Mark D Budka Author White Lead Industry in Omaha, NH 73 02 1992 091 097 Nebraska (The) James B Potts Author North of “Bleeding Kansas”: The NH 73 03 1992 110 118 1850s Political Crisis in Nebraska Territory Patricia Gaster Author E J Hested and Nebraska’s Home NH 73 03 1992 119 125 Grown Variety Stores Michele L Fagan Author Nebraska Nursing Education During NH 73 03 1992 126 137

42 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page World War II

Andrea I Paul Author Bully Show (The): Theodore NH 73 03 1992 138 143 Roosevelt’s 1900 Campaign Tour Through Nebraska Evelyn Young Editor Seeking a Homestead: Through NH 73 04 1992 150 159 Cunningham Nebraska and Wyoming in 1916 Mary Grimes Author Establishing Nebraska’s Highway NH 73 04 1992 160 172 Cochran System, 1915-1934 Carol Ahlgren Author Lincoln Highway in Nebraska (The): NH 73 04 1992 173 179 David Anthone Author The Pioneer Trail of the Automotive Age Nebraska’s Changing Auto Culture, NH 73 04 1992 180 185 1900-1930 D Layne Ehlers Author Second Floor, Brick Block: NH 72 01 1991 003 020 Nebraska’s Opera Houses Mary Bloodgood Editor Diary of Mary Bonner Lightfoot, NH 72 01 1991 021 032 Great Nemaha Agency, 1869 Thomas Magnuson Author Omaha’s Jewish Physicians: In a period when many university NH 72 01 1991 033 043 Educational and Occupational medical schools used admission Opportunity, 1890-1940 quotas to discourage Jewish applicants and Jewish physicians often had difficulty obtaining hospital affiliations, Omaha provided a better experience for Jewish members of its medical community. Jewish physicians did make up a relatively small percentage of the Omaha medical market, but they encountered little prejudice. James C Creigh Author Constructing the Interstate Highway NH 72 01 1991 044 053 in Nebraska: Route and Funding Controversies Martha H Kennedy Author Nebraska’s Women Photographers NH 72 02 1991 062 077

Monroe Billington Author Nebraska Clergymen, Franklin D NH 72 02 1991 078 088 Cal Clark Author Roosevelt, and the New Deal Steven J Buss Author Public School District Reorganization NH 72 02 1991 089 098 and Consolidation in Adams County, Nebraska, 1949-1989

43 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Garneth O Peterson Author Who’s in charge? A Framework for NH 72 02 1991 099 110 Examining Community Leadership in Omaha Over the Past Century Todd L Petersen Author Kearney, Nebraska, and the Kearney NH 72 03 1991 118 126 Army Air Field in World War II Carol Gendler Author Industrial Removal Office and the The Industrial Removal Office, NH 72 03 1991 127 134 Settlement of Jews in Nebraska, 1901- founded in New York City in 1901, 1917 (The) moved Jewish immigrants from crowded Eastern cities to communities throughout the United States. In Lincoln and Omaha, the IRO program ran on a one-to-one, personalized basis. Where a Jewish community existed, the program was able to function successfully; where there were only one or two individuals to sponsor the re-settlers, it became burdensome for both the sponsor and the immigrant. Clayton D Laurie Author U S Army and the Omaha Race Riot In 1919 Fort Omaha’s commander, NH 72 03 1991 135 143 of 1919 (The) Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Wuest, was unfamiliar with recent policies regarding the use of troops in domestic disorders. He hesitated when he was called upon to help put down the Omaha riot on September 28. The Army did eventually intervene, but only after three deaths and massive property damage that might have been avoided. John E Carter Author Niobrara, Nebraska: The Town Too Niobrara was established in the spring NH 72 03 1991 144 149 Tough to Stay Put! of 1857 along the Missouri River about a mile southeast of its confluence with the Niobrara River. The location was chosen to provide easy access to steamboat traffic. However, its location was moved after the great flood at the end of the winter of 1881. The town was moved a second time in 1971 when ground water rose due to the creation of the 44 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Fort Randall Dam and later the Gavins Point Dam which created the Lewis and Clark Lake. The relocation of Niobrara in 1881-82 cost an estimated $40,000; the 1970s relocation cost an estimated $14.5 million.

Introduction Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 158 161 the War? December 7, 1941 Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 162 167 the War? Joining Up Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 168 174 the War? Home Front (The): Rationing and Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 175 203 Scrap Drives, Civil Defense, War the War? Plants and POW Camps, Relationships and Attitudes Battlefront (The): The Pacific Theater, Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 204 228 The European Theater the War? Two Presidents Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 229 233 the War? Bomb (The) Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 234 236 the War? Victory! Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 237 241 the War? Reflection Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 242 250 the War? Index of Interviewees Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 251 256 the War? World War II Research Collections at Special Issue: What Did You Do in NH 72 04 1991 257 258 the Nebraska State Historical Society the War? Andrea I Paul Author His Own Worst Enemy: The Rise and NH 71 01 1990 003 013 Fall of Grover Cleveland Alexander Thomas R Buecker Editor In the Old Army: Harry K Hollenbach NH 71 01 1990 013 022 at Fort Robinson, 1911-1913 Elizabeth Anderson Author Depression Legacy: Nebraska’s Post NH 71 01 1990 023 033 Office Art Peter Bleed Author Lincoln Pottery Works (The): A NH 71 01 1990 034 044 Christopher Schoen Author Historical Perspective M 45 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page John E Carter Author Photographing Across the Plains: NH 71 02 1990 058 063 Charles R Savage in 1866 Willard B Gatewood Jr Author Perils of Passing (The): The McCarys This article presents various aspects of NH 71 02 1990 064 070 of Omaha light-skinned black people “passing” for whites by examining the 1919 case of Francis Patrick Dwyer’s suit to annul his marriage to Clara McCary Dwyer after becoming suspicious that their new baby boy had Negro blood. While Dwyer was correct, he failed to win his suit, and his wife was able to divorce him and receive child support in 1923. Edith Robbins Author Grand Island’s Weltblatt: An NH 71 02 1990 071 075 Experiment in Low German Lori Cox Author Comedy of ‘Heirs’ (The): The Estate NH 71 02 1990 076 084 of John O’Connor Sherrill F Daniels Editor “So Different from Country Life”: NH 71 02 1990 085 096 The 1888 Omaha Letters of Frisby L Rasp Frederick C Luebke Author Tiemann, Taxes and the Centennial In 1967, under the progressive NH 71 03 1990 107 120 Legislature of 1967: Beginning leadership of Governor Norbert T Nebraska’s Second Century Tiemann, Nebraska’s Unicameral enacted laws that were remarkable in their range and impact. The revenue act included a sales tax and an income tax, replacing the state property tax, two head taxes, a tax on household goods, and a tax on intangible property. David Murphy Author Hastings Victory Building (The): A NH 71 03 1990 121 125 Personal Commemoration Mary Grimes Author From Emergency Relief to Social NH 71 03 1990 126 141 Cochran Security in Nebraska James P Eckman Author Missionaries of Culture: Chautauqua NH 71 03 1990 142 150 in Nebraska’s State Penitentiary, 1889-1894 Tracy Lynn Wit Author Social and Economic Impact of World NH 71 03 1990 151 163 War II Munitions Manufacture on Grand Island, Nebraska (The)

46 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Christer Lindberg Editor Foreigners in Action at Wounded Two foreign participants in the NH 71 04 1990 170 181 Knee massacre at Wounded Knee recorded their experiences, the Swede Ragnar Ling-Vannerus in a journal, the Englishman Walter R Crickett in a letter. This article uses their accounts to create a record of the battle that goes beyond standard depictions of the events. It includes additional comments by Konni Zilliacus, a Finnish journalist and war correspondent who witnessed the action. Andrea I Paul Author Buffalo Bill and Wounded Knee: The William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a NH 71 04 1990 182 190 Movie natural born showman. He was a media star, a cultural icon, and founder of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. When kinetoscope was introduced in the beginning of the twentieth century, he was provided another opportunity to promote his career: a controversial movie, The Indian Wars, which was produced and exhibited—and of which only two minutes has been found. This is the story of the production of that film. The Faraway Artist After the battle at Wounded Knee, NH 71 04 1990 191 193 many came to the reservation for personal gain: relic collection, telegraph operators, fellow newsmen, and photographers. Richard E Jensen Author Big Foot’s Followers at Wounded This article examines primary sources NH 71 04 1990 194 212 Knee in an attempt to determine the number and the identity of the people who were with Big Foot at Wounded Knee Creek during the confrontation between the US Army and Big Foot’s Miniconjou National Register for Nebraska (The) Special Issue: Historic Places: The NH 70 01 1989 008 141 National Register for Nebraska

47 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Glossary Special Issue: Historic Places: The NH 70 01 1989 142 143 National Register for Nebraska Branch Museums and Historical Parks Special Issue: Historic Places: The NH 70 01 1989 144 144 National Register for Nebraska R Eli Paul Editor Galvanized Yankee Along the NH 70 02 1989 146 157 Niobrara River (A) Anne P Diffendal Editor Fred “Bright Star” Murree: Pawnee Fred Murree began as a speed roller NH 70 02 1989 158 163 Roller Skater skater in the 1870s and continued as a trick skater until 1943. The article includes his reminiscences and those of Marjorie McLauchlen, who witnessed some of his performances in a Detroit skating rink owned by her father. Dennis D Madden Author Hord Family (The): Merrick County NH 70 02 1989 164 171 Entrepreneurs William C Pratt Author Omaha Business Men’s Association Socially prominent local businessmen NH 70 02 1989 172 183 and the Open Shop, 1903-1909 (The) led the anti-union movement in Omaha in the early twentieth century. Many unions survived, but the open shop principle promoted by the Omaha Business Men’s Association met with early success, was widely accepted and persisted for many years. John Anderson Author Lincoln, Nebraska, and Prohibition: NH 70 02 1989 184 200 The Election of May 4, 1909 Thomas D Thiessen Author Fighting First Nebraska (The): Special Issue: The Nebraskans who NH 70 03 1989 210 267 Nebraska's Imperial Adventure in the fought in the Philippines 1898-99, Philippines, 1898-1899 belonged to the First Nebraska Introduction; Nebraska Responds; Infantry, United States Volunteers, a Camp Alvin Saunders; En Route to regiment that achieved an enviable San Francisco; Camp Merritt; The combat record during its sixteen- Voyage to Manila; The Battle for month existence and suffered a higher Manila; The Occupation; Another casualty rate than any other American War Erupts; Guarding the regiment of its time. For its service in Waterworks; The Drive on Malolos; the Philippines, the regiment earned The Battle of Quingua; To San the appellation of "The Fighting First Fernando … and Recall; The of Nebraska." Philippine “Question”; Epilogue Miller J Stewart Author Fort Robinson, Nebraska, Army NH 70 04 1989 274 282 Remount Depot, 1919-1945 48 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Mary Lyons-Barrett Author Omaha Visiting Nurses Association NH 70 04 1989 283 296 during the 1920s and 1930s (The) Richard Lowitt Author George W Norris: A Reflective View NH 70 04 1989 297 302

Dennis N Mihelich Author Lincoln Urban League (The): The The Lincoln Urban League performed NH 70 04 1989 303 316 Travail of Depression and War two valuable missions during the Depression and World War II: “group work” which dispensed social services directly to the people, and “community work” which promoted equal opportunity to the entire community. Inez Whitehead Author Fort Omaha Balloon School: Its Role NH 69 01 1988 002 010 in World War I James E Potter Author Barkley Vs Pool: Woman Suffrage After anti-suffrage forces gathered NH 69 01 1988 011 018 and the Nebraska Referendum Law signatures to suspend a limited woman suffrage act signed in 1917, the Nebraska suffrage battle was waged in the courtroom. The Nebraska Supreme Court eventually upheld a lower court ruling that the referendum petition drive had failed because illegal procedures had been used to gather signatures. This decision led to major reform of the initiative and referendum process. James P Eckman Author Respectable Leisure: The Crete NH 69 01 1988 019 029 Chautauqua, 1882-1897 Richard L Gruenther Editor Eisenhower Campaign of 1952 (The): NH 69 01 1988 030 039 Robert H Ferrell Editor The Letters of Homer Gruenther R Eli Paul Author Faces of the First Nebraskans The 1987 Nebraska State Historical NH 69 02 1988 050 059 Society exhibit, “The First Nebraskans,” traced Nebraska’s Indian past from its beginnings 12,000 years ago to the twentieth century. Illustrations suggest the diversity of the artifacts included in the exhibit. Donald Schneider Author Controversy Over Sunday (The): NH 69 02 1988 060 072 Movies in Hastings, 1913-1929 James B Potts Author Nebraska Statehood and The Nebraska statehood struggle NH 69 02 1988 073 083 Reconstruction revealed both the character and 49 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page significance of national Reconstruction policy on the level of local frontier politics. Nebraska’s admission marked the first time that Congress imposed a “condition” upon a new state that impinged upon its acknowledged power to set suffrage qualifications. C Barron McIntosh Author Route of a Sand Hills Bone Hunt NH 69 02 1988 084 094 (The): The Yale College Expedition of 1870 James A Hanson Author USS Nebraska (The) On March 3, 1899, Congress NH 69 03 1988 106 114 authorized construction of several new battleships and battle cruisers, which after the Civil War were to bear the names of states. One of the newly authorized ships was designated the USS Nebraska. This is her story. Gail De Buse Potter Author Silver Service for the USS for the This article presents the history of the NH 69 03 1988 115 119 USS Nebraska creation of the silver service presented to the USS Nebraska by the State of Nebraska in 1905, its design, its eventual return to the state in 1922. [The battleship USS Nebraska was launched in 1904 and deactivated in 1920.] Mary Grimes Author Governor and the Guard in the Omaha At the height of violence in the NH 69 03 1988 120 130 Cochran Tram Strike of 1935 (The) Omaha streetcar strike of 1935, Nebraska's new governor, Robert Leroy "Roy" Cochran, called out the National Guard and declared martial law to force the street car company to arbitrate. Nancy Handy Moran Author Tragedy at Peru State College: The At Peru State College, on Tuesday NH 69 03 1988 131 141 Murders of William Nicholas and morning, April 25, 1950, Professor Paul Maxwell Barney K Baker shot to death the college president, Dr William L Nicholas, and the head of the education division, Dr Paul Ammon Maxwell. He then went home and killed himself. The tragedy followed 50 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Dr Baker's being notified of his future dismissal from the college. This article investigates the circumstances surrounding his dismissal. Frederick C Luebke Author Time, Place, and Culture in Nebraska This article is a summary of the NH 69 04 1988 150 168 History history of Nebraska and how and why that history might vary from its neighboring states. Richard E Jensen Editor Agent to the Oto: The Recollections This article reproduces for the first NH 69 04 1988 169 181 of Albert Lamborn Green time a section of Albert Lamborn Green’s illustrated 1939 reminiscence, the major pictorial record of Oto and Missouria life in Nebraska. Green served as a government agent on their Gage County reservation for four years. He took special pride in having successfully negotiated on behalf of the Indians when they sold their land to the government. Patricia Gaster Author Nebraska Newspaperman Will M Will M Maupin (1863-1948) was one NH 69 04 1988 182 192 Maupin of the most remarkable Nebraska newspapermen, spending over 60 years on at least twenty different newspapers around the state. He was known for his untiring Nebraska boosterism; for his role in forming the Nebraska Federation of Labor in 1909; and for his association with William Jennings Bryan on The Commoner from 1901 until 1913. John Hall Editor Philippine War (The): The Diary of NH 69 04 1988 193 198 Robert Bruce Payne, 1899 Douglas R Hartman Author Butler B Miltonberger Collection NH 69 04 1988 199 203 Andrea I Paul Author (The) James A Hanson Author Forgotten Fur Trade Trail (A) During its fur trade heyday, the Fort NH 68 01 1987 002 009 Pierre-Fort Laramie Trail probably carried at least 125 tons of trade goods to the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Crow traders. The trail began and ended in isolation but was an integral 51 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page part of the commercial history of the American fur trade and played a key role in supplying what was probably the nation's most famous fur trading post. Andrea I Paul Author Wahoo in World War I: The This article presents the photographs NH 68 01 1987 010 019 R Eli Paul Author Photographs of Arthur L Anderson of a Saunders County, Nebraska, photographer Arthur Leonard Anderson of Wahoo. N J Anderson and Son specialized in both studio and Fexterior action photography. The article contains a portion of the over 250 photographs taken in Wahoo during World War I. Stepanka Andrews- Author Dr Olga Stastny, Her Service to Dr. Olga Stastny, who was graduated NH 68 01 1987 020 027 Koryta Nebraska and the World from the University of Nebraska Medical School in 1913, struggled against great odds to secure professional training and to practice her skills. Despite her Czech immigrant background and the few women doctors of the time, she made great strides both in the United States and abroad as a Fphysician and was a significant force in eliminating discrimination against female physicians. Richard E Jensen Author Nebraska’s World War I Potash In Nebraska there have been a few NH 68 01 1987 028 042 Industry periods of wildcat growth in a particular industry, but perhaps none was as intensive as the potash boom during and after World War I. At least five million dollars were invested in the construction of ten huge plants, each with the capacity to produce 100 tons of potash per day. This article presents the misconceptions and truths about this Nebraska boom. Edward L Schapsmeier Author President Gerald R Ford’s Roots in NH 68 02 1987 056 062 Frederick H Schapsmeier Author Omaha 52 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Dennis N Mihelich Author Formation of the Lincoln Urban The Great Migration brought NH 68 02 1987 063 073 League (The) increased numbers of black residents to Lincoln, where a small group of blacks had already established themselves. To deal with post World War I discrimination, local black leaders in 1933 created the Lincoln Urban League, affiliated with the National Urban League until 1954. Like the national group, the Lincoln Urban League advocated for equality and integration. In addition it provided essential social services in what came to be called the Malone Community Center. Marilyn Arnold Author Other Side of Willa Cather (The) NH 68 02 1987 074 082

Thomas R Buecker Author 1887 Expansion of Fort Robinson NH 68 02 1987 083 093 (The) Andrea I Paul Author Sheldon Manufacturing Company of The Sheldon Manufacturing Company NH 68 03 1987 104 111 Nehawka (The) of Nehawka, Nebraska, was an example of a small Nebraska business that sought to capitalize on the demand for a modestly priced and innovative product (a concrete mixer) that offered considerable labor savings to farmers and small contractors. Peter Bleed Author Indians and Japanese Swords on the Two photographs provide evidence NH 68 03 1987 112 115 North Plains Frontier that North Plains Indians procured Japanese swords at a time when such swords were very rare outside Japan. The author suggests that world travelers who had visited both Japan and the North Plains may have presented the swords as gifts to important Indian leaders. Robert H Keller Jr Author Episcopal Reformers and Affairs At When President Ulysses S Grant put NH 68 03 1987 116 126 Red Cloud Agency, 1870-1876 the Protestant Episcopal church in charge of Nebraska and Dakota Territory Indian agencies, he charged its agents with reforming the Bureau 53 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page of Indian Affairs, educating Indian tribes and halting bloodshed on the western frontier. Despite some improvements at the agencies, Indians and others continually criticized the churchmen who attempted to carry out Grant’s peace policy. Tommy R Thompson Author Sales, Santa, and Good Fellows: NH 68 03 1987 127 141 Celebrating Christmas in Omaha Orville D Menard Author Tom Dennison, The Omaha Bee, and The role of Dennison and his men in NH 68 04 1987 152 165 the 1919 Omaha Race Riot the riot of September 26, 1919, remains equivocal so far as Will Brown’s arrest and murder. However, Dennison and the Bee helped create conditions ripe for the outbreak of racial violence. Hattie Plum Williams Author Road to Citizenship (The): A Study of Lancaster County NH 68 04 1987 166 182 Anne Polk Diffendal Editor Naturalization in a Nebraska County Margaret Reilly Author Andrew Wadsworth, A Nebraska Andrew S Wadsworth was 28 years NH 68 04 1987 183 199 Inglehart Soldier in the Philippines, 1898-1899 old, living in Beatrice, Nebraska and working in his uncle's jewelry shop, a member of the Nebraska National Guard. He was one of several thousand young men who served in the Philippines when Spain declared war on the United States. Through a series of letters written home, the article illustrates what the war was like for the normal soldier. Gail De Buse Potter Author Note on the Samuel Allis Family (A): Presbyterian missionary Samuel Allis, NH 67 01 1986 001 007 Missionaries to the Pawnee, 1834-46 Jr., also served as a teacher to the Pawnee. Sioux attacks caused his mission to be abandoned in 1946. In 1861 Allis’s daughter, Martha Hollins, created the earliest quilt known to have been made by a Nebraskan. Gregory J Johnson Author “To Make Some Provision For Their The Treaty of Prairie du Chien set NH 67 01 1986 008 029 Half-Breeds,” The Nemaha Half- aside the Half-Breed Tract in Breed Reserve, 1830-66 southeastern Nebraska for mixed bloods so they could assimilate into white society. The mixed bloods who 54 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page received property after years of disputes over tract boundaries and qualifications of recipients quickly sold their land to whites. T D Nostwich Editor Nellie Bly’s Account of Her 1895 NH 67 01 1986 030 068 Visit To Drouth-Stricken Nebraska and South Dakota Richard Bennett Author Cousin Laman in the Wilderness: The Patience and restraint generally NH 67 01 1986 069 082 Edmond Beginnings of Brigham Young’s characterized Brigham Young’s Indian Policy dealings with the Plains Indians and later with the Great Basin Indians. Both in Nebraska and in Utah other Mormons were more confrontational than their leader. John P Falter Tribute NH 67 02 1986 100 101

Joni Gilkerson Author Charles Hansen and James Willer: NH 67 02 1986 103 114 Danish Interior Decorators in Diller, Nebraska, 1909-1915 Larry A McFarlane Author Opposition to British Agricultural NH 67 02 1986 115 133 Investment in the Northern Plains States, 1884-1900 Donald L Stevens Jr Author Government, Interest Groups and the Other cities took advantage of federal NH 67 02 1986 134 158 People: Urban Renewal in Omaha, redevelopment funds in the 1950s and 1954-1970 1960s, but Omaha did not have the necessary public support for redevelopment. Business leaders who wanted to maintain private control over the planning process battled civic leaders who underestimated the negative public attitude toward urban renewal. Three times the people voted against the establishment of an independent redevelopment authority with the power to expropriate private property. Subsequent attempts to bypass the electorate further alienated residents. Poor housing and declining neighborhoods in North Omaha and South Omaha remained unimproved after years of conflict. 55 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page John B Davis Editor McCook, Nebraska, Letters of Dr NH 67 02 1986 159 205 Byron B Davis (The), 1885-1887 Leonard Schlup Author In the Shadow of Bryan: Adlai E NH 67 03 1986 223 238 Stevenson and the Resurgence of Conservatism at the 1900 Convention Lawrence H Larsen Author Alliance Army Air Base Case (The) NH 67 03 1986 239 255

Sara A Brown Author Children in the Sugar Beet Fields of In the 1920s a congressional NH 67 03 1986 256 303 Robie O Sargent Author the North Platte Valley of Nebraska, committee investigated the use of 1923 child labor in the Nebraska beet fields. This article reproduces the committee’s 1923 “Family Study,” which found that more than half of all contract beet laborers were under sixteen years of age. Ann L Ilhite Author Cities and Colleges in the Promised Nebraska’s first frontier was both NH 67 04 1986 327 371 Land: Territorial Nebraska, 1854- urban and rural. Its cities were shaped 1867 by national concerns—the Pacific Railroad, the Panic of 1857, the Pike’s Peak gold rush, and the Civil War. That so many of these embryo cities wanted their own colleges was the result of local boosterism as well as national trends that coalesced in the mid-1850s. Stephen D Bodayla Author “Can An Indian Vote?” Elk v Wilkins, From the early 1800s the federal NH 67 04 1986 372 380 A Setback for Indian Citizenship government granted citizenship to individual Indians and to some tribes, but their citizenship did not necessarily include the right to vote. In 1880 John Elk, a Winnebago Indian who lived in Omaha, Nebraska, unsuccessfully attempted to register to vote. The case brought on his behalf eventually went all the way to the Supreme Court, which decided against Elk. Not until 1924 were all American Indians granted federal citizenship and even after that a few states refused until the middle of the twentieth century to allow Indians to 56 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page vote.

R Eli Paul Editor Lester Beach Platt’s Account of the NH 67 04 1986 381 407 Battle of Massacre Canyon Robert B Crosby Author Dedication of the George W Norris NH 66 01 1985 001 006 West Legislative Chamber Les Valentine Author First All Nebraska Air Tour, 1929 NH 66 01 1985 007 027 (The): “One Big Family in the Air or on the Ground” Kingsley M Bray Author Lone Horn’s Peace: A New View of The signing of the Treaty of 1851 was NH 66 01 1985 028 047 Sioux-Crow Relations, 1851-1858 heralded as the dawn of a new era of peace between the United States and the Indian tribes of the Northern Plains. In the period 1851-1857, the long war between the southern divisions of the Teton Sioux and their old enemies the Crow was interrupted by six years of peace. Janet R Daly Author Early City Planning Efforts in Omaha, NH 66 01 1985 048 073 1914-1920 Robert D Clark Author Settlement of Blackwood Township, NH 66 01 1985 074 110 Hayes County, Nebraska, 1878-1907 (The) Donald F Danker Author Big Bat Pourier’s Version of the NH 66 02 1985 129 144 Sibley Scout Thomas R Buecker Author Nebraska Flour Mill Buildings, NH 66 02 1985 145 163 Structure and Style, 1854-1936 Ruth Van Ackeren Editor Adabelle Cherry Marshall on the NH 66 02 1985 164 184 Ellison-White Chautauqua Circuit Mary Mark Orr S C L Author Guittard Station on the St Joe Road NH 66 02 1985 185 191

David G Wagaman Author Note on Nebraska and Labor Unions Historically a smaller percentage of NH 66 02 1985 192 196 (A) non-agricultural laborers have opted for union membership in Nebraska than in many other states. Factors that have made Nebraska less receptive to the labor union movement include recent settlement, the availability of free or cheap land, the dominance of agriculture, the rural character of the state, and the industrial mix of its 57 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page economy.

Florence Burden Author New Deal Artist Ernest E Stevens NH 66 03 1985 225 233 Canfield Michael W Schuyler Author Ku Klux Klan in Nebraska, 1920- Beginning in 1921 the Ku Klux Klan NH 66 03 1985 234 256 1930 (The) made a major effort to recruit members in Nebraska. At its height the Klan claimed 45,000 members in the state. By the end of the 1920s the group had become known for racism and bigotry, and from then on its influence faded rapidly. Robert W Cherny Editor Dan Bride’s Memoirs of William NH 66 03 1985 257 271 Jennings Bryan William Seralle Author Theophilus G Steward, Intellectual Theophilus Gould Steward was an NH 66 03 1985 272 293 Chaplain, 25th US Colored Infantry industrious, learned black man who served 50 years as a transforming and uplifting member of the clergy. Sixteen of those years were in the 25th United States Colored Infantry. As an author of eight books and activist in promoting education among the military and while stationed in the Philippines, he mastered four languages and became an accomplished orator as well. He represented the best of the African- American elite of his time. William C Pratt Author Workers, Bosses, and Public Officials: The largest unions and the major meat NH 66 03 1985 294 313 Omaha’s 1948 Packinghouse Strike packers were involved in a national strike marked by violence in several cities in 1948. In Omaha packinghouse workers did not win concessions from the packers, but they benefitted from community support during the strike. Marvin F Kivett Author Leigh DeLay (1915-1985) NH 66 03 1985 314 317 Clarke Davis Author Richard L Jensen Translator By Handcart to Utah: The Account of NH 66 04 1985 333 348 C C A Christensen

58 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Lawrence Allin Author “A Thousand and One Little Delays”: NH 66 04 1985 349 371 Carroll Training the Missouri River at Omaha, 1877-1883 Richard K Sutton Author Ernest H Herminghaus, Landscape NH 66 04 1985 372 391 Architect LaVon Mary Gappa Author Chancellor James Hulme Canfield: NH 66 04 1985 392 410 His Impact on the University of Nebraska, 1891-1895 James A Hanson Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 66 04 1985 411 449 1985 (The) Bethene Larson Author Franklin D Roosevelt’s Visit to NH 65 01 1984 001 014 Wookey Sidney During the Drouth of 1936 Paolo E Coletta Author Will the Real Progressive Stand Up? NH 65 01 1984 015 057 William Jennings Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt to 1909 Lawrence C Allin Author Four Engineers on the Missouri: NH 65 01 1984 058 083 Long, Fremont, Humphreys, and Warren Paul Schach Author German-Language Newspapers in This article traces the development of NH 65 01 1984 084 107 Nebraska, 1860-1890 the German-language press in Nebraska from its inception in 1860 to shortly after 1890. Edward A Goedeken Author Dawes-Pershing Relationship During The personal relationship between NH 65 01 1984 108 129 World War I (The) Charles Gates Dawes and John J Pershing during World War I in France greatly influenced America’s French effort. Both men played important parts in the war. Timothy J Garvey Author Strength and Stability on the Middle NH 65 02 1984 157 178 Border: Lee Lawrie’s Sculpture for the Nebraska State Capitol Merrill J Mattes Author Council Bluffs Road (The): A New NH 65 02 1984 179 194 Perspective on the Northern Branch of the Great Platte River Road John V Van Cleve Author Nebraska’s Oral Law of 1911 and the NH 65 02 1984 195 220 Deaf Community Ruth Wortman Editor Burlington Railroad Telegrapher (A), NH 65 02 1984 221 244 Ballengee Joseph Harmon Ballengee James E Potter Author Congressional Medal of Honor for a NH 65 02 1984 245 256 Nebraska Soldier (A): The Case of 59 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Private Francis W Lohnes

Miller J Stewart Author Touch of Civilization (A): Culture and NH 65 02 1984 257 282 Education in the Frontier Army Thomas R Buecker Author Fort Niobrara, 1880-1906: Guardian Fort Niobrara was one of the largest NH 65 03 1984 301 326 of the Rosebud Sioux and best-planned military posts built on the northern plains during the Indian Wars. It helped to enforce the confinement of the Sioux on reservations even though its soldiers did not participate in pitched battles. Robert Van Pelt Author Stockville, Nebraska: An Inland NH 65 03 1984 327 343 County Seat Town, About 1900 Anna Gillespie Author Coxville, Nebraska, to Fay, Oklahoma The Josiah B Gillespie family of six NH 65 03 1984 344 365 by Wagon (1899): The Journal of moved by wagon train and horseback Anna Gillespie from their home at Coxville, near Chadron, Nebraska, to west-central Oklahoma in 1899. Gillespie, 49, a horse fancier and celebrity of sorts as winner of the Chadron-Chicago horse race of 1893, also drove a herd of over 50 horses to Oklahoma. Anna Eliza Cook Gillespie, the 48-year old wife of Josiah, cared for the domestic family needs while on the road, shared deriving duties, and kept a journal during the 50-day, 700-mile overland trip across three states. This is her journal. E Kay Dalstrom Author From the Skylon Ballroom to Oscar’s NH 65 03 1984 366 386 Harl A Dalstrom Author Palladium: Dancing in Nebraska, 1948-1957 Janet Jeffries Spencer Author “To Make a Good Product Better”: The Fairmont Creamery Company, NH 65 03 1984 387 394 The Fairmont Creamery Company, incorporated on March 29, 1884, in 1884-1984 Fairmont was founded for the production and sale of butter, eggs, and poultry, by Wallace Wheeler and Joseph H Rushton. The company underwent many changes during its history and developed true innovations during its almost 100-year 60 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page history. Its building at Fairmont was entered in the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 1983. Tescia Ann Yonkers Author Sculptor Rudolph Evans: His Works NH 65 03 1984 395 410 on Williams Jennings Bryan and J Sterling Morton Frederic Trautmann Translator Across Nebraska by Train in 1877: NH 65 03 1984 411 422 Frederic Trautmann Editor The Travels of Ernst von Hesse- Wartegg Paul L Hedren Editor Campaigning with the 5th Cavalry: James Frew lied about his age in order NH 65 04 1984 443 466 Private James B Frew’s Diary and to enlist in the Army in 1876. He Letters from the Great Sioux War of participated in the Starvation March in 1876 the Black Hills, writing an account of that harsh campaign as seen from the ranks. Michael W Homer Author After Winter Quarters and Council NH 65 04 1984 467 483 Bluffs: The Mormons in Nebraska Territory, 1854-1867 Jerold Simmons Author Public Leadership in a World War II NH 65 04 1984 484 499 Boom Town: Bellevue, Nebraska Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 65 04 1984 500 544 1984 (The) Charles W Martin Author John Ahmanson vs Brigham Young: NH 64 01 1983 001 020 A Nebraska Legal Controversy, 1859- 1861 Jacqueline McGlade Author Zoning of Fort Crook (The): Urban NH 64 01 1983 021 034 Expansionism vs County Home Rule R Eli Paul Editor George Wilkins Kendall, Newsman, NH 64 01 1983 035 080 and a Party of Pleasure Seekers on the Prairie, 1851 J Kenneth Davies Author Thomas Rhoads, Forgotten Mormon NH 64 01 1983 081 095 Pioneer of 1846 William J Orr Translator Danish Pioneers on the Nebraska NH 64 01 1983 096 127 William J Orr Editor Prairie: Recollections of Peter Ebbesen Darold D Wax Author Robert Ball Anderson, Ex-Slave, a Robert Ball Anderson was the largest NH 64 02 1983 163 192 Pioneer in Western Nebraska, 1884- black landowner in Nebraska in 1910. 1930 He began as a slave in Kentucky, served in the 125th Colored Infantry 61 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page during the Civil War, homesteaded in Nebraska and was able to build a life as a prosperous, well-respected land owner in Nebraska. Reynold M Wik Author Nebraska Tractor Shows, 1913-1919, A series of tractor shows staged in the NH 64 02 1983 193 208 and the Beginning of Power Farming Midwest from 1913 to 1919 encouraged the growth of power farming in the United States. These public demonstrations tended to prove that tractors rather than horses and mules would be the wave of the future in American agriculture. Leslie R Valentine Author Evangelist Billy Sunday’s Clean-up NH 64 02 1983 209 227 Campaign in Omaha: Local Reaction to His 50-Day Revival, 1915 Ceres Henkel Author Stone Baptist Church of Steele City, NH 64 02 1983 228 237 Nebraska (The) Janet Stoeger Wilke Author Jenner’s Park, Loup City, Nebraska, NH 64 02 1983 238 255 1900-1942 Emmett C Hoctor Author Tom Hoctor and the Magic City: The NH 64 02 1983 256 292 South Omaha Annexation Fight, 1890-1915 William J Orr Translator Journey Through the Nebraska Region NH 64 03 1983 325 453 William J Orr Editor in 1833 and 1834 (A): From the Joseph C Porter Editor Diaries of Prince Maximilian of Wied Nellie Snyder Yost Author Nebraska’s Scholarly Athlete: Louise NH 64 04 1983 477 490 Pound, 1872-1958 L Brent Bohlke Author Grace Church, Red Cloud – A “True NH 64 04 1983 491 511 Story” of the Midwest Harmon Mothershead Author Stockyards (The),a Hotel for Stock or NH 64 04 1983 512 520 a Holding Company Paul M Putz Author Missouri Riverboat Wreckage NH 64 04 1983 521 541 Downstream from Yankton, South Dakota Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 64 04 1983 542 586 1983 (The) Lawrence C Allin Author “Mile Wide and an Inch Deep (A)”: NH 63 01 1982 001 015 Attempts to Navigate the Platte River Thomas A Kuhlman Author Captain Cornelius O’Connor House in NH 63 01 1982 016 032 Homer (The): A Symbol for the 62 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Dakota County Irish

Paolo E Coletta Author Question of Alternatives (A): Wilson, NH 63 01 1982 033 057 Bryan, Lansing, and America’s Intervention in World War I R McLaran Sawyer Author Nebraska Schoolmasters Club (The), NH 63 01 1982 058 070 The First Quarter Century Robert H Keller Jr Editor 1864 Overland Trail (The): Five NH 63 01 1982 071 086 Letters from Jonathan Blanchard D C Paz Author “For Zion’s Sake, Will I Not Hold My NH 63 01 1982 087 107 Peace”: John Williams, Radical Omaha Priest, 1877-1914 Edward C Cass Author Flood Control and the Corps of NH 63 01 1982 108 122 Engineers in the Missouri Valley, 1902-1973 Donald F Danker Author Violent Deaths of Yellow Bear and In 1907 William Garnett described for NH 63 02 1982 137 151 John Richard Jr (The) Eli Ricker a scene of death and retribution that he had witnessed thirty-five years earlier. On that occasion John Richard Jr., who had been drinking, shot his father-inlaw Yellow Bear without provocation. Other Oglala Sioux then immediately attacked and killed Richard. Darlene Ritter Author Nebraska’s First Aviatrix: Ethel Ives NH 63 02 1982 152 163 Tillotson, 1894-1928 Klaus Hartmann Author Nebraska Asylum for the Insane NH 63 02 1982 164 183 Les Margolin Author (The), 1870-1886 Penelope Chatfield Author Wyuka: A “Rural” Cemetery in NH 63 02 1982 184 193 Lincoln, Nebraska Miller J Stewart Author To Plow, To Sow, To Reap, to Mow: NH 63 02 1982 194 215 The US Army Agriculture Program Tommy R Thompson Author Great Omaha Train Robbery (The) The robbery of the Union Pacific NH 63 02 1982 216 231 Overland Limited in Omaha on the night of May 22, 1909, by the “James Boys of Spokane,” the investigation and trial, and the dispute regarding the disbursement of over $200,000 in reward monies deserves a place in the chronicles of the Old West.

63 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Richard Coyer Author “This Wild Region of the Far West”: Sweeny‟s letters to his wife report NH 63 02 1982 232 254 Joseph Lieutenant Sweeny’s Letters From “Indian news” and describe weather Fort Pierre, 1855-1856 conditions, outbreaks of illness, and relationships among the officers at the post. He frequently mentions his requests for transfers that would have permitted him to live nearer his family. John C Schneider Author Omaha Vagrants and the Character of NH 63 02 1982 255 272 Western Hobo Labor, 1887-1913 Leslie Hewes Author Early Fencing on the Western Margin NH 63 03 1982 301 348 of the Prairie Michael W Homer Author Territorial Judiciary (The): An NH 63 03 1982 349 380 Overview of the Nebraska Experience, 1854-1867 Thomas R Buecker Author Post of North Platte Station (The) NH 63 03 1982 381 398 1867-1878 Janet A McDonnell Author Land Policy on the Omaha In the early twentieth century NH 63 03 1982 399 411 Reservation: Competency progressive attempts to make the Commissions and Forced Fee Patents Indians independent failed. When the government forced land ownership on Omaha Indians who still needed protection and support, land speculators rushed to take advantage of the situation. E S Sutton Author Trial and Death of William H (Hank) NH 63 03 1982 412 437 Dodge (The), 1875-1876 Ralph Spencer Author Prisoners of War in Cheyenne County, NH 63 03 1982 438 449 1943-1946 Oliver B Pollack Author Jewish Peddlers of Omaha (The) In the mid-nineteenth century many NH 63 04 1982 474 501 Jewish immigrants throughout the US made a living as peddlers and then became more prosperous storekeepers. By the 1920s most of the Jewish peddlers once numerous in Omaha had disappeared as a result of municipal restrictions, changing consumer habits, and the availability of other jobs considered more desirable.

64 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Valerie Mathes Author Susan LaFlesche Picotte: Nebraska’s Susan La Flesche Picotte graduated NH 63 04 1982 502 530 Sherer Indian Physician from medical school at a time when very few women did so. As the only doctor serving her Omaha tribe, she traveled long distances to visit patients in their homes in all kinds of weather. In later years she also became politically active on behalf of the Omaha. Philip A Grant Jr Author William Jennings Bryan and the NH 63 04 1982 531 542 Presidential Election of 1916 Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 63 04 1982 543 579 1982 (The) Thomas R Buecker Editor Letters of Caroline Frey Winnie from NH 62 01 1981 001 046 Sidney Barracks and Fort McPherson, Nebraska, 1874-1878 Jerold Simmons Author Dawson County Responds to the New NH 62 01 1981 047 072 Deal, 1933-1940 Timothy L Moll Author Deshler Broom Factory (The) NH 62 01 1981 073 079

Patricia Gaster Author Lewis-Syford House of Lincoln (The) NH 62 01 1981 080 084

Richard E Jensen Editor Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt visited reservations in NH 62 01 1981 085 106 Visits Indian Reservations, 1892 Nebraska and South Dakota in 1892 to observe conditions there and to ascertain the degree to which Indians were being assimilated into white society. This article reproduces the Roosevelt Report published in the Indian Rights Association’s periodical in 1893. D G Paz Author Study in Adaptability (A): The NH 62 01 1981 107 130 Episcopal Church in Omaha, 1856- 1919 Donald F Danker Editor Wounded Knee Interviews of Eli S NH 62 02 1981 151 243 Ricker (The) John G Neihardt: Anniversary NH 62 02 1981 244 256 Tributes to Nebraska’s Poet Laureate Orville H Zabel Author History in Stone: The Story in This article explains the monumental, NH 62 03 1981 285 372 Sculpture on the Exterior of the historical and architectural settings for Nebraska Capitol the building. It is a thorough and 65 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page complete tour of the exterior of the building. R Eli Paul Author Battle of Ash Hollow: The 1909-1910 NH 62 03 1981 373 399 Recollections of General N A M Dudley Dwayne Bolling Editor Gold Rush Journey: A Letter by NH 62 03 1981 400 410 William C Foster, 1850 Denver D Gray Author I Remember Pearl Harbor: A NH 62 04 1981 437 480 Nebraska Army Air Force Officer in the Pacific Theatre During World War II Robert E Carlson Author Professor Fred Fling: His Career and NH 62 04 1981 481 496 Conflicts at Nebraska University Patricia Gaster Author Eye on the Midwest: The 40-Year NH 62 04 1981 497 514 Career of Cartoonist Guy R Spencer Douglas Street Author La Flesche Sisters Write to St NH 62 04 1981 515 523 Nicholas Magazine Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 62 04 1981 524 564 1981 Charles W Martin Editor Diary of William H Woodhams (The), NH 61 01 1980 001 101 1852-1854: The Great Deserts or Around and Across Richmond L Clow Author Mad Bear: William S Harney and the In 1855 Colonel William S Harney, a NH 61 02 1980 133 152 Sioux Expedition of 1855-1856 veteran of Indian campaigns, was given the rank of brevet brigadier general and ordered to conduct a campaign against hostile Sioux. Harney was determined to complete his orders to punish the hostile western Sioux and protect the overland trail. On September 3, 1855, Harney’s 600-man command attacked and destroyed a Lakota village located three miles north on Blue Creek, near present-day Lewellen, Nebraska. The fight became known as the Battle of Blue Water, sometimes the Battle of Ash Hollow after the nearby landmark, or the Harney Massacre.

66 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Arthur Bud Ogle Author Above the World: William Jennings One of the major elements in Bryan’s NH 61 02 1980 153 171 Bryan’s View of the American Nation intellectual and political life has been in International Affairs largely ignored by both critics and admirers of William Jennings Bryan: his vital patriotism and nationalism. The author illuminates an essential element in his political philosophy and the consistent reason behind his foreign policy. Tommy R Thompson Author Devil Wagon Comes to Omaha (The): In 1902 there were only a few NH 61 02 1980 172 191 The First Decade of the Automobile, automobiles, toys for the affluent. The 1900-1910 number of machines increased dramatically from year to year and included delivery trucks, moving vans, and taxicabs. This article presents accidents and regulations of this decade. Omaha society had accepted the automobile in all its forms, but Omahans also expected drivers to use their machines in a safe and responsible manner, not as “devil wagons.” James A Wier Author 19th Century Doctors on the Frontier The US Army brought medicine to the NH 61 02 1980 192 214 and in Nebraska frontier, accompanying the troops wherever they went. They shared the dangers, hardships, and boredom of the soldiers and their families. Most practiced their profession well, and contract physicians carried a great deal of the work load than the regular officers. The doctors’ families often accompanied them to the frontier, establishing homes and rearing and educating their children. Gordon M Riedesel Author Geography of Saunders County Rural Saunders County has 43 rural NH 61 02 1980 215 228 Cemeteries from 1859 (The) cemeteries and 19 population center cemeteries. This is a study of how these cemeteries fit into what is called the “cultural landscape.” The relationship between population increases, transportation, vegetation, 67 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page and economic and social activities of surrounding areas are addressed. The study uses a classification system: undifferentiated, small family-plots, small rural-activity, and large rural- activity categories and divides the study into time periods. A listing of the 62 studied cemeteries with the date of their founding is included. Peg Poeschl Author Housing Nebraska’s Governors, 1854- NH 61 03 1980 259 279 1980 Mary Grimes Author Chief Justice Daniel Gantt of the This is the story of Daniel Gantt, who NH 61 03 1980 280 309 Cochran Nebraska Supreme Court, Letters and served as chief Justice of the Nebraska Excerpts from his Journal, 1835-1878 Supreme Court in 1878, as told through letters and excerpts from his journal. Personal family history and personal viewpoints are included in this insight into one of the founders of Nebraska jurisprudence. Roger L Welsch Author Nebraska Log Construction: Examples of log construction in NH 61 03 1980 310 335 Momentum in Tradition Nebraska are not common, but neither are they rare. This is a study based on a limited investigation of extant log construction and a more extensive examination of photographic documents from the files of the Nebraska State Historical Society. Horace C Crandall Author Establishment of the Nebraska School The Nebraska School of Agriculture at NH 61 03 1980 336 354 Donald E Ringstmeyer Author of Agriculture at Curtis, 1911-1913 Curtis graduated over 3,000 young men and women during its 55 year existence. Its purpose was to perform essentially the same function as the school in Lincoln for the southwest quadrant of the state. This is the story of the politics, the competition for its location, the bidding process, and its building and opening celebration. Donald Chaput Author Private William W Grayson’s War in This article presents the story of NH 61 03 1980 355 366 the Philippines, 1899 William W Grayson, who fired the first shot in the Philippine-American War, as part of Company D, Nebraska 68 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Regiment, east of Manila, on February 4, 1899. Leslie R Valentine Author Development of the Omaha Municipal NH 61 04 1980 401 420 Airfield (The), 1924-1930 Miller J Stewart Author Army Laundresses: Ladies of the NH 61 04 1980 421 436 “Soap Suds Row” Steven C Schulte Author American Indian Historiography and Schulte provides brief analyses of a NH 61 04 1980 437 446 the Myth of the Origins of the Plains number of histories of United States Wars Indian policy on the Great Plains before the Civil War. He describes the existing scholarship as white- centered and encourages historians of the period to focus on the Indians and their tribal relationships. James C Ransom Author Associate Mission: An Experimental NH 61 04 1980 447 466 Ministry of the Episcopal Church in Omaha, 1891-1902 James C Olson Author Historical Society (The) – A View NH 61 04 1980 467 472 from the 80s Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 61 04 1980 473 511 1980 (The) J W Robinson Author Shakespeare and Nebraska: Charles NH 60 01 1979 001 021 William Wallace, 1865-1932, and the “Great Index of the World” David Lupton Author Fort Bernard on the Oregon Trail NH 60 01 1979 021 035 Walker Jeremy W Kilar Author Courthouse Politics, Loup City, NH 60 01 1979 036 057 Sherman County, 1887-1891 Douglas O Street Author Band’s Opera House, the Cultural NH 60 01 1979 058 076 Hub of Crete, 1877-1900 Phillips G Davies Author David Jones and Gwen Davies, NH 60 01 1979 077 091 Missionaries in Nebraska Territory, 1853-1860 Roger L Welsch Author “This Mysterious Light Called an NH 60 01 1979 092 113 Airship,” Nebraska “Saucer” Sightings, 1897 Waldo R Wedel Author Introduction This is one of a series of articles based NH 60 02 1979 131 133 on presentations at a mini-symposium “Toward Plains Caddoan Origins: A Symposium” held at the Smithsonian 69 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Institution in November, 1976. By way of introduction, this article presents nine questions addressed at the symposium. Roger T Grange Jr Author Archeological View of Pawnee This is one of a series or articles based NH 60 02 1979 134 160 Origins (An) on presentations at a mini-symposium “Toward Plains Caddoan Origins: A Symposium” held at the Smithsonian Institution in November, 1976. This article is concerned with the Pawnee whose villages were situated on the Loup, Platte, Blue and Republican Rivers. Christopher Lintz Author Southwestern Periphery of the Plains This is one of a series or articles based NH 60 02 1979 161 182 Caddoan Area (The) on presentations at a mini-symposium “Toward Plains Caddoan Origins: A Symposium” held at the Smithsonian Institution in November, 1976. This article examines the southwestern Plains periphery dealing with Plains Caddoan origins. Mildred M Wedel Author Ethnohistoric Approach to Plains This is one of a series or articles based NH 60 02 1979 183 196 Caddoan Origins (The) on presentations at a mini-symposium “Toward Plains Caddoan Origins: A Symposium” held at the Smithsonian Institution in November, 1976. This article uses carefully evaluated document sources which are studied from the viewpoint of one trained in anthropology in order to explain the Plains Caddoan Origins. Douglas R Parks Author Northern Caddoan Languages (The): This is one of a series of articles based NH 60 02 1979 197 213 Their Subgrouping and Time Depths on presentations at a mini-symposium “Toward Plains Caddoan Origins: A Symposium” held at the Smithsonian Institution in November, 1976. This article reviews the Northern Caddoan languages and dialects and their interrelationships, and then presents a set of impressionistic dates that would plausibly account for the separation of 70 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page pairs of these languages.

Douglas R Parks Author Bands and Villages of the Arikara and This is one of a series or articles based NH 60 02 1979 214 239 Pawnee on presentations at a mini-symposium “Toward Plains Caddoan Origins: A Symposium” held at the Smithsonian Institution in November, 1976. This article seeks to reconcile the proper identification of group names mentioned in early written accounts by combining knowledge of the languages with the ethnological background. Martha R Blaine Author Mythology and Folklore: Their This is one of a series or articles based NH 60 02 1979 240 248 Possible Use in the Study of Plains on presentations at a mini-symposium Caddoan Origins “Toward Plains Caddoan Origins: A Symposium” held at the Smithsonian Institution in November, 1976. Since myths contain references to real events, this study works to merge information gathered from myths and folklore with more modern accounts of the Plains Caddoan in order to validate this approach of study. D H Ubelaker Author Plains Caddoan Relationships: The This is one of a series or articles based NH 60 02 1979 249 259 R L Jantz Author View from Craniometry and Mortuary on presentations at a mini-symposium Analysis “Toward Plains Caddoan Origins: A Symposium” held at the Smithsonian Institution in November, 1976. This article presents the use of cemetery excavation and subsequent skeletal analysis to provide cultural data and mortuary customs as well as biological affinities of the groups studied. Alexander Lesser Author Caddoan Kinship Systems This is one of a series or articles based NH 60 02 1979 260 271 on presentations at a mini-symposium “Toward Plains Caddoan Origins: A Symposium” held at the Smithsonian Institution in November, 1976.

71 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Waldo R Wedel Author Some Reflections on Plains Caddoan This is one of a series or articles based NH 60 02 1979 272 293 Origins on presentations at a mini-symposium “Toward Plains Caddoan Origins: A Symposium” held at the Smithsonian Institution in November, 1976. This article presents the traditional and the alternative views of the origins of the Plains Caddoan. David Lynn Batie Author Thomas Rogers Kimball (1890-1912): Thomas Rogers Kimball’s work has a NH 60 03 1979 321 356 Nebraska Architect refined character that projects a highly developed level of architectural training. He created interesting, functional, and beautiful structures comparable to those of his national contemporaries. At his death at age 72, his job book showed 871 commissions. He was a leader in the architectural profession. George C Schottenhamel Author Richardson County Oil Boom (The), NH 60 03 1979 357 371 1938-1942 George C Schottenhamel Author Holdredge High School Teacher (A), NH 60 03 1979 372 400 1900-1905: The Letters of Sadie B Smith Dennis N Mihelich Author World War II and the Transformation Within the decade of the 1940s the NH 60 03 1979 401 423 of the Omaha Urban League forces unleashed by World War II produced a major transformation in the Omaha Urban League. It entered the era as a dispenser of social services, but it emerged from it as a mediator for social justice. David G Dales Author North Platte Racial Incident: Black- A black man, Louis Seeman, shot and NH 60 03 1979 424 446 White Confrontation, 1929 killed a popular North Platte police officer, Edward Green. The black man died, perhaps shot by a police officer or a posse member. Rumors and intimidation then caused black citizens to flee the city. Distorted reports of these events, characterized as a “race riot,” received national publicity.

72 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Everett Dick Author Founding of Union College (The): The roots of Union College run deep NH 60 03 1979 447 470 1890-1900 into the reform movement of the 1840s. From small beginnings in New England and New York, Seven-day Adventism moved west and in 1874, the first Adventist educational institution, Battle Creek College, was founded. When the Real Estate Exchange in Lincoln offered to give 280 acres of land for a site and paid the expenses of the locating committee to come to Lincoln, the decision was soon made to accept the Lincoln offer. This article presents the first decades of the history of Union College in Lincoln. Robert F Sittig Author Presidential Primary Reform: The NH 60 04 1979 499 519 1948 Nebraska “All-Star” Primary Grant K Anderson Author Samuel D Hinman and the Opening of NH 60 04 1979 520 542 the Black Hills William G White Jr Author Fairmont Farmer-Politician, George A NH 60 04 1979 543 555 Williams Ralph R Tingley Author Charles, the “Other” Bryan,” in South NH 60 04 1979 556 566 Dakota in 1979 Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 60 04 1979 567 608 1979 (The) Dolores Gunnerson Editor Esther Gunnison: A Nebraskan at NH 59 01 1978 001 030 Oxford, 1920-1921 Adam C Breckenridge Author Innovation in State Government: NH 59 01 1978 031 046 Origin and Development of the Nebraska Nonpartisan Unicameral Legislature Richard E Jensen Author Oto, Missouria and Agent Dennison In 1861 Oto and Missouria Indians NH 59 01 1978 047 055 (The) arrived in Nebraska City to demand annuity payments promised to them by treaty. Indian Agent Dennison refused them money or food, then disappeared, fleeing to the Confederacy. Had he embezzled their money?

73 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page James F Vivian Author Wilson, Bryan, and the American NH 59 01 1978 056 069 Delegation to the Abortive Fifth Pan American Conference, 1914 Jane Renner Hood Author Reader’s Guide to Women in This article is a bibliographical guide NH 59 01 1978 070 083 Nebraska History Magazine, 1918- to articles appearing in Nebraska 1977 History on a variety of topics. The sections include family life, hardships and dangers of the frontier, social life, intellectual and cultural life, women’s organizations, politics, law, science and medicine, education, Native American women, religion, garrison life, war, and biographies, autobiographies, reminiscences. Elton A Perkey Author Perkey’s Names of Nebraska NH 59 01 1978 084 149 Locations Waldo R Wedel Author Notes on the Prairie Turnip (Psoralea NH 59 02 1978 155 179 esculenta) Among the Plains Indians David M Gradwohl Author Fred H Sterns: A Pioneer in the NH 59 02 1978 180 210 Pursuit of Plains Prehistory Thomas W Dunlay Author James Hervey Pratt: Frontier NH 59 02 1978 211 230 Entrepreneur Harl A Dalstrom Author Defeat of George W Norris in 1942 NH 59 02 1978 231 258 (The) Elton A Perkey Author Perkey’s Names of Nebraska NH 59 02 1978 259 297 Locations Anne Polk Diffendal Author Centennial History of the Nebraska The Nebraska State Historical Society, NH 59 03 1978 311 437 State Historical Society (A), 1878- a state-supported institution, 1978 administers historical activities funded by the state, except formal classroom instruction. It collects and preserves basic sources for the history of Nebraska and the Plains, advances knowledge of this history, and disseminates it to the general public as well as scholars. Elton A Perkey Author Perkey’s Names of Nebraska NH 59 03 1978 438 472 Locations Edward H Worthen Author Mexican Journeys of William NH 59 04 1978 485 500 Jennings Bryan (The), a Good

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Charles W Martin Author Omaha in 1868-1869: Selections NH 59 04 1978 501 525 From the Letters of Joseph Barker Joseph W Snell Author Historical Society in a Modern World NH 59 04 1978 526 538 (The) Dolores Gunnerson Author Thomas Berger Johnson, Nebraska NH 59 04 1978 539 548 Artist, 1890-1968 Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 59 04 1978 549 600 1978 (The) Elton A Perkey Author Perkey’s Names of Nebraska NH 59 04 1978 606 629 Locations Grant K Anderson Author Black Hills Exclusion Policy (The): NH 58 01 1977 001 025 Judicial Challenges John Kyle Davis Author Gray Wolf (The): Tom Dennison of Few individuals have had as strong NH 58 01 1977 025 052 Omaha and lasting influence on the history of Omaha as Tom Dennison. During his nearly 40 years as “boss” of the city’s 3rd Ward, his power was felt in Omaha and, to some extent, throughout Nebraska. Orval F Baldwin II Author Mormon Bride in the Great Migration NH 58 01 1977 053 072 (A) Charles W Shull Editor Minutes of Vigilance Committee, NH 58 01 1977 073 088 Florence, Nebraska, May 29-July 30,1857 Betty Loudon Author Pioneer Pharmacist J Walter Moyer’s NH 58 01 1977 089 117 Notes on Crawford and Fort Robinson in the 1890’s Charles W Martin Editor Joseph Barker and the 1868 Union NH 58 02 1977 123 148 Pacific Railroad Excursion from Omaha Duane Fike Author Table Rock Opera House (The), 1893- NH 58 02 1977 149 174 1900: A Small-Town Community Center Ernst C Helmreich Editor Letters of Pastor Christian Helmreich: NH 58 02 1977 175 192 Establishing a Lutheran Congregation in Weyerts, Nebraska, 1887-1888 Paolo E Coletta Author William Jennings Bryan’s Plans for NH 58 02 1977 193 218 World Peace 75 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Hogan Ouren Author Hogan Ouren in Nebraska and NH 58 02 1977 219 249 Colorado, 1861-1866 James E Potter Editor Missouri River Journal of Leonard W NH 58 03 1977 267 300 Gilchrist (The): 1866 Reg P Duffin Author Amanda Lamin-Devonshire, England: NH 58 03 1977 301 306 or Amanda Lamme-Marthasville, Missouri J Dennis McGuire Author Post Office Primaries: An Experiment Progressive reformer Dan Voorhees NH 58 03 1977 307 322 in Direct Democracy and Postal Stephens of Fremont became the Reform United States Representative from Nebraska’s Third District. This article examines Stephens’ contribution to postal reform—the post office primary system—to show how the system worked, and to illustrate how elements of the progressive philosophy molded his program. Carol Gendler Author First Synagogue in Nebraska (The): In 1825 there were only about six NH 58 03 1977 323 341 The Early History of the Congregation functioning Jewish congregations in of Israel of Omaha the United States. By mid-century the number had increased to fifty. Plans for the first known Jewish services in Nebraska were announced in an Omaha newspaper on September 29, 1867. In 1868, a Hebrew congregation was formed in Council Bluffs. But it was not until 1871 the Omaha Jews formally organized both a religious congregation and a burial society. Garland Blaine Author Pa-Re-Su A-Ri-Ra-Ke: The Hunters The authors present accounts of the NH 58 03 1977 342 358 James Blaine Author That Were Massacred Massacre Canyon battle collected Martha from Pawnee witnesses and their Royce descendants. This evidence suggests that epidemics, war and crop failure— not the massacre—caused the Pawnee to leave their Nebraska homes for Indian Territory. Zacharia L Boughn Author Free Land Myth in the Disposal of the NH 58 03 1977 359 370 Public Domain in South Cedar County, Nebraska

76 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Alma Carlson Roosa Author Homesteading in the 1880’s: The NH 58 03 1977 371 394 Anderson-Carlson Families of Cherry County Michael L Lawson Author Omaha, A City of Ferment: Summer Tensions ran high in Omaha during NH 58 03 1977 395 417 of 1919 the summer of 1919 as inflation raised the cost of living, unions staged strikes, and ethnic and racial distrust grew. Controversy over prohibition, woman suffrage, and corrupt city government further aroused Omaha residents. Street violence at the time of a lynching in September led to a riot that that threatened the life of Mayor Edward Smith and did serious damage downtown. Margaret Masters Author Turlington W Harvey and His Otoe NH 58 04 1977 425 446 Dale County Estate Rosalie Trail Fuller Editor Nebraska High School Teacher in the NH 58 04 1977 447 473 1890’s (A): The Letters of Sadie B Smith David G Wagaman Author Evolution of Some Legal-Economic Private sector strikes and inflation in NH 58 04 1977 474 490 Aspects of Collective Bargaining by the 1920s and 1940s were followed in Public Employees in Nebraska Since the 1960s by public sector employees’ 1919 (The) demands for the right to collective bargaining. The Nebraska Court of Industrial Relations, responsible for arbitrating public employees’ disputes and preventing their strikes, has also worked to preserve their right to equity and due process. Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 58 04 1977 491 532 1977 (The) Elton A Perkey Author Perkey’s Names of Nebraska NH 58 04 1977 537 549 Locations Eleanor H Hinman Interviewer Oglala Sources on the Life of Crazy In June, 1930, Eleanor Hinman, a NH 57 01 1976 001 052 Horse, Interviews given to Eleanor H stenographer at the University of Hinman Nebraska, drove to the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux reservations in South Dakota. Accompanied by Mari Sandoz, the two women, along with John Colhoff, official Pine Ridge 77 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Agency interpreter, proceeded to interview witnesses to various events in the life of Crazy Horse John S Gray Author Pack Train on George A Custer’s Last NH 57 01 1976 053 068 Campaign (The) Anne P Diffendal Author Nebraska in the Centennial Exhibition NH 57 01 1976 069 082 at Philadelphia, 1876 Donald D Snoddy Author Congressional Career of Archibald NH 57 01 1976 083 098 Jerrard Weaver (The), 1882-1887 Richard A Overfield Author Hog Cholera, Texas Fever, and Frank NH 57 01 1976 099 128 S Billings: An Episode in Nebraska Veterinary Science Sarah McAnulty Author Angel DeCora: American Artist and NH 57 02 1976 143 199 Educator Paolo Coletta Author Bryan at Baltimore, 1912: Wilson’s NH 57 02 1976 200 225 Warwick Randy Roberts Author Heavyweight Champion Jack Jack Johnson, the first black NH 57 02 1976 226 241 Johnson: His Omaha Image, A Public heavyweight boxing champion, played Reaction Study an important role in twentieth century America, both as a sports figure and as a pawn in race relations. This article seeks to “correct” his popular image by presenting Omaha’s public response to his public and private life as reflected in the press. Elton A Perkey Author First Farmers’ Alliance in Nebraska NH 57 02 1976 242 247 (The) Scott L Greenwell Author Literary apprenticeship of Mari NH 57 02 1976 248 272 Sandoz (The) Charles E Hanson Jr Author Early Fur Trade in Northwestern Northwest Nebraska, part of the Fort NH 56 03 1976 291 314 Veronica Sue Walters Author Nebraska (The) Pierre-Fort Laramie sphere of activity, had its own fur trade which was separate and distinct from the fur trade of eastern Nebraska, which centered on the Missouri River. John C Jackson Editor Wild Mustang Campaign of 1879 in NH 57 03 1976 315 330 Pumpkin Creek Valley (A): The Memorandum Book of James Robert Jacobsen

78 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Garneth Peterson Author “A Really Spectacular and Truly NH 57 03 1976 331 358 Oldenkamp Named Desperado”; Pat Crowe and the Cudahy Kidnapping Case Allen L Shepherd Author Gentle in Zion: Algernon Sidney NH 57 03 1976 359 378 Paddock and the Utah Commission, 1882-1886 John P McSweeney Author Chancellor Reuben Gustavson, NH 57 03 1976 379 398 Internationalism and the Nebraska People Richard Lowitt Editor George W Norris and the Kinkaid Act NH 57 03 1976 399 404 of 1904: A Footnote Richard Lowitt Editor Shelterbelts in Nebraska Editor Richard Lowitt provides NH 57 03 1976 405 422 introduction to two 1939 articles focused on the Nebraska scene: “A Plea for Great Plains Forestry” prepared by three faculty members of the University of Nebraska and “Tree Planting in The Great Plains” prepared for newspaper publication by US Senator George W Norris. Grant Holcomb Author Painter’s First Commission (A): the NH 57 03 1976 423 429 Portraits of Mr and Mrs Gottlieb Storz of Omaha Ruth Moore Stanley Author Nathan Kirk Griggs, Consul to NH 57 04 1976 439 460 Chemnitz, Germany, 1876-1882 Richmond L Clow Author General Philip Sheridan’s Legacy: General Sheridan hoped to end NH 57 04 1976 461 478 The Sioux Pony Campaign of 1876 hostilities in the northern campaigns by forcing the Sioux to turn in their mounts. The pony campaign was punitive, at least in part; record- keeping was slipshod; compensation was limited and long delayed. Kendrick A Clements Author “A Kindness to Carranza:” William NH 57 04 1976 479 490 Jennings Bryan, International Harvester, and Intervention in Yucatan Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 57 04 1976 491 538 1976 (The) Robert B Casari Author Aviation Corps of the Nebraska National Guard aviation did not really NH 56 01 1975 001 019 National Guard (The), 1915-1917 become effective until sufficient

79 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page federal funds became available in the 1920s. The Army had initially considered the airplane a communications device and had placed the aviation section under the Signal Corps, which severely stunted its development as a military weapon. Earl F Stover Author Chaplain Henry V Plummer, His Chaplain Henry V Plummer, the first NH 56 01 1975 020 050 Ministry and His Court-Martial black Regular Army chaplain, was court-martialed at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, for “conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman.” Plummer’s career as an Army chaplain and the trial which terminated it provide valuable insight into the situation of blacks in the Army during the late 19th century. Virgil Ney Author Prairie Generals and Colonels at NH 56 01 1975 051 076 Cantonment Missouri and Fort Atkinson Michael A Sievers Author Westward By Indian Treaty: The NH 56 01 1975 077 108 Upper Missouri Example Richard E Jensen Editor Description of the Fur Trade in 1831 NH 56 01 1975 109 120 (A) Roger L Nichols Author Army and Early Perceptions of the NH 56 01 1975 121 135 Plains (The) Niel Johnson Author Missouri Synod Lutherans and the During and immediately after World NH 56 01 1975 136 144 War Against the German Language War I, prejudice against German- (The), 1917-1923 Americans in Nebraska forced Missouri Synod Lutherans to close some parochial schools and to restrict the teaching of German in others. Eventually the US Supreme Court ruled against the state legislature’s attempt to exercise control over parochial school education. It overturned a judgment against Robert T Meyer, who had been convicted and fined for teaching German to students, but the use of German in Nebraska schools and churches never again 80 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page became common.

Justus F Paul Author Isolationism Versus Internationalism? NH 56 01 1975 145 156 The Republic Senatorial Primary in Nebraska, 1946 Lela B Costin Author Grace Abbott of Nebraska NH 56 02 1975 165 192

Phyllis Kay Wilke Author Physical Education for Women at NH 56 02 1975 193 220 Nebraska University, 1879-1932 James E Potter Editor Ranch Letters of Emma Robertson NH 56 02 1975 221 230 (The), 1891-1892 Mildred R Bennett Author Willa Cather and the Prairie In August, 1974, The Nature NH 56 02 1975 231 235 Conservancy purchased 610 acres of native grassland in Webster County, Nebraska. The prairie has been set aside as a memorial to Willa Cather, one of the nation’s most distinguished writers of life on the American grasslands. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 with her book One of Ours. Her last novel was published in 1940, seven years before her death. In this article, Mrs Mildred Bennett, President of the Pioneer Memorial Educational Foundation, describes the Nebraska prairie’s influence on the life and writings of Willa Cather. Bess Street Aldrich Author The Story Behind A Lantern in Her With an introduction by Paul Riley, NH 56 02 1975 236 241 Hand the article continues with the background to the novel “A Lantern In Her Hand” by Bess Street Aldrich, in the author’s own words. The article originally was published in the Christian Herald in March of 1952. Norma Kidd Green Author Make-Believe White Man’s Village Omaha Indians led by Joseph La NH 56 02 1975 242 247 (The) Flesche built a village on reservation land in northeastern Nebraska in 1856-1857. The sod or timber houses constructed there formed a “make- believe white man’s village” that existed for about twenty years and 81 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page was the home of many Indian leaders.

H Roger Grant Author Henry Olerich and the Utopian Ideal NH 56 02 1975 248 258

Ferenc M Szasz Author William Jennings Bryan, Evolution, NH 56 02 1975 259 278 and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy Raymond Wilson Compiler Nebraska History in Graduate Theses NH 56 02 1975 279 288 at the University of Nebraska-Omaha Betty Loudon Compiler Nebraska History in Graduate Theses NH 56 02 1975 289 292

David Wagaman Author Industrial Workers of the World in Between 1877 and 1917, as the United NH 56 03 1975 295 338 Nebraska (The), 1914-1920 States become the world’s leading industrial nation, power became centralized in the hands of a few individuals, and life for the working classes became increasingly unbearable. A movement termed the Industrial Workers of the World developed from three working-class elements: Negroes, immigrants, and Native Americans forced off the land. The I.W.W. is thought to have increased wages, shortened hours, and bettered working conditions in the Midwest. Richard E Jensen Author Bellevue: The First Twenty Years, NH 56 03 1975 339 374 1822-1842 Ludy T Benjamin Jr Author Psychology at the University of NH 56 03 1975 375 388 Nebraska, 1889-1930 Richard Guentzel Author Department of the Platte and Western NH 56 03 1975 389 418 Settlement (The), 1866-1877 David Trask Author Natural Partnership (A): Nebraska’s NH 56 03 1975 419 438 Stephens Populists and Democrats and the Development of Fusion Floyd Rodine Author Legislative and Legal Struggle of the NH 56 04 1975 457 470 Grain Cooperatives in Nebraska, 1900-1915 Michael J Harkins Author Public Health Nuisances in Omaha, NH 56 04 1975 471 492 1870-1900

82 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Ludy T Benjamin Jr Author Pioneering Work of Leta NH 56 04 1975 493 506 Hollingworth in the Psychology of Women (The) Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 56 04 1975 507 550 1975 (The) Merrill J Mattes Author New Horizons on the Oregon Trail NH 56 04 1975 555 571

Marion Brown Author Brownville Story (The): Portrait of a NH 55 01 1974 001 142 Marsh Phoenix, 1854-1974 Phyllis H Winkelman Author Fairview: Home of William Jennings NH 55 01 1974 143 156 Bryan Frank N Schubert Author Fort Robinson YMCA (The), 1902- Organizations like the Y.M.C.A. gave NH 55 02 1974 165 180 1907: A Social Organization in a black soldiers at Fort Robinson Black Regiment opportunities to provide leadership, demonstrate skills, and discuss contemporary issues. Through such organizations these cavalrymen stationed at a remote western post maintained ties with the black community. Vance Nelson Editor Fort Robinson During the 1880’s: An NH 55 02 1974 181 202 Omaha Newspaperman Visits the Post Frank N Schubert Author Violent World of Emanuel Stance NH 55 02 1974 203 220 (The), Fort Robinson, 1887 Robert A Schanke Author Fremont’s Love Opera House NH 55 02 1974 221 254

Ronald R Switzer Author Fairbanks Weighing Devices on the NH 55 02 1974 255 264 Steamboat Bertrand Donald K Watkins Editor Dane’s Views on Frontier Culture NH 55 02 1974 265 289 (A): “Notes on a Stay in the United States,” by Wilhelm Dinesen Eric Scott McCready Author Nebraska State Capitol (The): Its A study of the architecture of the NH 55 03 1974 325 461 Design, Background and Influence Nebraska State capitol and its related sculptural and mosaic programs: Charles W Martin Editor Joseph Warren Arnold’s Journal of his NH 55 04 1974 463 552 Trip to and from Montana, 1864-1866 Samuel Walker Author George Howard Gibson, Christian NH 55 04 1974 553 572 Socialist Among the Populists Bower Aly Author John G Neihardt: Man, Poet, and NH 55 04 1974 573 580 Splendid Wayfarer

83 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 55 04 1974 581 616 1974 (The) John S Goff Author Isham Reavis, Pioneer Lawyer and NH 54 01 1973 001 046 Judge James I Dowie Author Urge Man, Ga Westerut (Young Man NH 54 01 1973 047 064 Go Westward) Richard E Dudley Author Nebraska Public School Education, NH 54 01 1973 065 090 1890-1910 Musetta Gilman Author Bookwalter, Agricultural Commune in NH 54 01 1973 091 106 Nebraska David J Wishart Author Age and Sex Compositions of the NH 54 01 1973 107 119 Population on the Nebraska Frontier, 1860-1880 Tim Turner Author Nebraska History in Graduate Theses NH 54 01 1973 120 122

Publisher Quaker Report on Indian Agencies Report of the Joint Delegation [four NH 54 02 1973 151 219 Contents: Introduction; Report; Quaker men who visited the Northern Pawnees; Iowas, Sacs and Foxes; Superintendency in 1869] presented to Otoes and Missourias; Santee Sioux; the Committee on the Indian Concern, The Winnebago Agency; The General of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Condition, Habits and Manners of the York Yearly Meetings, June 21, 1869. Indians; Indian Peculiarities and The report is considered an unusual Superstitions; Some Disconnected description of Indian life. Incidents Attending the Indians and Our Journey; Views Entertained of the “Quaker Experiment”; A Universal Verdict, from the Omaha Daily Herald, August 29, 1869; Excerpt from the New York Weekly Tribune of 9th Mo 29th, 1869; Means of Improving the Indians; How To Visit All the Reservations; Appendix [from the Omaha Herald] The Indians and The Friends Paul D Riley Author Battle of Massacre Canyon (The) The Battle of Massacre Canyon which NH 54 02 1973 220 250 occurred on Tuesday morning, August 5, 1873, was an inter-tribal battle where more than a thousand Sioux made a surprise attack upon 350 Pawnee men, women and children while on their summer buffalo hunt. 84 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page The battle left approximately seventy Pawnee dead and is considered to be the last major battle between two Indian tribes in the United States. Harriet Murphy Author A B Persinger, Nebraska Panhandle NH 54 02 1973 251 306 Persinger Pioneer Searcy James E Potter Author Archival Program at the Nebraska NH 54 02 1973 307 317 State Historical Society (The) Daniel Henry Ehrlich Author Problems Arising from Shifts of the NH 54 03 1973 341 364 Missouri River on the Eastern Border of Nebraska Eric Monkkonen Author Can Nebraska or Any State Regulate NH 54 03 1973 365 382 Railroads? Orville H Zabel Author Community Development: Another NH 54 03 1973 383 398 Look at the Elkhorn Valley Margaret R Seymour Author University of Nebraska School of NH 54 03 1973 399 418 Music (The) Gordon Chappell Author Surgeon at Fort Sidney: Captain Young Captain Walter Reed spent NH 54 03 1973 419 444 Stelling Walter Reed’s Experiences, 1883- only ten months at Fort Sidney, but 1884 his experience in Nebraska with patients suffering from infectious diseases was the foundation for his famous work in bacteriology. The unusually detailed medical records that he created as assistant surgeon demonstrate his awareness of the link between post sanitary conditions and disease. Annadora F Gregory Author Reverend Harmon Bross and NH 54 03 1973 445 474 Nebraska Congregationalism (The), 1873-1928 Ronald A Wells Author Migration and the Image of Nebraska NH 54 03 1973 475 491 in England Oliver Knight Author War or Peace: The Anxious Wait for Crazy Horse surrendered in May of NH 54 04 1973 521 544 Crazy Horse 1877. His surrender meant that the northern plains Indian wars had come to an end. For history, it was an epochal moment. For a people, it was a sad collapse of a proud way of life.

85 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page This article presents the story of his historic surrender. Allen Birchler Author Anti-Evolutionary Beliefs of William William Jennings Bryan was the NH 54 04 1973 545 559 Jennings Bryan (The) foremost spokesman in the United States of forces opposing the evolutionary teachings of Darwinism for the last four years of his life (1921 – 1925). While his beliefs remained essentially unchanged during this period, he was forced to meet the challenge of his beliefs as restated and redefined by the opposition. John W Bailey Author Presidential Election of 1900 in The presidential election of 1900 NH 54 04 1973 560 584 Nebraska (The): McKinley Over proved to be a crucial battle in the Bryan state of Nebraska. President William McKinley and former Nebraska Congressman William Jennings Bryan were the major party candidates. Nebraska voters turned against Bryan, part of a general national pattern that sounded the death knell of the Populist Party in the United States. Paul D Riley Editor Cather Family Letters, 1895 This article presents letters of the NH 54 04 1973 585 618 Willa Cather family illustrating the role of extended family on the frontier. The Cather family was important in the history of Webster County beyond the fame of author Willa Cather. These letters had only come to light after the death of their owner, Retta (Ayre) Miner in 1951. Mildred R Bennett Author What Happened to the Rest of the Of the seven children born to Charles NH 54 04 1973 619 624 Charles Cather Family Fectique and Mary Virginia (Jennie Boak) Cather, only Willa acquired fame as an author. This article provides information on the successes of each of her siblings, bringing the family into perspective. Charles Cowley Author Catherton Post Office In 1876 the Catherton Post Office was NH 54 04 1973 625 632 Wesley established in the Cowley home with Mrs Cowley in charge of the mail. 86 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page The post office remained in this home for eleven years, until the coming of the railroad and the establishment of a post office at Bladen, Nebraska. Reminiscence of Catherton Post Office is by their son, Charles Wesley Cowley, based on a taped interview recorded in 1964. Robert S Kittell Author Omaha Ice Trust (The), 1899-1900: On December 11, 1899, the Reservoir NH 54 04 1973 633 646 An Urban Monopoly Ice Company was formed in Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha already had four major ice companies and several smaller ones, but the new company was a combination of several of the others. The new monopoly began charging sharply increased prices while diminishing services. After various legal actions, the ice company monopoly was dissolved in August of 1900. James W Lindeen Author Sectionalism and Nebraska: Sectionalism results from an uneven NH 54 04 1973 647 655 Presidential Politics geographical distribution of factors that influence social life and, subsequently, political behavior. However, the method used to determine Nebraska’s sectionalism is brought into question in this analysis. Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in Presentation of Marvin F Kivett, NH 54 04 1973 656 695 1973 (The) Director of The Nebraska State Historical Society, from the Annual Meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, September 15, 1973. Includes highlights from previous decade. Presentation includes updates on membership, Nebraska historical sites, archaeology, Lincoln museum, staffing, budget, branch museums, archives, and library. James C Olson Author Arbor Day-A Pioneer Expression of This article is a paper presented at the NH 53 01 1972 001 014 Concern for the Environment annual dinner of the Nebraska State Historical Society, October 23, 1971, 87 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page about the spirit and various motivations behind the environmental push in Nebraska which ultimately established Arbor Day. Kate Davis Author Neighbor to the Mortons NH 53 01 1972 015 034 Winslow Thomas R Walsh Author American Green of Charles Bessey NH 53 01 1972 035 058 (The) William H Beezley Author Homesteading in Nebraska, 1862- NH 53 01 1972 059 076 1872 Burton J Williams Author Trees But No Timber: Prelude to the NH 53 01 1972 077 086 Timber Culture Act Paul D Riley Author Nebraska Hall of Agricultural NH 53 01 1972 087 098 Achievement (The) Roger L Welsch Author “Sorry Chuck”-Pioneer Foodways NH 53 01 1972 099 113

Charles E Hanson Jr Author Reconstruction of the Bordeaux NH 53 02 1972 137 166 Trading Post William E Deahl Jr Author Chadron-Chicago 100-Mile Cowboy Horse racing was a popular sport of NH 53 02 1972 166 193 Race (The) the American West. As preparations were made for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, with its emphasis upon American accomplishments and customs, it was not surprising that someone suggested a horse race from the West to Chicago. The ride was designed to pit skilled Western horsemen against each other over a one thousand-mile route spanning the three states of Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois. This article presents the planning, the promotion, the opposition, and the story of the actual race. James H Howard Author John F Lenger: Music Man Among Lenger was one of several music men NH 53 02 1972 194 216 the Santee who provided a civilizing influence on the frontier. Best known as the leader of a Santee Sioux band, Lenger performed in an Indian costume decorated with late nineteenth- century Santee Dakota beadwork. 88 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page The article includes detailed photographs and analysis of the costume. Lawrence L Murray Author General John J Pershing’s Bid for the NH 53 02 1972 217 252 Presidency in 1920 Leland R Johnson Author Army Engineer on the Missouri in NH 53 02 1972 253 291 1867 (An) Kenneth G Alfers Author Triumph of the West: The Trans- Despite the magnificence of Chicago’s NH 53 03 1972 312 329 Mississippi Exposition Columbian Exposition of 1893, it failed to capture all aspects of American life. The West had been slighted, its people felt, so representatives from the larger cities in the trans-Mississippi region decided to right this. This article provides a brief history, politics and effects of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition held in Omaha. William F Strobridge Author Now Here I Am in the Army NH 53 03 1972 330 338

Virginia Speich Author Political Career of George L Sheldon NH 53 03 1972 339 380 (The), 1907-1909 Robert A Trennert Jr Author Mormons and the Office of Indian For two years during their exodus NH 53 03 1972 381 400 Affairs (The): The Conflict Over from Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley, Winter Quarters, 1846-NH1848 the Mormons occupied a way-station known as Winter Quarters. Near present-day Omaha, this area was originally occupied by the Omaha Indians and other border tribes. By law, the federal government guaranteed the sanctity of Indian lands, so the Mormons’ selection of this area for thousands of whites brought government and church leaders into conflict.

89 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Louise E Rickard Author Politics of Reform in Omaha, 1918- Omaha provides an opportunity for NH 53 04 1972 419 446 1921 the study of the successes and failures of reformism in the Progressive era. An analysis of why municipal reformers were elected in 1918 and why they met defeat so soon might contribute to the understanding Progressivism at the “grass roots” level. David H Price Author Sectionalism in Nebraska: When NH 53 04 1972 447 462 Kansas Considered Annexing Southern Nebraska, 1856-1860 Dennis Thavenet Author Governor William A Richardson: NH 53 04 1972 463 476 Champion of Popular Sovereignty in Territorial Nebraska Thomas N Guinsberg Author George W Norris (Conversion) to NH 53 04 1972 477 490 Internationalism (The), 1939-1941 Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 53 04 1972 491 529 1972 (The) Howard P Chudacoff Author “Where Rolls the Dark Missouri When Omaha was founded by NH 52 01 1971 001 030 Down” promoters in 1854, it was a frontier city. Railroads, agriculture, and commerce contributed to a series of booms and busts in eastern Nebraska. By 1920 Omaha had become a regional center threatened by heated politics and social upheaval. Herbert T Hoover Author John Milton Leeper: Pioneer Farmer NH 52 01 1971 031 044

John Francis McDermott Author Indian as Human Being (The) Improvisation of poetry and song in NH 52 01 1971 045 050 the Indian culture is briefly discussed with excerpts from Washington Irving’s A Tour on the Prairie and various travel journals. The article is primarily a lamentation that travelers in the nineteenth century and the army officers, Indian traders, botanists and missionaries made no attempt to record these “frivolous” songs in order “to show the red man as a human being.” 90 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Roger L Nichols Author Stephen Long and Scientific NH 52 01 1971 051 064 Exploration on the Plains Gerald Baydo Author Overland from Missouri to NH 52 01 1971 065 088 Washington Territory in 1854 Weymoth T Jordan Jr Author Lieutenant C D Cowles at North Platte Stationed for a year in North Platte, NH 52 01 1971 089 091 Station, 1876 Lieutenant Cowles writes home to his father in North Carolina a letter describing his daughter, his garden and the weather at the post. He predicts that the Sioux War will be “the most bloody on record.” Milton E Holtz Author Early Settlement and Public Land NH 52 02 1971 113 132 Disposal in the Elkhorn Valley, Cuming County, Nebraska Territory Lila Gravatt Schrimsher Editor The Diaries and Writings of George A George Maston was born into slavery, NH 52 02 1971 133 168 Maston, Black Citizen of Lincoln, February 3, 1849, in West Virginia. Nebraska, 1901-1913 Young George escaped to Ohio in 1862 with Union Army Captain Israel B Murdock. He was taught the barber trade at 14 and supported himself through the Civil War in Ohio River towns. He became a Methodist Episcopal preacher. William Barnds Author Nebraska College, the Episcopal NH 52 02 1971 169 190 Joseph School at Nebraska City, 1868-1885 R McLaran Sawyer Author No Teacher for the School: The NH 52 02 1971 191 204 Nebraska Junior Normal School Movement Theodore B Lewis Author National Cattle Trail (The), 1883- NH 52 02 1971 205 220 1886 Richard Lowitt Author George W Norris: A Country Boy in US Senator George W Norris (1861- NH 52 03 1971 233 238 an Urbanizing Nation 1944) was born in the country and remained basically a country boy, but had an influential career in an increasingly urban nation. Highlights of his career included his influence in the creation of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), the Rural Electrification Administration and his role in the creation of the unicameral legislature in Nebraska. 91 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Roger L Nichols Author Soldiers as Farmers: Army During the decade following the War NH 52 03 1971 239 254 Agriculturalists in the Missouri of 1812, the military frontier preceded Valley, 1818-1827 the settlers’ frontier in the Missouri Valley and soldiers became pioneer farmers. The soldiers of Fort Atkinson in Eastern Nebraska engaged in the first extensive American agricultural activity west of the Missouri River. [Reprint from Agricultural History, Volume XLIV, Number 2, April, 1970, with permission.] Roger L Welsch Author Myth of the Great American Desert Is Nebraska a desert? No. Was NH 52 03 1971 255 266 (The) Nebraska a desert? Yes. Viewing perceptions of the “Great American Desert” through local humor provides insight into Nebraska’s climatic conditions and the hardships of its settlers. Robert E Wenger Author Anti-Saloon League in Nebraska Was the Nebraska temperance crusade NH 52 03 1971 267 292 Politics (The), 1898-1910 a symbol of status conflict? The article examines the interpretation of the temperance movement as a clash between a dominant rural, middle- class, Protestant life style and an industrial, immigrant, and Catholic culture pattern. Robert W Cherny Author Isolationist Voting in 1940: A Quantitative and qualitative analyses NH 52 03 1971 293 310 Statistical Analysis of the 1940 Presidential Election suggests that German stock citizenry changed voting behavior, shifting from Democratic to Republican voting behavior directed more at Roosevelt than the Democratic party and that this resulted from concern with foreign policy issues. Ruth Godfrey Donovan Author Nebraska League of Women Voters The Nebraska League of Women NH 52 03 1971 311 328 (The) Voters was organized as the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, its predecessor, was dissolved, at the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, June 13 – 15, 1920. This article presents a 92 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page concise 50-year history of the organization and its educational mission. Michael J Harkins Author George Washington Lininger: Pioneer NH 52 04 1971 347 358 Merchant and Art Patron Paolo E Coletta Author Nebraska Democratic Campaign of NH 52 04 1971 359 382 1910 (The) Thomas R Walsh Author Charles E Bessey and the Beginning in 1884, Charles Edwin NH 52 04 1971 383 410 Transformation of the Industrial Bessey led the University of Nebraska College Industrial College from the twilight of manual training to the dawn of science education and research. Farmers were apathetic or opposed to the Industrial College and some politicians were anxious to destroy the college for political reasons. Despite the turmoil, Bessey was able to lay the foundations for an educational complex that has gained an international reputation. Philip A Kalisch Author High Culture on the Frontier: The NH 52 04 1971 411 418 Omaha Library Association Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 52 04 1971 419 448 1971 (The) Bill Vaughan Author Along the Trail—Bill Vaughan Looks NH 52 04 1971 453 460 at Nebraska History Jerome Petsche Author Uncovering the Steamboat Bertrand In 1968, two Omaha salvors, Jesse NH 51 01 1970 001 015 Pursell and Sam Corbino, encountered substantial evidence of a buried steamboat on the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. It was later discovered that this was the Bertrand which was known to have sunk in DeSoto Bend on April 1, 1865. This is a very preliminary report of the discovery and its contents. H M Chittenden Author Reports on Steamboat Wrecks on A list of steamboat wrecks which NH 51 01 1970 016 024 Missouri occurred on the Missouri River in the Nebraska area from the opening of steamboat navigation to the present time [1853 -1897], presented by Captain H M Chittenden, Corps of 93 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Engineers, for inclusion in the Corps of Engineers Annual Report. Includes chart and map, causes and descriptions of wrecks with brief analyses. [Reprint from Nebraska History, 1925] A Clyde Eide Author Free As the Wind In 1925 American manufacturers sold NH 51 01 1970 025 048 more than 95,000 windmills. Because of rural electrification, sales dwindled to less than 10,000 mills by 1956. This windmill “survey” article presents photos and descriptions of the development of the windmill and its significance to more remote areas of the Midwest. Roger L Welsch Author Nebraska’s Round Barns Roger Welsch presents a brief history NH 51 01 1970 049 092 of “round” barns in Nebraska along with diagrams and details of construction, advantages and disadvantages of such barns. An inventory of 36 round barns with some photos is included. James C Olson Author Along the Trail NH 51 01 1970 093 098

Donald D Snoddy Author Medical Aspects of the Lewis and NH 51 02 1970 115 152 Clark Expedition Paul D Riley Author Dr David Franklin Powell and Fort Better known as a Wild West NH 51 02 1970 153 170 McPherson showman and partner of Buffalo Bill Cody, DF Powell served as contract surgeon at Fort McPherson from 1873 to 1874. Letters that he wrote for newspaper publication at the time provide colorful details about military expeditions. Vincent J Flanagan Author Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Explorer NH 51 02 1970 171 198 of Nebraska Territory John G Bitzes Author The Anti-Greek Riot of 1909 – South South Omaha was home to the NH 51 02 1970 199 224 Omaha packing industry, and the Greek immigrants provided a source of cheap labor. Resentment of their place in the local community, suspicion of 94 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page their cultural differences, lack of involvement by local police, and yellow journalism contributed to the brief but deadly and destructive riot that resulted in a Greek flight from the community. Waldo R Wedel Author Along the Trail—Some Observations NH 51 02 1970 225 252 on “Two House Sites in the Central Plains: An Experiment in Archaeology” Melburn D Thurman Author Skidi Pawnee Morning Star Sacrifice A traditional Skidi Morning Star NH 51 03 1970 269 280 of 1827 (The) sacrifice ceremony was cut short in 1827 when the chief or his son saved the Cheyenne woman who was to be its victim. In doing so the Indians chose not to observe the custom of their tribe but to side with a government agent who had intervened to save the woman. David Trask Author Formation and Failure: The Populist NH 51 03 1970 281 302 Stephens Party in Seward County, 1890-1892 Peter H Argersinger Author Divines and the Destitute (The) NH 51 03 1970 303 318

Marshall Bowen Author Environmental Perception and NH 51 03 1970 319 338 Geographic Change in Southwest Sheridan County William D Torrence Author Great Independent: The Lincoln NH 51 03 1970 339 358 Telephone company, 1903-1908 Richard L Guenther Author Santee Normal Training School (The) The Santee Normal Training School NH 51 03 1970 359 378 offered religious and industrial training to Indian young people from 1870 to 1936. Despite cultural and financial obstacles to its success, it is said to have trained nearly half the educated leaders of the Sioux. Dennis Thavenet Author Territorial Governorship: Nebraska NH 51 04 1970 387 410 Territory As Example Edmund J Danziger Jr Author Civil War Problems in the Central and A major task of the Office of Indian NH 51 04 1970 411 424 Dakota Superintendencies: A Case Affairs was to teach the reservation Study tribes to become self-supporting farmers while simultaneously 95 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page protecting them from white as well as Indian encroachers. This is a case study of their successes and failures in their mission. Gordon J Blake Author Government and Banking in NH 51 04 1970 425 436 Territorial Nebraska Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 51 04 1970 437 465 1970 (The) John Alvin Anderson Photographer John Alvin Anderson, Frontier NH 51 04 1970 469 480 Photographer Barry B Combs Author Union Pacific Railroad (The) and the NH 50 01 1969 001 026 Early Settlement of Nebraska 1868- 1880 Silas Seymour Author Western Incidents Connected with the Reprint NH 50 01 1969 027 054 Union Pacific Railroad Gene A Budig Author Day Senator Norris Died (The) NH 50 01 1969 055 066 Donald B Walton Author A Mabel Meier Author Bess Streeter Aldrich NH 50 01 1969 067 100

Along The Trail Reprint NH 50 01 1969 101 106

Burton Williams Author Overland To The Gold Fields of NH 50 02 1969 125 150 California in 1850: The Journal of Calvin Taylor Thomas Hanley Author Western Democrat’s Quarrel With NH 50 02 1969 151 172 O’Brien The Language Laws (A) R McLaran Sawyer Author Samuel DeWitt Beals Frontier NH 50 02 1969 173 184 Educator Douglas A Bakken Author Luna E Kellie and The Farmers’ NH 50 02 1969 185 206 Alliance Ralph M Wardle Author Territorial Bride NH 50 02 1969 207 228

James T King Author “A Better Way:” General George The decision in May 1879 in the NH 50 03 1969 239 256 Crook and the Ponca Indians “Standing Bear vs. Crook” case signaled a change in the treatment of the Indian by the white man. For the first time, the right of the Interior Department to do whatever it would do with the Indians had been challenged, and the challenge was

96 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page successful. General George Crook was instrumental in this outcome. Frederick C Luebke Author Main Street And The Countryside: NH 50 03 1969 257 276 Patterns of Voting in Nebraska During The Populist Era George L Miller Author George L Miller And The Boosting of NH 50 03 1969 277 292 Omaha John R Fisher Author Royall And Duncan Pursuits (The): Royall pursued the Cut-off Oglala to NH 50 03 1969 293 308 Aftermath Of The Battle of Summit the Niobrara and Duncan later clashed Springs, 1869 with them on the Beaver. These expeditions were not conclusive, but they did demonstrate that the military intended to keep order and facilitate settlement in the Republican Valley. Lila Gravatt Scrimsher Author Medicinal Herbs Of Our Forefathers This article presents a sampling of the NH 50 03 1969 309 322 (The) thousands of home remedies documented in early American historical writings, providing insight into traditional natural treatments, some of which have stood the test of time and others not. Along The Trail NH 50 03 1969 323 326

J R Johnson Author Colonel John Miller Stotsenburg: Man NH 50 04 1969 339 358 of Valor C Howard Richardson Author Nebraska Prairies (The): Dilemma to NH 50 04 1969 359 372 Early Territorial Farmers Ian MacPherson Author Better Britons for the Burlington: A NH 50 04 1969 373 408 Study of the Selective Approach of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy in Great Britain, 1871-1875 Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 50 04 1969 409 436 1969 (The) Historical Land Mark Council NH 50 04 1969 441 443

Addison E Sheldon Author Rock Creek Ranch Fight: An NH 49 01 1968 001 004 Introduction George W Hansen Author True Story of Wild Bill – McCanles The author, using original documents NH 49 01 1968 005 046 Affray in Jefferson County, Nebraska, from the Nebraska State Historical July 12, 1861 Society and Gage County Territorial

97 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page documents, recounts a more accurate story of the widely reported Rock Creek Station incident of July 12, 1861, in which three men were killed. The incident is often reckoned as the beginning of James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s career as a gunfighter. The article seeks to dispel many of the sensationalized fictional accounts reported in Harper’s Magazine and other works. William McCanles Author Only Living Eye Witness (The); Series of articles / letters and NH 49 01 1968 047 063 Monroe bibliography substantiating extensive Phil Dawson Author Phil Dawson Writes article on the “true account” of Wild Charles B Letton Author Sketch of George W Hansen (A) Bill Hickok and the events of July 12, Addison E Sheldon Author Descriptive Bibliography of “Wild 1861. See also pages 5 – 46 of this Bill” Nebraska History 49 for the “true account.” George Ward Nichols Author Wild Bill in Harper’s Complete text of the Original “Wild NH 49 01 1968 064 080 H L Hickok Author Letter from Nephew of Wild Bill Bill” Magazine Story as Published in February, 1867. See “True Story of Wild Bill – McCanles Affray in Jefferson County, Nebraska, July 12, 1861” on pages 5-46 of the same issue for perspective on this fictionalized account. Letter from Wild Bill nephew. Carol Gendler Author Territorial Omaha as a Staging and NH 49 02 1968 103 120 Freighting Center Paolo E Coletta Author Patronage Battle Between Bryan and NH 49 02 1968 121 138 Hitchcock (The) Richard Lowitt Editor Nebraska: A Reflective View by NH 49 02 1968 139 148 George W Norris Ann L Wilhite Author Sixty-Five Years Till Victory: A Amelia Bloomer spoke in Omaha in NH 49 02 1968 149 164 Wiegman History of Woman Suffrage in 1855 and other prominent suffragists Nebraska followed. Their attempts to promote women’s rights were opposed by those who felt that women belonged at home or that women would vote for prohibition (a particular concern of German-Americans). The state’s 98 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page voters rejected an 1882 amendment that would have made Nebraska the first state in the Union to give women the right to vote. Nebraska women gained full suffrage only after the Federal Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment, ratified by Nebraska in 1920. Frederick C Luebke Author German-American Alliance in The German-American Alliance of NH 49 02 1968 165 186 Nebraska (The), 1910-1917 Nebraska, organized in 1910, represented many lodges, singing societies, and other organizations. It sought to unify the German community and to represent its political interests. The Alliance supported German language instruction and vigorously opposed prohibition and woman suffrage, both considered threats to the German lifestyle. During World War I its members’ emotional attachment to Germany came to be seen as disloyal to the United States and the German- American Alliance of Nebraska disappeared. Robert W Mardock Author Plains Frontier and the Indian Peace Hostilities between Indians and white NH 49 02 1968 187 202 Policy (The), 1865-1880 men on the Plains erupted at the time of the Civil War, prompting increased military action and even calls for genocide to extinguish the threat to westward expansion. A peace policy based on an enforced reservation plan for the western Indians eventually won the support of Plainsmen, Eastern humanitarians, and Indian rights groups. Everett Dick Author Water, A Frontier Problem As the population of Nebraska moved NH 49 03 1968 215 246 away from the river valleys, the availability of water and the methods of obtaining a ready supply continued to evolve. This article discusses water 99 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page witches, well digging by hand and by auger, drive wells, hydraulic wells as well as the use of pumps, windmills and irrigation in the Nebraska frontier. Justus F Paul Author Making of a Senator (The): The Early NH 49 03 1968 247 268 Life of Hugh Butler J R Johnson Author Covington, Nebraska’s Sinful City NH 49 03 1968 269 282

William E Deahl Jr Author Nebraska’s Unique Contribution to Wild West Show, Buffalo Bill Cody NH 49 03 1968 283 298 the World of Entertainment Annadora F Gregory Author Creating the Fruited Plains NH 49 03 1968 299 322

Roger L Nichols Author Scurvy at Cantonment Missouri, NH 49 04 1968 333 348 1819-1820 Paul V Peterson Author William Jennings Bryan, World- NH 49 04 1968 349 372 Herald Editor Willa Cather Author Incomparable Opera House (The) NH 49 04 1968 373 378 Mildred R Bennett Editor Theodore C Wenzlaff Editor Russian Germans Come to the United The article summarizes the history of NH 49 04 1968 379 400 Theodore C Wenzlaff Translator States (The) German settlements in Russia and the arrival of the Russian Germans in the Dakota Territory and Nebraska beginning in 1873. It includes translations of Friedrich Mutschkelknaus’s account of their migration to Dakota and Peter Griess’s account of their settlement in Sutton, Nebraska. Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 49 04 1968 401 433 1968 (The) James L Sellers Memorial Award NH 49 04 1968 434 436 (The) Historical Land Mark Council (The) NH 49 04 1968 437 437

William Urbach Author Our Parents were Russian German The author’s immigrant grandparents NH 48 01 1967 001 026 settled in Nebraska, drawn by the railroads’ offer of cheap farm land. Getting by was a struggle that involved many moves and many jobs. The family cherished time spent 100 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page with others on holidays, picnics and trading days in town. Charles W Martin Author Herndon House Register, 1865-1866 NH 48 01 1967 027 044

Larry G Osnes Author Charles W Bryan: “His Brother’s NH 48 01 1967 045 068 Keeper” Robert F Himmelberg Editor William Jennings Bryan, Orlando Jay NH 48 01 1967 069 080 Raymond J Cunningham Editor Smith and the Founding of The Commoner: Some New Bryan Letters Douglas A Bakken Author Chronology of Nebraska Statehood NH 48 01 1967 081 090

A Bower Sageser Author Windmill and Pump Irrigation on the NH 48 01 1967 107 118 Great Plains, 1890-1910 Gary D Olson Author Relief for Nebraska Grasshopper NH 48 02 1967 119 140 Victims: The Official Journal of Lieutenant Theodore E True Joseph W Snell Author Wild and Wooly West of the Popular NH 48 02 1967 141 154 Writer (The) Ruth Moore Stanley Author R E Moore and the Income Tax of NH 48 02 1967 155 180 1918 Tribute to Nebraska NH 48 02 1967 181 192

Oscar O Winther Author English in Nebraska (The), 1857-1880 NH 48 03 1967 209 224

Homer Socolofsky Author Land Disposal in Nebraska, 1854- NH 48 03 1967 225 248 1906 John T Schlebecker Author Agriculture in Western Nebraska, In order to learn how Eastern and NH 48 03 1967 249 266 1906-1966 Western Nebraska differed, statistics and information were collected for 37 western Nebraska counties and the totals then compared with the state and eastern totals. Norma Kidd Green Author Presbyterian Mission to the Omaha The Presbyterian Mission, a NH 48 03 1967 267 288 Indian Tribe (The) government-supported boarding school for children of the Omaha tribe, was constructed near Bluebird Creek in 1856-1857. Not only classes but religious services and community meetings were held there until the government stopped funding church schools. Later the mission reopened 101 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page as a boarding school for Omaha Indian girls. Robert N Manley Author Chancellor Allen R Benton Comes to NH 48 04 1967 305 330 Nebraska Harold Cooper Author Great Nebraska Navy (The): Its NH 48 04 1967 331 334 Origin and Growth Roger L Welsch Author Nebraska Soddy (The) Roger Welsch explores the complex NH 48 04 1967 335 342 and exacting technology of sod house building, providing descriptions and conclusions about the actual building methods, based on pioneer accounts, interviews, historian descriptions, and a computer analysis of 800 sod-house photographs. Marvin F Kivett Author Annual Report for 1967 NH 48 04 1967 343 358

Everett Dick Author Sunbonnet and Calico, the The young woman homesteader’s life NH 47 01 1966 003 014 Homesteader’s Consort is vividly and emotionally described by the author. The isolation and harsh physical conditions caused many to fail, but many stayed and conquered the challenges with their husbands and families. This article is a tribute to those who succeeded in settling the prairie lands and dispels any “romantic notion” of the homesteaders’ daily lives. Frederick C Luebke Author Political Response to Agricultural The Nebraska farmer turned to politics NH 47 01 1966 015 056 Depression in Nebraska, 1922 in 1922 for solutions to the economic problems he was experiencing in the severe depression of that year. He rejected the notion that his plight was none of the government’s business. The political parties of Nebraska were aware of this discontent and all responded, to varying degrees, to the pressure. The agrarian voter was demanding an equality of economic opportunity, a reduction in taxes, and an elimination of what he believed to be wasteful spending. 102 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Berlin B Chapman Author Barnes Family of Barneston (The) The family formed by the marriage of NH 47 01 1966 057 084 Mary Jane Drips Benoist to Francis Marion Barnes on November 16, 1856 settled on the Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation in 1859, receiving allotments numbered 321 and 322, a total of 633 acres in present-day Richardson County. About 1870 the Barnes family located at the Oto Agency at present Barneston. The Barnes family had an important role in the history of the Oto and Missouri Tribe. Burton S Hill Author Great Indian Treaty Council of 1851 The Indian Treaty of 1851 created at NH 47 01 1966 085 110 (The) Fort Laramie (sometimes known as the Horse Creek Treaty) proposed to make a firm and lasting peace between the visiting Indian nations and the United States and establish the right of the United States to make roads, and military and other posts within the Indian Territories. In addition, the United States agreed to protect the Indians from depredations of the whites and provide $50,000 annual compensation to the tribes (later reduced to $10,000 by the Senate). Also, the Indians were to select a Principal Chief to represent the nations, and Indian nation boundaries were established, as well as other stipulations. While many problems were solved by the treaty of 1851, there were problems which resulted in violence, warfare and future treaties as well. James C Olson Author James Lee Sellers NH 47 02 1966 123 138

John D Hicks Author Then (1891) and Now (1966); Some NH 47 02 1966 139 156 Comparisons and Contrasts

103 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Robert N Manley Author Wealth Beneath the Prairie: The NH 47 02 1966 157 176 Search for Coal in Nebraska Ruth Moore Stanley Author Newspaper Comment on Jay Gould NH 47 02 1966 177 186 and the State Republican Convention of 1876 Donald F Danker Author Influence of Transportation upon NH 47 02 1966 187 208 Nebraska Territory (The) James T King Author Sword and the Pen (The): The Poetry NH 47 03 1966 229 246 of the Military Frontier Gilbert C Fite Author William Jennings Bryan and the NH 47 03 1966 247 264 Campaign of 1896; Some Views and Problems R Jay Roberts Author History of Agate Springs (The) NH 47 03 1966 265 294

William D Rowley Author Loup City Riot of 1934 (The): Main The Loup City People’s Standard NH 47 03 1966 295 328 Street vs The “Far-out” Left championed the far left’s short-lived attempt to organize Nebraska farmers and workers in the 1930s through the Midwest Farm Holiday movement (Madison County Plan). Locally administered justice and a vigilante committee prevailed against outside agitators. Donald Mahoney Editor End of an Era: The Travel Journey of NH 47 03 1966 329 338 Mary Mahoney Donald Jackson Author Zebulon Pike and Nebraska In 1806 Zebulon Pike, sent to solicit NH 47 04 1966 355 370 the allegiance of the Pawnee, had to begin by persuading them to pull down the Spanish flag. Both Kansas and Nebraska have long laid claim to the site where the United States flag subsequently flew. Paul D Riley Editor Red Willow County Letters of Royal NH 47 04 1966 371 398 Buck, 1872-1873 Justus F Paul Author Nebraska’s Record in the Senate: NH 47 04 1966 399 408 Nine Senators in Three Years Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 47 04 1966 409 424 1966 (The) John D Hicks Author My Nine Years at the University of NH 46 01 1965 001 028 Nebraska

104 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Truman Camp Editor Journal of Joseph Camp (The), 1859 NH 46 01 1965 029 038

Ruth Moore Stanley Author N K Griggs and The Nebraska Nathan Kirk Griggs, Nebraska lawyer NH 46 01 1965 039 066 Constitutional Convention of 1871 and statesman, was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1871. Only twenty-seven years old, he served on six committees and occasionally chaired sessions of the convention. Although he was known as an advocate for justice in general, he strongly opposed woman suffrage. Richard Lowitt Editor Blackledge on Norris: Reflections on NH 46 01 1965 067 076 Nebraska Justice in the 1890’s Roland M Gephart Author Politicians, Soldiers and Strikes: The The Nebraska militia became a rival NH 46 02 1965 089 120 Reorganization of the Nebraska of the regular army during the early Militia and the Omaha Strike of 1882 1880s as an agency for quelling civil disturbances, including strikes. This revival of the militia increased the power of the governor and the secretary of state. William F Schmidt Editor Letters of Charles and Helen Wooster NH 46 02 1965 121 138 (The): The Problems of Settlement Raymond W Settle Author Problem in Identity (A): Two NH 46 02 1965 139 156 Mary Lund Settle Author Nathaniel Pryors David F Trask Author Note on the Politics of Populism (A) NH 46 02 1965 157 162

James T King Author Forgotten Pageant – The Indian Wars King provides a survey of the military NH 46 03 1965 177 192 in Western Nebraska frontier in Nebraska, emphasizing the post-Civil War period when the Indian-fighting Army was most closely associated with the people of western Nebraska. By the 1880s Indian power on the Central Plains had been broken and the Army was abandoning its Nebraska forts. Richard G Sherman Author Charles G Dawes, A Nebraska NH 46 03 1965 193 208 Businessman, 1887-1894: The Making of an Entrepreneur Richard G Sherman Author History of the Welsh Community of NH 46 03 1965 209 224 Carroll Nebraska (A)

105 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page William E Christensen Editor Cross of Gold Reburnished (The): A NH 46 03 1965 225 234 Contemporary Account of the 1896 Convention Daniel D Holt Editor “It…Belongs to the Old Regime” – NH 46 03 1965 235 244 Eugene F Ware Writes from Fort Kearny, 1864 A R Mortensen Author Mormons, Nebraska and the Way NH 46 04 1965 259 272 West Charles W Martin Editor Round Trip to the Montana Mines NH 46 04 1965 273 314 (A): The 1866 Travel Journal of Gurdon P Lester Orville H Zabel Author To Reclaim the Wilderness: The NH 46 04 1965 315 324 Immigrant’s Image of Territorial Nebraska Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society of NH 46 04 1965 325 349 1965 (The) John D Unruh Jr Author Burlington and Missouri River NH 45 01 1964 003 030 Railroad Brings the Mennonites to Nebraska (The), 1873-1878 Paolo E Coletta Author William Jennings Bryan and Currency NH 45 01 1964 031 058 and Banking Reform Roy W Meyer Author Establishment of the Santee Indians from Crow Creek found new NH 45 01 1964 059 098 Reservation (The), 1866-1896 opportunities on the Santee reservation in Nebraska, even though it was not an ideal site. The Sioux who remained there tried to make a living as farmers and had access to education. James T King Editor Fort McPherson in 1870: A Note by NH 45 01 1964 099 108 an Army Wife Benjamin Cooling Author First Nebraska Infantry Regiment and The battle at Fort Donelson was a NH 45 02 1964 131 146 Franklin the Battle of Fort Donelson (The) victory of strategic importance for a winning combination of land and naval power working together, forged on the Twin Rivers in early 1862. The men of the First Nebraska could claim their share of the credit for success, with their stubborn defense astride the Wynn’s Ferry Road.

106 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Norman L Zucker Author George W Norris: Progressive from George W Norris subscribed to an NH 45 02 1964 147 166 the Plains agrarian ideal and its values. But his affection and nostalgia for the family farmer blinded him to the realization that the advance of a new technology was rapidly creating the factory farm. Refusing to come to grips with that agriculture’s diminishing importance in the social and political scene. His fundamental error was failure to see that agriculture is not a simple, homogeneous unit of society but encompasses many different groups with complex problems. Norma Kidd Green Author Four Sisters: Daughters of Joseph Joseph LaFlesche [Iron Eye], the last NH 45 02 1964 167 176 LaFlesche recognized chief of the Omaha tribe, signed the treaty of 1854 relinquishing all rights to the Indian hunting grounds west of the Missouri. Having seen the steady flow of white men to the frontier and having traveled with his French father, he could not have anticipated the vast changes the coming of the railroad would bring. His four daughters were born between 1854 and 1865, when the old customs were disappearing, and they learned to speak, dress, act and think as the white men did. John D Unruh Author Burlington and Missouri River Just after the Burlington Railroad NH 45 02 1964 177 206 Railroad Brings the Mennonites to settled the Kleine Gemeinde Nebraska (The), 1873-1878 Mennonites on its lands in Jefferson County, it tried to conclude an agreement with a much larger group of Mennonites temporarily being housed in Lincoln, Nebraska. A E Touzalin was able to secure some Mennonite settlers through a carefully planned and executed advertising campaign, willingness to change state laws if necessary and the extremely

107 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page liberal financial terms offered to the immigrants. James T King Author Needed: A Re-evaluation of General The summer campaign of 1876, one of NH 45 03 1964 223 236 Crook General Crook’s least successful ventures, shows him in a much less favorable light than Bourke’s classic biography On the Border With Crook. King suggests the need for a new biography of the military leader. Robert N Manley Author Note on Government and Agriculture NH 45 03 1964 237 252 (A): A Nineteenth Century Nebraska View D Jerome Tweton Author Three Scandinavian Immigrants in the NH 45 03 1964 253 264 American West William J Stewart Author Speculation and Nebraska’s Public NH 45 03 1964 265 272 Domain 1863-1872 Roger T Grange Jr Author Treating the Wounded at Fort Two doctors stationed at Fort NH 45 03 1964 273 294 Robinson Robinson recorded information about the medical treatment given to soldiers and Indians wounded in the Cheyenne Outbreak in 1879. The article includes detailed reports concerning soldiers and a list of Indians and their injuries. Robert F Wesser Author George W Norris: The Unicameral NH 45 04 1964 309 322 Legislature and the Progressive Ideal Pat M Ryan Author Hallo’s Opera House: Pioneer Theatre NH 45 04 1964 323 330 of Lincoln, Nebraska Walter D Wyman Author Water-Witching, Body-Finding, and NH 45 04 1964 331 342 Grassroots Lore on the Midwest Frontier James L Sellers Author Fairview Dedication NH 45 04 1964 343 346

Marvin F Kivett Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 45 04 1964 347 370 1964 (The) Marvin F Kivett Author Richard Dean Rowen NH 44 01 1963 001 002

Second Nebraska’s Campaign Against NH 44 01 1963 003 052 the Sioux (The)

108 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Roger L Nichols Editor General Henry Atkins’s Report of Atkinson’s report includes a narrative NH 44 02 1963 065 082 The Yellowstone Expedition of 1825 of the trip and descriptions of the Indian tribes he encountered. The War Department based its actions and policies on such reports. Stanley B Parsons Author Who Were the Nebraska Populists? This article presents a study of NH 44 02 1963 083 100 Nebraska Populism, emphasizing the movement at its grass roots level. Who were the Populists and who were their enemies? What helped to influence the political loyalties during the era? This study focuses on the county level, seeking answers to these questions. Roger T Grange Jr Author Digging at Fort Kearney NH 44 02 1963 101 122

Homer E Socolofsky Author Why Settle in Nebraska – The Case of NH 44 02 1963 123 132 John Rogers Maltby J R Johnson Author Imperialism in Nebraska, 1898-1904 NH 44 03 1963 141 166

Paolo E Coletta Author Bryan, Anti-Imperialism, and NH 44 03 1963 167 188 Missionary Diplomacy Kurt Wimer Author Senator Hitchcock and the League of NH 44 03 1963 189 204 Nations Robert P Wilkins Author Non-Ethnic Roots of North Dakota NH 44 03 1963 205 222 Isolationism (The) Harry H Anderson Author Indian Peace-Talkers and the When Indian leaders persuaded hostile NH 44 04 1963 233 254 Conclusion of the Sioux War of 1876 Sioux groups to surrender, the success of the peace talkers made an all-out military campaign unnecessary. An area including portions of five later states thus became safe for settlement. Robert N Manley Author In the Wake of the Grasshoppers: NH 44 04 1963 255 276 Public Relief in Nebraska, 1874-1875 Edith Hall Author Biography of a Pioneer Nebraska NH 44 04 1963 277 296 Thompson Doctor (The): John Wesley Thompson W D Aeschbacher Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 44 04 1963 297 320 1963 (The) Ray H Mattison Author Homestead National Monument: Its NH 43 01 1962 001 028 Establishment and Administration

109 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Earl R Harris Author Courthouse and Jail Rocks: NH 43 01 1962 029 052 Landmarks on the Oregon Trail John L Shover Author Farm Holiday Movement in Nebraska The Farm Holiday movement arose in NH 43 01 1962 053 078 (The) response to the price and mortgage emergency in the farm states in the 1930s. Farmers blockaded highways leading to markets and tried to halt foreclosure sales, demanding cost of production guarantees. New Deal promises of economic improvement brought an end to the movement. Ray H Mattison Editor Harney Expedition Against the Sioux The Harney Expedition set out to NH 43 02 1962 089 130 (The): The Journal of Capt John B S punish Sioux Indians who had Todd attacked an army detachment and later the military escort of a mail party in 1854. Todd describes the route, the weather, and the health problems encountered by the troops. Wallace D Farnham Author Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 (The) NH 43 03 1962 141 168

Donald Smythe S J Author John J Pershing at the University of NH 43 03 1962 169 196 Nebraska, 1891-1895 C G Wallace Author Municipally Owned Power Plants in NH 43 03 1962 197 202 Harold O Johnson Author Nebraska Everett N Dick Author Free Homes for the Millions NH 43 04 1962 211 228

Robert N Manley Author Nebraska State Council of Defense As the National Nonpartisan League NH 43 04 1962 229 252 and the Non-Partisan League (The) sought to establish a state organization in Nebraska near the end of World War I, it encountered powerful resistance from the Nebraska State Council of Defense. The Council asserted that the League’s policies were disloyal, a threat to the war effort and to American society in general. Emotionalism stirred by wartime tensions increased opposition to the League. Eventually the League chose to withdraw from Nebraska to avoid the risk of extended court battles with the Council of Defense. 110 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Norma Kidd Green Author Ghost Counties of Nebraska NH 43 04 1962 253 264

W D Aeschbacher Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 43 04 1962 265 284 1962 (The) Ray H Mattison Author Upper Missouri Fur Trade (The): Its The fur trade flourished along the NH 42 01 1961 001 028 Methods of Operation Missouri in the early years of the nineteenth century. Traders concerned solely with profit exploited the Indians who worked for them. That treatment caused a distrust of white men that lingered after the annihilation of bison herds in the early 1880s had made fur trading an insignificant business. William T Corbusier Author Camp Sheridan, Nebraska The author, son of an army surgeon, NH 42 01 1961 029 054 lived at Camp Sheridan from 1877- 1880. He describes the family’s quarters, meals, pastimes, and holiday celebrations with Indians. He quotes at length from his mother’s diary. Harry H Anderson Author War Club of Sitting Bull The Oglala When Northern Indians tried to NH 42 01 1961 055 062 (The) destroy a new flag pole inside the Red Cloud Agency stockade in 1874, Sitting Bull and his Oglalas protected it from the attackers until soldiers could reach the site. Sitting Bull’s weapon was a famous three-bladed war club. Richard Lowitt Author Populism and Politics: The Start of NH 42 02 1961 075 094 George W Norris’ Political Career Norman L Zucker Author George W Norris: Nebraska Moralist NH 42 02 1961 095 124

James A Stone Editor Norris Program in 1924 (The) NH 42 02 1961 125 140

Herbert E Kahler Author Preserving Our Heritage NH 42 03 1961 149 160

Donald F Danker Author North Brothers and The Pawnee Pawnee scouts demonstrated NH 42 03 1961 161 180 Scouts (The) eagerness, endurance, and tracking abilities valuable in wilderness warfare. Under the leadership of Frank North, they played an important 111 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page role in the Indian Wars from 1865- 1877 and contributed to the construction of the Union Pacific railroad. Robert L Gale Author Willa Cather and the Usable Past NH 42 03 1961 181 190

C Clyde Jones Author Purebred Dairy Sire Development NH 42 03 1961 191 200

Norman A Graebner Author Nebraska’s Missouri River Frontier, NH 42 04 1961 213 236 1854-1860 Harry H Anderson Editor Letters of Peter Wilson (The), First In 1824 Peter Wilson assumed his NH 42 04 1961 237 264 Resident Agent Among the Teton post as sub-agent for the upper Sioux Missouri. He was to lay the ground work for an expedition the following summer among the tribes of that region and to keep the Missouri River Sioux friendly to the United States. The article includes both official and personal letters from Wilson. W D Aeschbacher Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 42 04 1961 265 284 1961 (The) Paolo E Coletta Author Bryan, Cleveland, and the Disrupted NH 41 01 1960 001 028 Democracy, 1890-1896 Boyce House Author Bryan at Baltimore, the Democratic NH 41 01 1960 029 052 National Convention of 1912 Boyd Carter Author William Jennings Bryan in Mexico NH 41 01 1960 053 064

James C Olson Author Ned C Abbott NH 41 02 1960 079 082

Merrill Mattes Author Pony Express (The): Across Nebraska NH 41 02 1960 083 122 Paul Henderson Author From St Joseph to Fort Laramie Charles J Wilkerson Editor Letters of Ed Donnell (The), Nebraska NH 41 02 1960 123 152 Pioneer James T King Author Republican River Expedition June – The Republican River Expedition NH 41 03 1960 165 200 July, 1869 (The): I. On the March against the Cheyenne had to contend with elusive enemies, false alarms and weary troops. Despite all these obstacles the expedition ultimately changed the Republican Valley from an Indian-held wilderness to a region 112 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page ready for settlement.

Marguerette Burke Editor Henry James Hudson and the Genoa This article includes diary entries for NH 41 03 1960 201 236 R Settlement Hudson’s 1857 boat trip from St. Louis to Genoa, a report that he sent to a Salt Lake City newspaper later that year, and the text of a speech that he delivered after the Civil War. The speech explains how the land near Genoa, settled with great effort by the Mormons, later became part of the Pawnee Indians’ allotted reservation. Donald Jackson Author Lewis and Clark Among the Oto Meriwether Lewis, setting out in 1804 NH 41 03 1960 237 248 to win the allegiance of the western tribes, began with the Oto. Lewis’s bargaining tools included an invitation for Chief Petit Voleur to visit President Jefferson in Washington. Ray Allen Billington Author West of Frederick Jackson Turner NH 41 04 1960 261 280 (The) James T King Author Republican River Expedition June – Immediately after the Civil War the NH 41 04 1960 281 298 July, 1869 (The): II The Battle of United States Army was charged with Summit Springs protecting the advance of white settlers into the central plains. The Republican River Expedition had to endure a month of hard marching and disappointing results before its victory at Summit Springs. Wallace Brown Author George L Miller and the Struggle NH 41 04 1960 299 318 Over Nebraska Statehood W D Aeschbacher Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 41 04 1960 319 342 1960 (The) Sally A Johnson Author Sixth’s Elysian Fields (The): Fort NH 40 01 1959 001 038 Atkinson on the Council Bluffs Marvin F Kivett Author Excavations at Fort Atkinson, NH 40 01 1959 039 066 Nebraska: A Preliminary Report George H Roberts Author Ancestry of Latakuts Kalahar (Fancy NH 40 01 1959 067 074 George E Hyde Annotator Eagle) Agnes Horton Author History of Nebraska’s Saline Land NH 40 02 1959 089 104 Grant (The)

113 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page A Bower Sageser Author Attempted Economic Adjustments in NH 40 02 1959 105 118 Holt County During the 1890’s Benjamin Pfeiffer Author Role of Joseph E Johnson and His NH 40 02 1959 119 136 Pioneer Newspapers in the Development of Territorial Nebraska (The) Richard Lowitt Author George W Norris, James J Hill, and NH 40 02 1959 137 146 the Railroad Rate Bill Gilbert C Fite Author Flight from the Farm NH 40 03 1959 159 176

Richard C Overton Author Why Did the C B & Q Build to NH 40 03 1959 177 206 Denver? James I Dowie Author Sven Gustaf Larson, Pioneer Pastor to NH 40 03 1959 207 222 the Swedes of Nebraska Stanley R Ross Author Cuban View of William Jennings NH 40 03 1959 223 226 Bryan (A) John D Hicks Author Two Postwar Decades, the 1920’s and NH 40 04 1959 243 264 the 1950’s: Some Comparisons and Contrasts James L Sellers Author These Centennial Years NH 40 04 1959 265 274

Paolo E Coletta Author William Jennings Bryan’s Second NH 40 04 1959 275 292 Congressional Campaign W D Aeschbacher Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 40 04 1959 293 314 1959 (The) Jack W Rodgers Author Foreign Language Issue in Nebraska When the United States entered World NH 39 01 1958 001 022 (The), 1918-1923 War I in 1917, the loyalty of German- Americans became suspect. In Nebraska anti-German feeling led to attacks on the teaching and use of the German language. These attacks subsided as the war ended, but German never regained its pre-war popularity. Richard Lowitt Author Norris and Nebraska, 1885-1890 NH 39 01 1958 023 040

Monroe Billington Editor Pothook Pioneer, A Reminiscence by NH 39 01 1958 041 056 Ada Blayney Clark Charles S Reed Author Life in a Nebraska Soddy, A NH 39 01 1958 057 074 Reminiscence

114 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Donald F Danker Editor Journal of An Indian Fighter (The) – NH 39 02 1958 087 178 The 1896 Diary of Major Frank J North Roger T Grange Jr Author Fort Robinson, Outpost on the Plains NH 39 03 1958 191 240

Ray H Mattison Author Indian Frontier on the Upper Missouri NH 39 03 1958 241 266 to 1865 Thomas P Beall Author School Days in Hebron – A NH 39 03 1958 267 276 Reminiscence of Seventy-Five Years Ago Wayne Gard Author Role of the Cattle Trails (The) NH 39 04 1958 287 302

Nyle H Miller Author Some Widely Publicized Western NH 39 04 1958 303 316 Police Officers Paolo E Coletta Author Nebraska Democratic State NH 39 04 1958 317 334 Convention of April 13-14, 1892 (The) W D Aeschbacher Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 39 04 1958 335 354 1958 (The) Berlin B Chapman Author Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation NH 38 01 1957 001 024 (The) Mary Louise Jeffery Author Young Radicals of the Nineties NH 38 01 1957 025 042

Clinton Warne Author Some Effects of the Introduction of NH 38 01 1957 043 058 the Automobile on Highways and Land Values in Nebraska H Clare Welker Author Our First Year on a Nebraska Farm NH 37 01 1957 051 058

Aubrey C Land Author Two Years of American Heritage NH 38 01 1957 059 068 Louis A Holmes Author Samuel Proctor Editor From Nebraska to Florida – A NH 37 01 1957 059 066 Memorandum Written by William Jennings Bryan J R Johnson Author Nebraska in the Seventies NH 37 02 1957 079 102

Donald F Danker Editor Imprisoned at Andersonville: The During the Civil War, huge numbers NH 38 02 1957 081 126 Diary of Albert Harry Shatzell, May of men were captured by both sides. 5, 1864-September 12, 1864 Confederates held about 195,000 Union soldiers and the United States held about 215,000 Confederate soldiers. The most notorious of the 115 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Confederate prisons was officially named Camp Sumter, but it was better known as Andersonville and was located in Georgia. The conditions at Andersonville were among the worst, a place were 12,912 prisoners died, most of them in 1864. This diary presents a first-hand look at the privation and suffering endured by thousands of prisoners at Andersonville. Ray H Mattison Author Indian Missions and Missionaries on NH 38 02 1957 127 154 the Upper Missouri to 1900 Paolo E Coletta Author Tempest in a Teapot (A)? – Governor NH 38 02 1957 155 164 Poynter’s Appointment of William V Allen to the United States Senate R E Dale Author Back to Normal NH 38 03 1957 179 206

Charles Jenkins Author Kearney Cotton Mill (The) – A NH 38 03 1957 207 220 Bubble That Burst K Ross Toole Author Historical Society and Its Function NH 38 03 1957 221 228 today (The) Sally A Johnson Author Fort Atkinson at Council Bluffs NH 38 03 1957 229 236

James L Sellers Author James E Lawrence, Dedicated NH 38 04 1957 249 258 Nebraskan Herbert S Schell Author American Leviathan (The): A NH 38 04 1957 259 276 Historical View Maurice Frink Author Hoosier on the High Plains NH 38 04 1957 277 284

C Clyde Jones Author Val Kuska, Agricultural Development NH 38 04 1957 285 294 Agent William D Aeschbacher Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 38 04 1957 295 314 1957 (The) Lloyd E McCann Author Grattan Massacre (The) NH 37 01 1956 001 026

Donald F Danker Author Nebraska Winter Quarters Company NH 37 01 1956 027 050 (The) and Florence Paolo E Coletta Author Morning Star of the Reformation NH 37 02 1956 103 120 (The)

116 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Sally A Johnson Author Cantonment Missouri, 1819-1820 NH 37 02 1956 121 134

Willard E Wight Editor Young Medical Officer’s Letters NH 37 02 1956 135 148 From Fort Robinson and Fort Leavenworth (A), 1906-1907 Ray H Mattison Author Military Frontier (The) on the Upper NH 37 03 1956 159 182 Missouri Edgar A Hornig Author Indefatigable Mr Bryan in 1908 (The) NH 37 03 1956 183 200

Harry Anderson Author Controversial Sioux Amendment to NH 37 03 1956 201 220 the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 (The) Clinton Warne Author Acceptance of the Automobile in NH 37 03 1956 221 236 Nebraska (The) James Clifton Olson, Director of the NH 37 04 1956 245 246 Nebraska State Historical Society, 1946-1956 Thomas D Clark Author Arts and Sciences on the Early NH 37 04 1956 247 268 American Frontier Howard H Peckham Author Opportunities in Local History NH 37 04 1956 269 282

Donald F Danker Author Nebraska and the Presidential Election NH 37 04 1956 283 310 of 1912 William D Aeschbacher Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 37 04 1956 311 334 1956 (The) Merrill J Mattes Author Chimney Rock on the Oregon Trail NH 36 01 1955 001 026

Robert E Bader Author Curtailment of Railroad Service in NH 36 01 1955 027 042 Nebraska (The), 1920-1941 E Widtsoe Shumway Author Winter Quarters, Nebraska NH 36 01 1955 043 054

Helen Masters Author Joseph G Masters, 1873-1954 NH 36 01 1955 055 070 Geneva Meroe J Owens Author John Barzynski, Land Agent NH 36 02 1955 081 092

Robert D Harper Author Theatrical Entertainment in Early NH 36 02 1955 093 104 Omaha Frank W Dean Author Pioneering in Nebraska, 1872-1879 NH 36 02 1955 105 122

Aubrey Diller Author James Mackay’s Journey in Nebraska NH 36 02 1955 123 128

117 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Ray H Mattison Author Indian Reservation System on the NH 36 03 1955 141 172 Upper Missouri (The), 1865-1890 Richard Lowitt Author George W Norris and Agricultural NH 36 03 1955 173 182 Relief During the Twenties Hoover H Jordan Author Letter Books of Benjamin Harding NH 36 03 1955 183 204 (The) (Part I) Floyd Rodine Author County Agent and the Nebraska Farm NH 36 03 1955 205 212 Bureau James E Lawrence, President of the NH 36 04 1955 223 226 Nebraska State Historical Society, 1940 – 1955 John D Hicks Author Third American Revolution (The) NH 36 04 1955 227 246

Clifford L Lord Author Clio’s Cadres NH 36 04 1955 247 254

Hoover H Jordan Author Letter Books of Benjamin Harding NH 36 04 1955 255 280 (The) (Part II) James C Olson Author Nebraska State Historical Society NH 36 04 1955 281 302 (The) James C Malin Author Nebraska Question (The): A Ten-Year NH 35 01 1954 001 016 Record, 1844-1854 Ray H Mattison Author Army Post on the Northern Plains NH 35 01 1954 017 044 (The), 1865-1885 B F Sylvester Author Omaha’s Flood, 1952 In 1952, two years before the Pick- NH 35 01 1954 045 058 Sloan plan predicted that the Missouri River would settle down, eighty thousand square miles of deep winter snow in Montana and the Dakotas created an almost total runoff over a layer of ice. An unprecedented volume of water rolled toward the bottleneck at Omaha and Council Bluffs. This is the story of a successful effort to additionally fortify the levees and protect the population and structures of the two cities. Lloyd E McCann Author Henry H Straight – Educator NH 35 01 1954 059 072

Allan G Bogue Author Farmer Debtors in Pioneer Pebble NH 35 02 1954 081 114

118 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page E Widtsoe Shumway Author Winter Quarters, Nebraska, 1846- NH 35 02 1954 115 126 1848 D Paul Miller Author Jansen, Nebraska: A Story of NH 35 02 1954 127 136 Community Adjustment Larry Gara Editor Railroad Man’s View of Early NH 35 02 1954 137 146 Nebraska (A) Roy F Nichols Author Territories (The): Seedbeds of NH 35 03 1954 159 172 Democracy Paul W Glad Author Frederick West Lander and the Pacific NH 35 03 1954 173 192 Railroad Movement Thomas L Green Editor Notes on a Buffalo Hunt – the Diary NH 35 03 1954 193 222 of Mordecai Bartram D Paul Miller Author Peter Jansen: A Nebraska Pioneer NH 35 03 1954 223 230

James C Olson Author Thomas L Green NH 35 04 1954 241 242

Mari Sandoz Author Look of the West (The) – 1854 NH 35 04 1954 243 254

William J Petersen Author Steamboating on the Missouri River NH 35 04 1954 255 276

Josie McCulloch Author Memories of Omaha – A NH 35 04 1954 277 304 McCague Reminiscence James C Olson Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 35 04 1954 305 322 1954 (The) Thomas H Langevin Author Development of Multiple-Purpose NH 34 01 1953 001 021 water Planning by the Federal Government in the Missouri Basin Robert H Burns Author Newman Ranches (The): Pioneer NH 34 01 1953 022 032 Cattle Ranches of the West Donald F Danker Author C W Giddings and the Founding of NH 34 01 1953 033 054 Table Rock Asa T Hill: NH 34 02 1953 067 090 William D Strong Author Plainsman, Businessman, Scientist Waldo Wedel Author Pioneer Nebraska Archeologist J L Sellers Author And the Nebraska State Historical Soc Charles C Osborne Author Businessman, Friend Marvin F Kivett Author In the Field Harry B Robinson Author Pioneering on the Niobrara at NH 34 02 1953 091 114 Nellie B Hulshizer Author Meadville

119 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page David Lindsey Author George W Norris as a Student at NH 34 02 1953 115 122 Baldwin University Raymond J Pool Author Fifty Years on the Nebraska National NH 34 03 1953 139 180 Forest James C Malin Author Thomas Jefferson Sutherland, NH 34 03 1953 181 214 Nebraska Boomer Adam C Breckenridge Author Nebraska As a Pioneer in the Initiative NH 34 03 1953 215 224 and Referendum James E Lawrence Author Nebraska State Historical Society NH 34 03 1953 225 226 (The) and the Mississippi Valley Historical Association Walter Webb Author Story of Some Prairie Inventions NH 34 04 1953 229 244 Prescott (The) Albert B Corey Author Decalogue for State and Local NH 34 04 1953 245 255 Historical Societies (A) James L Sellers Author Nebraska – One Hundred Years NH 34 04 1953 256 266

John B White Author Sources of Nebraska History (The) NH 34 04 1953 267 274

Donald F Danker Author Columbus, a Territorial Town in the NH 34 04 1953 275 288 Platte Valley James C Olson Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 34 04 1953 289 310 1953 (The) Merrill J Mattes Author Fort Mitchell, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska NH 33 01 1952 001 034

John Francis McDermott Author De Smet’s Illustrator: Father Nicholas NH 33 01 1952 035 040 Point W H Hotze Author Pioneer School Days in Southwest NH 33 01 1952 041 053 Nebraska John Higham Editor Republican Estimate of Party NH 33 01 1952 054 057 Problems in 1892 (A) Paolo E Coletta Author William Jennings Bryan’s First NH 33 02 1952 071 094 Nebraska Years Robert F Chamberlain Author Febold Feboldson Legend (The) NH 33 02 1952 095 102

James C Olson Editor Diary of James Mason (The), Ohio to NH 33 02 1952 103 121 California Maurice C Latta Author Economic Development of Custer NH 33 03 1952 139 153 County Through World War I and the New Era (The), 1914-1929 120 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Robert W Richmond Author Developments Along the Overland NH 33 03 1952 154 179 Trail from the Missouri River to Fort Laramie, Before 1854 Anna Bemis Palmer Author Fire! Fire! Fire! NH 33 03 1952 180 185

John Francis McDermott Author Early Sketches of T R Peale NH 33 03 1952 186 189

Louise Pound Author John G Maher Hoaxes (The) NH 33 04 1952 203 220

Maurice C Latta Author Economic Effects of Drouth and NH 33 04 1952 221 236 Depression Upon Custer County (The), 1929-1942 Robert W Richmond Author Developments Along the Overland NH 33 04 1952 237 248 Trail from the Missouri River to Fort Laramie, Before 1854 James C Olson Author Nebraska State Historical Society NH 33 04 1952 249 269 (The) Walter Johnson Author Politics in the Midwest NH 32 01 1951 001 017

Robert C Farb Author Military Career of Robert W Furnas NH 32 01 1951 018 041 (The) Thomas M Davis Author Lines West! – The Story of George W NH 31 01 1951 025 047 Holdrege (I) C L Marquette Editor Plattsmouth Letters of Cyrus NH 32 01 1951 042 058 Woodman (the), 1869-1870 M L Wardell Author Democracy from Muzzle Loader to NH 31 01 1951 048 063 Atomic Bomb Louise Pound Author Olaf Bergstrom: Swedish Pioneer NH 31 01 1951 064 074

J R Johnson Author Second Nebraska’s “Battle” of NH 32 02 1951 077 093 Chickamauga (The) Mamie J Meredith Author Importance of Fences to the American NH 32 02 1951 094 107 Pioneer (The) Paul Henderson Author Story of Mud Springs (The) NH 32 02 1951 108 119

Charles E Hanson Jr Author Marking the Grave of Alexander NH 32 02 1951 120 129 Culbertson David L Hieb Editor 1850 Gold Rush letter from Fort NH 32 02 1951 130 139 Laramie by A C Sponsler (An), A Thayer County Pioneer

121 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page John E Pixton Author Charles G Dawes and the Nebraska NH 32 03 1951 155 185 Freight Rate Fight Robert C Farb Author Robert W Furnas as Omaha Indian NH 32 03 1951 186 203 Agent, 1864-1866 (I) Wm H Smith Author Fifty Years a Country Publisher: A NH 32 03 1951 204 216 Reminiscence Walter Kiener Editor P A Rydberg’s “Robert of a Botanical NH 32 03 1951 217 239 Exploration, Made in Western Nebraska in the Summer of 1891, as a Special Agent of the Department of Agriculture” Edgar Z Palmer Author Correctness of the 1890 Census of NH 32 04 1951 259 267 Population for Nebraska Cities (The) Robert C Farb Author Robert W Furnas as Omaha Indian NH 32 04 1951 268 283 Agent 1864-1866 (II) James C Olson Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 32 04 1951 284 305 1951 (The) Walter Kiener Editor P A Rydberg’s “Report of a Botanical NH 32 04 1951 306 321 exploration, Made in Western Nebraska in the Summer of 1891, as a Special Agent of the Department of Agriculture” (II) Paolo E Coletta Author Youth of William Jennings Bryan NH 31 01 1950 001 024 (The) – Beginnings of a Christian Statesman J R Johnson Author William Jennings Bryan, The Soldier NH 31 02 1950 095 106

Thomas M Davis Author Lines West! – The Story of George W NH 31 02 1950 107 125 Holdrege (II) Harry B Robinson Author William H Jackson Memorial Wing at NH 31 02 1950 126 146 Scotts Bluff National Monument (The) P S Heaton Author Old Lone Tree (The) NH 31 02 1950 147 152

Edward Dale Author Frontier Literary Society (The) NH 31 03 1950 167 182 Everett Paolo E Coletta Author William Jennings Bryan and the NH 31 03 1950 183 203 Nebraska Senatorial Election of 1893 Thomas M Davis Author Lines West! – The Story of George W NH 31 03 1950 204 225 Holdrege (III) 122 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Thomas H Le Duc Author Ecological Interpretation of NH 31 03 1950 226 233 Grasslands History (An) Norbert R Mahnken Author William Jennings Bryan in Oklahoma NH 31 04 1950 247 274

Delores Gunnerson Author E E Blackman: Pioneer Nebraska NH 31 04 1950 275 282 Archeologist E P H Gempel Author Early Nebraska Sawmill (An) NH 31 04 1950 283 291

James C Olson Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 31 04 1950 292 308 1950 (The) Jay Monaghan Author Handcarts on the Overland Trail NH 30 01 1949 003 018

George O Virtue Author Marxian Interpretation of the Civil NH 30 01 1949 019 049 War Agnes Horton Author Nebraska’s Agricultural-College Land NH 30 01 1949 050 076 Grant Merrill J Mattes Author Robidoux’s Trading Post at “Scott’s NH 30 02 1949 095 138 Bluffs,” and the California Gold Rush J R Johnson Author Sage of the First Nebraska in the NH 30 02 1949 139 162 Philippines (The) E Bryant Phillips Author Interurban Projects in Nebraska NH 30 02 1949 163 182

Norbert R Mahnken Author Sidney-Black Hills Trail (The) NH 30 03 1949 203 225

C Clyde Jones Author Survey of the Agricultural NH 30 03 1949 226 256 Development Program of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad (A) E Bryant Phillips Author Interurban Projects In and Around NH 30 03 1949 257 285 Omaha Louise Pound Author Nebraska’s Antoine Barada Again NH 30 03 1949 286 294

Thomas M Davis Author Building the Burlington Through NH 30 04 1949 317 347 Nebraska – A Summary View Edgar Bruce Wesley Author Life at Fort Atkinson NH 30 04 1949 348 358

James C Olson Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 30 04 1949 359 375 1949 (The) Merrill J Mattes Author Olaf T Hagen NH 30 04 1949 376 377

Levette J Davidson Author Folklore As a Supplement to Western NH 29 01 1948 003 015 History 123 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page E Bryant Phillips Author Horse Car Days and Ways in NH 29 01 1948 016 032 Nebraska Charles T Duncan Author Fremont in California: Hero or NH 29 01 1948 033 054 Mountebank? Earl G Curtis Author John Milton Thayer (III-IV) NH 29 01 1948 055 068

Edward Dale Author Wood and Water: Twin Problems of NH 29 02 1948 087 104 Everett the Prairie Plains J R Johnson Author Nebraska’s “Rough Riders” in the NH 29 02 1948 105 112 Spanish-American War Helen Siampos Author Early Education in Nebraska NH 29 02 1948 113 133

Earl G Curtis Author John Milton Thayer (V-VII) NH 29 02 1948 134 150

Lyle E Mantor Author Fort Kearny and the Westward NH 29 03 1948 175 207 Movement James C Olson Editor From Nebraska City to Montana, NH 29 03 1948 208 237 1866: The Diary of Thomas Alfred Creigh James J Blake Author Brownville, Fort Kearney and Pacific NH 29 03 1948 238 272 Railroad (The) Louise Pound Author Nebraska Cave Lore NH 29 04 1948 299 323

Lyle E Mantor Author Stage Coach and Freighter Days at NH 29 04 1948 324 338 Fort Kearny N C Abbott Author That Cass County Court House – An NH 29 04 1948 339 350 Informal History James C Olson Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 29 04 1948 351 370 1948 (The) Louise Pound Author Old Nebraska Folk Customs NH 28 01 1947 003 031

Waldo R Wedel Author Missouri Basin Archeological Survey NH 28 01 1947 032 040 (The) W D Aeschbacher Author Development of Cattle Raising in the NH 28 01 1947 041 064 Sandhills Norbert R Mahnken Author Ogallala – Nebraska’s Cowboy NH 28 02 1947 085 109 Capital Ray H Mattison Author Burlington Tax Controversy in NH 28 02 1947 110 131 Nebraska Over the Federal Land Grants

124 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Everett N Dick Author Problems of the Post Frontier Prairie NH 28 02 1947 132 143 City as Portrayed by Lincoln, Nebraska, 1880-1890 Merrill J Mattes Author Historic Sites in Missouri Valley NH 28 03 1947 161 175 Reservoir Areas Leroy W Hagerty Author Indian Raids Along the Platte and NH 28 03 1947 176 186 Little Blue Rivers, 1864-1865 Walker D Wyman Editor Reminiscences of a Nebraska Pioneer NH 28 03 1947 187 195 of the ‘70’s Delores Gunnerson Author Joe Gunnerson – Museum Builder NH 28 03 1947 196 199

Earl G Curtis Author John Milton Thayer NH 28 04 1947 225 238

Leroy W Hagerty Author Indian Raids Along the Platte and NH 28 04 1947 239 260 Little Blue Rivers, 1864-1865 (III) James C Olson Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 28 04 1947 261 271 1947 William Stolley Author History of the First Settlement of Hall Special Issue – Issued without NH 27 -- 1946 001 090 Harry Weingart Translator County, Nebraska Volume Numbering. See “A History of Nebraska History” N C Abbott Author Silas A Holcomb (Part Two) NH 27 01 1946 003 017

Ruth K Nuermberger Author Letters from Pioneer Nebraska by NH 27 01 1946 018 047 Edward R Harden Annie L Miller Author Social Life of Pioneer Lincoln NH 27 01 1946 048 058

George W Barnes Author Pioneer Preacher – An Autobiography NH 27 02 1946 071 091

Walker D Wyman Author Missouri River Steamboatin’ NH 27 02 1946 092 103

James C Olson Author Army Air Forces Historical Program NH 27 02 1946 104 112 (The), With Special Reference to the Pacific Ocean Areas William H Hotze Author Cambridge NH 27 02 1946 113 117

James L Sellers Editor Diary of Dr Joseph A Paxson, NH 27 03 1946 143 204 Physician to the Winnebago Indians, 1869-1870 (Part I) W D Aeschbacher Author Development of the Sandhill Lake NH 27 03 1946 205 221 Country

125 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page J H Sweet Author Old Fort Kearny NH 27 04 1946 233 243

James L Sellers Editor Diary of Dr Joseph A Paxson, NH 27 04 1946 244 275 Physician to the Winnebago Indians, 1869-1870 (Part II) James C Olson Author Nebraska State Historical Society in NH 27 04 1946 276 283 1946 (The) Norbert R Mahnken Author Early Nebraska Markets for Texas NH 26 01 1945 003 025 Cattle (Part I) Elaine Eastman Author Ghost Dance War and Wounded Knee NH 26 01 1945 026 042 Goodale Massacre of 1890-91 (The) Charles Chapin Author Removal of Pawnee and Peace with NH 26 01 1945 043 048 their Neighbors Nebraska’s Fifth Unicameral NH 26 01 1945 049 051

A B Wood NH 26 01 1945 052 053

Edward Dale Author Culture on the American Frontier NH 26 02 1945 075 090 Everett Norbert R Mahnken Author Early Nebraska Markets for Texas NH 26 02 1945 091 103 Cattle, Part II Myrtle D Berry Author Local Nebraska History – A NH 26 02 1945 104 115 Bibliography Merrill J Mattes Author Hiram Scott, Fur Trader NH 26 03 1945 127 162

Wardner G Scott Author Nebraska Public Highways NH 26 03 1945 163 170

N C Abbott Author Silas A Holcomb NH 26 04 1945 187 200

Edgar N Johnson Author American Occupation of Austria NH 26 04 1945 201 210

LeRoy R Hafen Author Work of a State Historical Society NH 26 04 1945 211 220

William R Milner Author Development of Aviation and Air NH 26 04 1945 221 225 Facilities in Nebraska Arthur J Weaver NH 26 04 1945 226 227

Tennyson Alfred Author Selection from “Locksley Hall” Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: NH 25 01 1944 005 005 Heroes, Commanders, Correspondents, Commentators: Their Stories: Part I 126 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Mary McVicker Author “All the World’s a Stage” Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: NH 25 01 1944 007 009 Heroes, Commanders, Correspondents, Commentators: Their Stories: Part I A E Sheldon Author “Where the Flag Still Floats” Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: NH 25 01 1944 009 009 From Poem by A E Sheldon Heroes, Commanders, Correspondents, Commentators: Their Stories: Part I Nebraska’s Heroes: Their Deeds of Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: NH 25 01 1944 011 036 Valor Heroes, Commanders, Correspondents, Commentators: Their Stories: Part I Nebraska’a Heroes: Their Letters Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: NH 25 01 1944 037 042 Home Heroes, Commanders, Correspondents, Commentators: Their Stories: Part I Dwight Griswold Author Comment by Nebraska’s Governor Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: NH 25 01 1944 042 044 Heroes, Commanders, Correspondents, Commentators: Their Stories: Part I Nebraskans in Command: Maj Gen Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: NH 25 01 1944 044 051 Charles Corlett of Burchard; Maj Gen Heroes, Commanders, Harry Schmidt of Holdrege; Maj Gen Correspondents, Commentators: Their Herman F Kramer of Lincoln Stories: Part I Beginnings of Nebraska Selective Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: NH 25 01 1944 052 055 Service (The) Heroes, Commanders, Correspondents, Commentators: Their Stories: Part I Nebraska’s War Correspondents: Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: NH 25 01 1944 055 069 Charles Arnot, Grant Parr, Walter G Heroes, Commanders, Rundle, William McGaffin, Don Correspondents, Commentators: Their Hollenbeck Stories: Part I War Correspondents in Person: The Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: NH 25 01 1944 069 072 McGaffins and the Press; Hollenbeck, Heroes, Commanders, Parr, Rundle, Arnot Correspondents, Commentators: Their Stories: Part I Addison E Sheldon Author “Where Are We Going?” From Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 077 077 address by Addison E Sheldon II: Her Men and Women, Service Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton

127 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Evelyn Sharp, Pilot from Ord Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 078 081 II: Her Men and Women, Service Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Nebraska Heroes: Their Deeds of Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 082 086 Valor – II II: Her Men and Women, Service Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Murlin Spencer Author “Nebraskans Everywhere” Murlin Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 087 110 Spencer, to Associated Press II: Her Men and Women, Service Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton David Lawrence Author Nebraska Chaplain on the Cassino Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 111 112 Front – Reprint from column by II: Her Men and Women, Service David Lawrence Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Tillman Durdin Author Toughest Road in the World – Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 113 117 Tillman Durdin, in New York Times II: Her Men and Women, Service Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Jean Hilton Author Nebraska Women in the War – With Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 118 121 the Armed Forces: What It Means to II: Her Men and Women, Service be a SPAR Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Katherine P McCready Author Nebraska Women in the War – With Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 122 123 the Armed Forces: The Women II: Her Men and Women, Service Marines Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Daisy C Hinman Author Nebraska Women in the War – In the Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 124 128 Service Clubs: The North Platte II: Her Men and Women, Service Canteen Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Eunice W Stabler Author Nebraska Women in the War – In the Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 128 128 Service Clubs: Service Clubs of the II: Her Men and Women, Service Omaha Tribe Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Francis Drake Author Story of Lightning P-38 (The), in Air Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 129 131 Vivian News II: Her Men and Women, Service Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton

128 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Song of the Airmen – Selection from Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 131 131 “A Guy Named Joe” II: Her Men and Women, Service Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Nebraska’s War Correspondents – II: Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 132 145 Dougald Werner, Robert Bellaire, II: Her Men and Women, Service Elmont Waite, William H Lawrence Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton War Correspondents in Person Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 146 147 II: Her Men and Women, Service Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton N C Abbott Author Henry M Eaton Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 148 148 II: Her Men and Women, Service Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Annual Meeting of 1944 Special Issue: Nebraskans at War: Part NH 25 02 1944 149 150 II: Her Men and Women, Service Clubs – Correspondents; The Annual Meeting; Henry M Eaton Edward Dale Author Social Homesteader (The) NH 25 03 1944 155 171 Everett Abner K Chestem Author Conservation of Nebraska’s NH 25 03 1944 172 178 Agricultural Resources Edward Dale Author Blind NH 25 03 1944 179 179 Everett Ken R Keller Author This Business of Induction NH 25 03 1944 180 188

Governor Griswold’s Radio Address NH 25 03 1944 189 190

Annual Meeting (The) NH 25 03 1944 191 209

Local Historical Societies NH 25 03 1944 210 211

Minnie Latta Ladd Author William Story Latta NH 25 04 1944 223 234

Glenn W Gray Author Year of Battles – 1944 NH 25 04 1944 235 256

C A Sorenson Author Rural Electrification NH 25 04 1944 257 270

129 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Ora A Clement Author Native Sons and Daughters of NH 25 04 1944 271 278 Nebraska Historical Notes and News NH 25 04 1944 279 286

United Nations Honor Flag NH 25 04 1944 287 288

Flag of Peace “The” NH 24 01 1943 001 001

“Thy Kingdom” NH 24 01 1943 005 005

Frank D Eager Author World Peace Army (A) NH 24 01 1943 007 012

Emma Pospisil Author Teacher of the Willow Creek School NH 24 01 1943 013 024 (A) T A Kiesselbach Author Soybeans in Nebraska NH 24 01 1943 025 035

Addison E Sheldon Author Editor’s Table: The Flag; The NH 24 01 1943 036 039 American Constitution at Work; Joseph Schafer, Student of Agriculture Milo M Quaife Flag of the United States (The) – NH 24 01 1943 040 041 Digest from work by Dr Milo M Quaife Old Oregon Trail (The) – Centennial NH 24 01 1943 043 043 Program “Some People Grow” NH 24 01 1943 043 043

Our Historical Exchanges (Abstracts) NH 24 01 1943 045 056

Mari Sandoz Author Some of the Tall Tales of Nebraska NH 24 01 1943 057 058

F J Coil Author Falling Horseback Into a Well NH 24 01 1943 059 060

Myrtle D Berry Author War Posters from Britain NH 24 01 1943 061 061

Edmund Burke Author From Speech on Conciliation with the NH 24 02 1943 069 070 Colonies Merrill J Mattes Author History of Old Fort Mitchell (A) NH 24 02 1943 071 083

Ruth Ann Sheldon Author History of Nehawka (The) Stories of Nebraska Communities: NH 24 02 1943 084 094 Prize Essays of 1941 Contest, Native Sons and Daughters 130 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Hazel Jimerson Author Story of Peru (The) Stories of Nebraska Communities: NH 24 02 1943 095 103 Hayward Prize Essays of 1941 Contest, Native Sons and Daughters Richard W Thornton Author Boom Town (Kearney) Stories of Nebraska Communities: NH 24 02 1943 104 112 Prize Essays of 1941 Contest, Native Sons and Daughters Merrill J Mattes, Custodian of NH 24 02 1943 113 114 Nebraska Treasure Addison E Sheldon Author The Editor’s Table: American Pioneer NH 24 02 1943 115 120 Trails Meetings in Nebraska; A Bureaucratic Institution We All Approve; What We Are Fighting For; Emerson R Purcell; Hail Insurance in Nebraska H G Wells Author Shall We Have a World Language? NH 24 02 1943 121 122 Digest of article by H G Wells World Language for Post-War NH 24 02 1943 123 123 Collaboration (A) – From United Press Questions and Answers on the NH 24 02 1943 124 125 American Flag Our Historical Exchanges (Abstracts) NH 24 02 1943 126 130

Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting (Part I) Address of the Superintendent; NH 24 03 1943 143 208 Nebraska: Future Aviation Center; Manpower and Womanpower for National Defense; Italy in a Free World; War Work With a Future; Red Cross Home Service; Nebraska and Nebraskans in War: A Symposium; Fair Nebraska [Song by Edna Bullock]; Letter on the Mullen Portrait; Annual Reports Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting (Part II) Tributes to Addison E Sheldon [Part NH 24 04 1943 215 288 I]; Addresses [Part II]: Winning of the War to Preserve Nebraska History; Ninety Years of Nebraska Settlement; Battle Hymn of Nebraska [Song]; What the Historical Building Should Do for Nebraska; War Livestock Problem in Nebraska; Army 131 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Specialized Training Program; World War I; Music of Pioneer Days [Part VI]; Early Music of Brownville; Correspondence on Musical History; Editor’s Table; Historical Exchanges Miriam Carleton- Author Music of The Pioneer Days in This is the seven of a series of articles, NH 24 04 1943 267 276 Stanley Squires Nebraska [Part Seven] a compiled record of the early musical life of the state of Nebraska, after white settlers began to settle here. Written by the first DAR state chairman for the Advancement of American Music, it presents information from the DAR and other sources, including reminiscences from early white settlers. Sallie L Furnas Author Early Music of Brownville – 1879- The author recalls various musical NH 24 04 1943 277 281 1892 events beginning in 1879 and 1880 with light operas given in the Marsh Opera House continuing through 1942, with a discussion of the Presbyterian, Episcopal and Methodist churches’ music, as well as individual contributions to the “music scene” in early Brownville history. Addison E Sheldon Author Peace Plan That Lost Fifty Thousand NH 23 01 1942 005 010 Dollars (The) Prize-Winning Plan (The): NH 23 01 1942 011 015 Announcement of Award Edward W Bok Author “The American Peace Award” NH 23 01 1942 016 018 (Preface by) Question to be Voted Upon (The) – NH 23 01 1942 019 022 Statement of Policy Committee Charles H Levermore Author Peace Plan That Won Fifty Thousand NH 23 01 1942 023 032 Dollars (The) Dwight Griswold Author Plans for World Peace NH 23 01 1942 033 034

Bayard H Paine Author Nebraska View of World Peace Plans NH 23 01 1942 035 040 (A) Major Fenner and the Clemenceau NH 23 01 1942 041 044 Cannon – Lula Mae Coe

132 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Addison E Sheldon Author Editor’s Table (The): A Nebraska NH 23 01 1942 045 052 Contribution to Peace; Governor Griswold; A Memory Train Through Nebraska; Fifty Years in Custer County; Additions to Historical Library Addison E Sheldon Author Superintendent’s Annual Address NH 23 01 1942 053 059

Annual Reports for 1942 NH 23 01 1942 060 100

Frank Phillips Author Petroleum in the Present World Crisis NH 23 02 1942 105 113 [Author - President Phillips Petroleum Company] E C Reed Author Nebraska as a Petroleum Producer, NH 23 02 1942 114 114 Excerpts from Report [Author - Assistant State Geologist] World-Wide Refueling for Cargo NH 23 02 1942 115 116 Planes [from Associated Press] Daniel Garber Author Value and Service of the Nebraska NH 23 02 1942 117 119 State Historical Society (The) Bryan S Stoffer Author Education for Democracy NH 23 02 1942 120 122

Sallie L Furnas Author My Grandfather, Robert W Furnas NH 23 02 1942 123 127

Miriam Carleston- Author Music of Pioneer Days in Nebraska This is the fifth of a series of articles, NH 23 02 1942 128 137 Stanley Squires [Part Five] a compiled record of the early musical life of the state of Nebraska, after white settlers began to settle here. Written by the first DAR state chairman for the Advancement of American Music, it presents information from the DAR and other sources, including reminiscences from early white settlers. Addison E Sheldon Author Editor’s Table (The): Frank Phillips, NH 23 02 1942 138 157 Nebraska Native Son; “Ponca Publicity”, Chapters in Nebraska History; Legislative Bills 147 and 425; Catching Up with the Calendar; Henry Rohwer is Gone; Program for Historical Societies; The Wright 133 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Brothers Win; A Mule-Drawn Museum; Utah’s Governor Sets an Example; Nebraska’s Pens in Wartime; Those Non-Existent Liberty Ships; Adjutant Patterson on the Fenner Cannon; Record of Frank A Bartling; Helen May Martin. To a Woman Who Made a Beautiful Garden – Selected Writings of Mari Sandoz; The Letter Basket “All the Darkness in the World” NH 23 03 1942 169 170 [From a Church Manual] Paul E Boslaugh Author Great North Platte Dam (The), Power NH 23 03 1942 171 188 and Irrigation Project Frank E Edgerton Author Romance of Corn (The) NH 23 03 1942 189 194

Loulie Ayer Beall Author Webster County School (A) NH 23 03 1942 195 204

Hervey S Robinson Author School Child in the Blizzard of ’88 NH 23 03 1942 205 209 (A) Anna Bemis Cutler Author First School at Sutton (The) NH 23 03 1942 210 218

Addison E Sheldon Author Editor’s Table (The): Land and NH 23 03 1942 219 231 Livestock, Water and Power; Edgerton on Hybrid Corn; Boslaugh on Irrigation; Signing the School Endowment and Historical Building Bills; Being a War President; Early Nebraska Historical Documents; Captain Jack Wilson; Lieutenant Walker; New York’s Tribute to Jackson and Meeker; Proposed Jackson Memorial at Scottsbluff; “Make America Live for Americans”; “Sheldon versus De Mille”; The Place of Fact in Fiction Addison E Sheldon Author Bright Eyes – Poem by Addison E NH 23 03 1942 236 236 Sheldon Ideal of Henry George (The) –From NH 23 04 1942 241 242 Progress and Poverty

134 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Bayard H Paine Author Future of Nebraska (The) NH 23 04 1942 243 258

John M Phillips Author Nebraska’s Greatest Contribution to NH 23 04 1942 259 260 the World Frank J Munday Author Pike-Pawnee village Site (the) NH 23 04 1942 261 262

Theo Lowe Jr Author County Historical Societies in NH 23 04 1942 263 264 Nebraska Marvin Hurley Author National Defense and Business NH 23 04 1942 265 266

Miriam Carleston- Author Music of Pioneer Days in Nebraska This is the sixth of a series of articles, NH 23 04 1942 267 278 Stanley Squires [Part Six] a compiled record of the early musical life of the state of Nebraska, after white settlers began to settle here. Written by the first DAR state chairman for the Advancement of American Music, it presents information from the DAR and other sources, including reminiscences from early white settlers. Martha M Turner Author In Search of Historic Pictures NH 23 04 1942 279 284

Addison E Sheldon Author Editor’s Table (The): Wendell Willkie NH 23 04 1942 285 301 and “One World”; A Collection of Rare Early Nebraska Newspapers; C A Beach, Veteran of Railway Mail Service; The Letter Basket; Our Exchanges Oregon Plan for the Old Trail NH 23 04 1942 302 303 Centennial (The) W H Jackson Author Excerpts from W H Jackson NH 23 04 1942 304 306 Autobiography Thurman A Smith Author Winter Night – Poem by Thurman A NH 23 04 1942 308 308 Smith E A Brininstool Author Savagery and Civilization Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 005 006

Robert G Simmons Author Value of Memorials (The) Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 007 008

Gutzon Borglum Author Memorials to the Sioux Indians Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 009 014

135 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page E P Wilson Author Story of the Oglala and Brule Sioux in Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 015 034 the Pine Ridge Country in the Middle Seventies (The) George A Beecher Author Why Remember the Indian? Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 035 038

Addison E Sheldon Author Memorial to the Sioux Nation (A) Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 039 044

Addison E Sheldon Author After Wounded Knee: A Recollection Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 045 046

Gutzon Borglum Author People’s Memorials, and Their Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 047 052 Monuments Loraine Ferris Editor They Who Create: Stories of the Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 053 059 Borglums Truth in Art Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 060 062

Harry B Coffee Author Congressman Commends Sioux Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 063 064 Memorial Addison E Sheldon Author Shallenberger and Massacre Canyon Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 065 066 Monument Dwight Griswold Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 067 067

James H Cook Author Sioux Grievances at Pine Ridge Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 068 072 Agency James H Cook Author Letter from James H Cook Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 073 075

Addison E Sheldon Author Major Allen and his “Ode to a Mule” Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 076 076

Charles W Allen Author Red Cloud and the U S Flag Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 077 088

Addison E Sheldon Author Tangle Hair’s Raid – Poem by Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 089 092 Addison E Sheldon (Mrs) Gutzon Borglum Author Sioux Indian Memorials Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 093 095

Joseph K Dixon Author Last Great Indian Council (The) Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 096 100

Gutzon Borglum Author Dream of Sculptured Mountains (A) Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 101 101

United America (A) – A Free World Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 102 102

Indian Rule and the Golden Rule Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 103 132

136 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Frank C Goings Author Letter from Judge Frank C Goings of Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 133 134 Pine Ridge Review of “McGillicuddy: Agent” Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 135 136

Charles W Allen Author Letter from Major Charles W Allen Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 137 138

Meeting of the Sioux Memorial Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 140 140 Association F M Poast Author Documentation for “The Oglala and Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 141 142 Brule Sioux” Notes on “A Century of Dishonor” Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 143 143 and Bibliography H S Robinson Author Indians in the Pine Ridge Country: Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 144 146 Bibliography Arthur Edward Fuller: Draftsman; Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 22 01 1941 147 147 Engineer Victory for the Sioux [Associated NH 22 01 1941 148 148 Press Despatch {sic}] Addison E Sheldon Author Archeological Number State Survey – Special Issue: Introduction; Setting; NH 22 02 1941 155 213 A T Hill Author Chase County: Report of Explorations Site; Occupancy of the Region; George Metcalf Author Distribution; Extent and Method of Excavation; Features; Artifacts; Work in Stone; Pecked and Polished Stone; Work in Bone and Antler; Work in Shell; Objects of Metal; Leather; Food Stuffs and Animal Remains; Burials; Dendrochronological Evidence; Culture Determinants; Summary and Conclusions; Literature Cited Wordsworth Author Intimations of Immortality NH 22 03 1941 231 232

Addison E Sheldon Author Superintendent’s Annual Address: NH 22 03 1941 233 239 1941 Addison E Sheldon Author Nebraska Historical Society Building NH 22 03 1941 240 242 (A) Madeleine Brown Author Pioneers (The): A True Story NH 22 03 1941 243 266 Packard Miriam Carleston- Author Music of Pioneer Days in Nebraska This is the Fourth of a series of NH 22 03 1941 267 270 Stanley Squires [Part Four] articles, a compiled record of the early musical life of the state of Nebraska,

137 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page after white settlers began to settle here. Written by the first DAR state chairman for the Advancement of American Music, it presents information from the DAR and other sources, including reminiscences from early white settlers. George H Aller Author Early History of Music at Crete, This article describes the history of NH 22 03 1941 271 274 Nebraska (The) music beginning at the town’s organization in 1871, much of it surrounding the Music Department at Doane College. David M Johnston Author Nebraska’s First Territorial NH 22 03 1941 275 283 Legislature Addison E Sheldon Author Editor’s Table (The): The Historical NH 22 04 1941 307 318 Society’s War Service; Nebraska on the War Front; Seventy-Five Years; War Service Publications; A Soldier of the Civil War and the Plains Frontier; An Acknowledgment; The Cover for this Issue; The Lincoln Signature; orbits of Freedom – R Gerald McMurtry The Historical Catalogue: Know NH 22 04 1941 319 402 Nebraska Better; Nebraska State Historical Society; Publications of the Historical Society; Contents of the Publications; Maps, Graphs and Illustrations in the Publications; Other Important Works on Nebraska History; Supplemental Works on Nebraska History Addison E Sheldon Author 1940 – Poem by Addison E Sheldon NH 21 01 1940 005 006

Fred G Hawxby Author Trail-Making Urge (The) NH 21 01 1940 007 012

Arthur J Denney Author Pony Express Trail (The): Its NH 21 01 1940 013 017 Dramatic Story Addison E Sheldon Author An Inscription –Poem by Addison E NH 21 01 1940 018 018 Sheldon

138 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Addison E Sheldon Author Editor’s Table (The): Arthur F NH 21 01 1940 019 021 Mullen: Some Personal Recollections; The Nebraska Line of Defense; Edgar Howard (Mrs) C W Pursell Author Childhood Memories of My Father’s NH 21 01 1940 022 022 Experiences Oden Gilmore Author Map Study of Nebraska Trails (A) NH 21 01 1940 023 024

Herbert L Cushing Author Pony Express Trail (The): Its NH 21 01 1940 025 026 Markings in Nebraska Henry M Eaton Author Presentation of Historical Gavel NH 21 01 1940 027 027

James E Lawrence Author Needed: A Historical Building NH 21 01 1940 028 028

W H Smith Author History’s Place in the Nebraska NH 21 01 1940 029 029 Country Press J H Ainlay Author State History as an Advertising Asset NH 21 01 1940 030 030

John W Yeager Author History as Seen from the District NH 21 01 1940 031 031 Bench J B Douglas Author Restoration of Nebraska Wild Life NH 21 01 1940 032 033

C R Lichte Author Inspirations of Nebraska History NH 21 01 1940 034 034 (The) Esther Kolterman- Author My Pierce County History NH 21 01 1940 035 036 Hansen (Mrs) Phil R Easterday Author What I Like About Nebraska NH 21 01 1940 037 037

Guy N Henninger Author Presentation of Parachute from NH 21 01 1940 038 038 Balloon “Explorer”—Brigadier- General Guy N Henninger (Mrs) Jiles W Haney Author DAR Rescue of Early Lancaster NH 21 01 1940 043 045 County Records (The) Louise W Mears, F R S NH 21 01 1940 046 046

What Can and Should the Native Sons NH 21 01 1940 047 051 and Daughters of Nebraska Do for Nebraska? [Toasts at Historical Luncheon by Carol White Mortensen, Emil G Stolley, Nemaha Clark Bock, W A Rosene, Robert Whelan, Daisy D 139 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Whittemore-Maurer]

Addison E Sheldon Author Howard of Flats – Verse and Photo NH 21 01 1940 052 052

O J Burckhardt Author What is the Difference? – Verses NH 21 01 1940 063 063

Idle Land Crops Nebraska Writers’ Project, WPA NH 21 01 1940 064 064

John Milton Author Selections from John Milton NH 21 02 1940 069 069

Loraine Ferris Author Helen May Martin –Her Book of Life NH 21 02 1940 071 081

Margaret M Gehrke Author This is Grief [Poem] NH 21 02 1940 082 082

Miriam Carleton- Author Music of the Pioneer Days in This is the third of a series of articles, NH 21 02 1940 083 092 Stanley Squires Nebraska [Part Three] a compiled record of the early musical life of the state of Nebraska, after white settlers began to settle here. Written by the first DAR state chairman for the Advancement of American Music, it presents information from the DAR and other sources, including reminiscences from early white settlers. Wayne Overturf Author John Brown’s Cabin at Nebraska City NH 21 02 1940 093 100

Irene Scott Author Day of a Farmer’s Wife (The) NH 21 02 1940 101 102 Hamilton Addison E Sheldon Author Editor’s Table (The): Henry Allen NH 21 02 1940 103 115 Brainerd; Old 49 Precinct; Sioux Indian Literature; History in the Nebraska Press; The Kansas Historical Society; The Kansas Historical Quarterly; Historical Society Publications; The Letter Basket Lorraine Ferris Editor Bank Book and Early Nebraska NH 21 02 1940 116 117 History (A) Tales of Indian Life NH 21 02 1940 125 126

Martha M Turner Author History in Nebraska Newspapers NH 21 02 1940 127 135

140 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Tourist Travel Over Pioneer Trails NH 21 02 1940 136 136

A T Hill Author Part One: Woodland-Like Special Issue: Archeological Number NH 21 03 1940 143 191 Marvin Kivett Author Manifestations in Nebraska: Vy-1 State Survey of 1939 A T Hill Author Part Two: Notes Concerning Special Issue: Archeological Number NH 21 03 1940 192 241 Marvin Kivett Author Additional Woodland Remains in State Survey of 1939 Nebraska E A Brininstool Author Savagery and Civilization – From Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 249 250 monograph on Dull Knife Robert G Simmons Author Value of Memorials (The) Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 251 252

Gutzon Borglum Author Memorials to the Sioux Indians Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 253 258

E P Wilson Author Story of the Oglala and Brule Sioux in Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 259 274 the Pine Ridge Country of Northwest Nebraska in the Middle Seventies Addison E Sheldon Author Shallenberger and the Massacre Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 275 276 Canyon Monument George A Beecher Author Why Remember the Indians? Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 277 280

Addison E Sheldon Author Memorial to the Sioux Nations (A) Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 281 286

Gutzon Borglum Author People’s Memorials – and Their Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 287 290 Monuments Indian Tribe in Granite Was the Next Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 291 291 Plan of Gutzon Borglum Major Charles W Allen and his “Ode Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 292 292 to a Mule” Red Cloud and the U S Flag – Story Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 293 304 of an Eye Witness as told by Major Charles W Allen They Who Create – Stories of the Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 305 311 Borglums, A Compilation by Lorraine Ferris Truth in Art – Excerpts from the Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 312 312 works of Louis Sullivan, Claude Bragdon Special Pine Ridge Edition Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 313 313

Major Allen No Longer on the Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 314 314 Warpath – A Letter 141 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Objects of Incorporation of the Sioux Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 316 316 Memorial Association Addison E Sheldon Author McGillicuddy: Agent – Review Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 317 318

Florence M Poast Author Documentation for the Story of the Special Issue: Sioux Memorial Issue NH 21 04 1940 319 319 Oglala and Brule Sioux Excavations: Special Issue: Archeological Number, NH 20 02 1939 Site Do 4 a State Survey of 1938 098 100 Site Do 4 b 101 106 Site W 1 107 110 Site Do 2 111 118 Site Do 3 119 120 Site W 3 120 121 Site W 2 122 123 Site W 4 123 126 Site W 6 and W 5 127 130 Site Bt 1 131 132 Site Bt 2 133 136 Site T 1 137 138 Site T 2 138 138

Leonard Stromberg Author Ice Is Breaking (The) NH 20 01 1939 005 006 Selected William Whithorn Author Charles Wesley Wells Nebraska’s Unsung Heroes (Prize NH 20 01 1939 007 016 (Mrs) Stories of 1939) Thomas P Beall Author John Longnecker Nebraska’s Unsung Heroes (Prize NH 20 01 1939 017 026 Stories of 1939) Irene Scott Author Jacob Adriance Nebraska’s Unsung Heroes (Prize NH 20 01 1939 027 037 Hamilton Stories of 1939) Miriam Carleton- Author Music of Pioneer Days in Nebraska This is the first of a series of articles, a NH 20 01 1939 038 050 Stanley Squires [Part One] compiled record of the early musical life of the state of Nebraska, after white settlers began to settle here. Written by the first DAR state chairman for the Advancement of American Music, it presents information from the DAR and other sources, including reminiscences from early white settlers. R Harold Marks Author American Imprints Inventory in NH 20 01 1939 051 058 Nebraska (The) 142 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Thurman A Smith Author Trail Blazer of North Loup Valley George W McAnulty NH 20 01 1939 065 066 (The) Esther Hansen Author Writing a County History Essay by President of Pierce County NH 20 01 1939 067 069 Kolterman Historical Society Martha M Turner Author History in Nebraska Newspapers NH 20 01 1939 080 084

Addison E Sheldon Author Foreword Special Issue: Archeological Number, NH 20 02 1939 091 094 State Survey of 1938 Paul Cooper Author Report of Explorations Special Issue: Archeological Number, NH 20 02 1939 095 096 State Survey of 1938 Geography of the Field Special Issue: Archeological Number, NH 20 02 1939 097 097 State Survey of 1938 Conclusion Special Issue: Archeological Number, NH 20 02 1939 147 151 State Survey of 1938 Mari Sandoz Author Nebraska Vignettes NH 20 03 1939 157 158

Addison E Sheldon Author Nebraskans I have Known: Samuel NH 20 03 1939 159 168 Clay Bassett Miriam Carleton- Author Music of Pioneer Days in Nebraska This is the second of a series of NH 20 03 1939 169 171 Stanley Squires [Part Two] articles, a compiled record of the early musical life of the state of Nebraska, after white settlers began to settle here. Written by the first DAR state chairman for the Advancement of American Music, it presents information from the DAR and other sources, including reminiscences from early white settlers. Mark M Shaw Author Greater Nebraskan (The) NH 20 03 1939 172 172

T F A Williams Author Lincoln Folks in London World-War NH 20 03 1939 173 174 Clouds John F Zeilinger Author Dick Shinn’s Ferry NH 20 03 1939 175 180

A E Fuller Author Operation and Rigging of Shinn’s NH 20 03 1939 181 182 Ferry (The) Lillis L Russell Author Pioneer Mother (A) Rachel Ann Evans who married NH 20 03 1939 182 187 Hammond Ellis, 1862 Lillis L Russell Author Song of the Builders Poem NH 20 03 1939 187 187

143 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Story of Hay Burners and Balers NH 20 03 1939 188 190 (The) H S Robinson Author How We Do It NH 20 03 1939 191 192

Martha M Turner Author History in Nebraska Newspapers NH 20 03 1939 215 220

Foreword and Program of the 1940 NH 20 04 1939 225 229 Annual Meetings: State Historical Society, Native Sons and Daughters of Nebraska Howard R Driggs Author Early Trails as a National Heritage NH 20 04 1939 230 242

Harry E Gantz Author Pump Irrigation in Nebraska NH 20 04 1939 243 253

Superintendent’s Annual Report; NH 20 04 1939 254 277 Supplemental Reports by Department Heads Anna M Phillips Author Book of Box Butte County (The) NH 20 04 1939 278 283

Discovery of Producing Petroleum NH 20 04 1939 285 291 Wells in Nebraska; Oil in the Forest City Basin; Richard County Oil Development Homer L Kyle Author 355th Infantry (Nebraska) Regiment in NH 20 04 1939 292 297 the World War J R Farris Author My Recollections of Pioneering in In 1938, the title changed to the NH 19 01 1938 003 027 Cherry County current Nebraska History. See “A History of Nebraska History” A B Wood Author Coad Brothers (The): Panhandle NH 19 01 1938 028 043 Cattle Kings Edwin Ford Piper Author Dry Bones Poem NH 19 01 1938 043 043

Addison E Sheldon Author Arthur F Mullen: A Tribute NH 19 01 1938 044 045

Florence E Hyde Author Nebraska Poem NH 19 01 1938 046 046

Martha M Turner Author History in Nebraska Newspapers NH 19 01 1938 065 071

Earl (Mrs) Seyfer Author More Ghost Towns in Otoe County NH 19 01 1938 072 072

144 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Flora Bullock Author Christmas, Nineteen Hundred Thirty- Poem NH 19 02 1938 077 077 Eight John F (Col) Franklin Author Fort Kearny Block House (The) NH 19 02 1938 079 083

Addison E Sheldon Author Remarks at Dedication of Block NH 19 02 1938 084 086 House Thurman A Smith Author Story of a Government Land Claim in NH 19 02 1938 087 102 Nebraska (The) Florence B Kortman Author Home in the Cedars (The) NH 19 02 1938 103 116

Marsha C Smith Author Thirty-two, Twenty-one, Seventeen NH 19 02 1938 117 125

Maud Burrows Author Last Cowboy Raid of Kearney (The) NH 19 02 1938 126 127 Marston Martha M Turner Author History in Nebraska Newspapers NH 19 02 1938 163 168

Edwin Ford Piper Author Last Antelope (The): A Poem Poem NH 19 03 1938 173 173

Addison E Sheldon Author Stories and Life NH 19 03 1938 174 174

T L Green Author “Scotts Bluffs, Fort John” NH 19 03 1938 175 190

Addison E Sheldon Author Nebraskans I have Known: I William NH 19 03 1938 191 206 Vincent Allen Mary Hungate Author Religious Beliefs of the Nebraska NH 19 03 1938 207 226 Indian Elbert L Taylor Author Tribute to D F Neiswanger of NH 19 03 1938 227 230 Cambridge (A) Dr Edwin Ford Piper: An NH 19 03 1938 231 231 Appreciation Francis Edward Park: A Sketch NH 19 03 1938 232 233

Taopi Ciqala Wotanin Publication of an Indian School NH 19 03 1938 234 236

Frank J Stanoscheck Author WPA Guide to Historical Manuscripts NH 19 03 1938 237 237

Record of Births, Deaths and NH 19 03 1938 238 239 Marriages in Nebraska How a Town was Named NH 19 03 1938 240 240

145 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page A Ballad on Nebraska Fuel NH 19 03 1938 241 241

Martha M Turner Author History in Nebraska Newspapers NH 19 03 1938 283 288

George R Leighton Author Omaha, Nebraska NH 19 04 1938 293 330

Addison E Sheldon Author Nebraskans I have Known: John NH 19 04 1938 331 338 Holbrook Powers Margaret M Gehrke Author Winter Comes Poem NH 19 04 1938 339 339

Loraine Ferris Author Gouverneur Kemble Warren, The NH 19 04 1938 354 353 Man Gertrude E Smith Author Tumbleweeds Poem NH 19 04 1938 354 354

Addison E Sheldon Author Superintendent’s Historical Addresses NH 19 04 1938 355 360

A E Fuller Author Making Historical Maps of Nebraska NH 19 04 1938 361 362

Bonnie R Berry Author Pause of the Laborer Poem NH 19 04 1938 363 364

Gertrude E Smith Author Memories of Early Nebraska Days NH 19 04 1938 364 364

Captain Cook Has a Party NH 19 04 1938 365 365

Belle Coakley’s Lectures on Indian NH 19 04 1938 366 367 Life L Lucile Barten Author Story of a Gift and Its Giver (The) NH 19 04 1938 368 370

Thurman A Smith Author Westward, Ever Westward NH 19 04 1938 371 371

Addison E Sheldon Author Founder of Nebraska’s Bean Industry NH 19 04 1938 372 372

Mrs A J Sawyer NH 19 04 1938 372 372

Addison E Sheldon Author Oldest Nebraska Historian Hands NH 19 04 1938 373 373 “Thirty” In M M Davis Author Las Trail Herd of Texas Longhorns NH 19 04 1938 374 376 (The) Early Railroad Passenger Business: Special Issue: Building the First NH 18 01 1937 Burlington Line in Nebraska Commissions and Scalping 039 041

146 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Passenger Rates and Agent’s 042 047 Commissions To the Pioneer Special Issue: Building the First NH 18 01 1937 003 003 Burlington Line in Nebraska A E Sheldon Author Builders and Operators of Nebraska Special Issue: Building the First NH 18 01 1937 004 004 Railroads Burlington Line in Nebraska Mabel Hill Author Paul Hill: Removal of the Potawatomi Special Issue: Building the First NH 18 01 1937 005 009 Burlington Line in Nebraska Frontier Letters, 1837-1839 Special Issue: Building the First NH 18 01 1937 010 012 Burlington Line in Nebraska D R Burleigh Author Burlington First Main Line (The) Special Issue: Building the First NH 18 01 1937 013 017 Burlington Line in Nebraska Burlington Change of Location Special Issue: Building the First NH 18 01 1937 017 018 Burlington Line in Nebraska Mabel Hill Author Paul Hill: Railroad Builder Special Issue: Building the First NH 18 01 1937 021 024 Burlington Line in Nebraska Paul Hill: Extracts from Paul Hill 024 026 Letters and Diaries

Construction Letters and Documents, 026 038 Paul Hill Papers

A E Sheldon Author Scotts Bluff Fifty Years Ago Special Issue: Building the First NH 18 01 1937 052 052 Burlington Line in Nebraska Victor F Clark Author More Nebraska Stories Special Issue: Building the First NH 18 01 1937 053 055 Burlington Line in Nebraska George (Mrs) Peck Author Prairie Fire NH 18 02 1937 067 076

Frank Schmidt Author West Point: A Pioneer Community NH 18 02 1937 077 090

Emma Bargman Author George W Hummel: Pioneer Prairie NH 18 02 1937 091 103 Preacher Maud Burrows Author Great Kearney Real Estate Boom NH 18 02 1937 104 114 Marston (The) John L Champe Author Explorations in Nebraska Archeology NH 18 02 1937 116 125

E P Wilson Author President’s Address, 1936 NH 18 02 1937 126 129

A E Sheldon Author Encyclopedia of Nebraska Project of the Nebraska State NH 18 02 1937 130 131 Historical Society

147 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Louise W Mears Author Miss Eliza Morgan of Peru: A Short NH 18 02 1937 132 134 Biography Everett Dick Author Ed Howe: Notable Figure on Sod- NH 18 02 1937 138 143 House Frontier D J Wood Author Recollections of Ed Howe NH 18 02 1937 144 144

Stephen J Turille Author Judge Monroe W Neihart NH 18 03 1937 163 171

Addison E Sheldon Author Value of Local Historical Museums NH 18 03 1937 173 177 (The) Dedication of Washington County NH 18 03 1937 179 180 Historical Museum G H Gilmore Author Ghost Towns in Cass County NH 18 03 1937 181 184

John C Miller Author Ghost Towns in Otoe County NH 18 03 1937 185 189

Solitary Ghosts – compiled from NH 18 03 1937 189 191 Historical Society Files Addison E Sheldon Author Lewis and Clark Centennial Poem NH 18 03 1937 192 192

J E North Author Story of the “Pawnee War” NH 18 03 1937 193 195

Lena Briggs Author Another Story of the Kearney Boom NH 18 03 1937 196 199

C Raymond Woodard Author Mary E Smith-Hayward: A Frontier NH 18 03 1937 200 202 Leader of Men and Women Hattie Keeler Nelson Author History of Wattsville NH 18 03 1937 203 205

Truman Freeland Author Twilight in the Sand-Hills Poem NH 18 03 1937 206 206

Martha M Turner Author History in Nebraska Newspapers NH 18 03 1937 227 232

Ghost Map of Cass County Foldout Map NH 18 03 1937 237 237

Addison E Sheldon Author Foreword to Special issue Special Issue: Archeological NH 18 04 1937 241 242 Campaign of 1937 A T Hill Author The Archeological Campaign of 1937: Special Issue: Archeological NH 18 04 1937 243 248 Paul Cooper Author Campaign of 1937 The Ashland Site 249 278 Pawnee Creek Site 278 286 Cornish Site 287 295

148 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Fontenelle Forest Site 298 309 North Plattsmouth Site 310 317 Majors Site 318 328 Williams Site 328 332 Heywood Site 332 334 Osborne Site 334 338 Whitten Site 338 345 Morehead Site 345 346 Indian Cave 346 348 McKissick Site 349 349 Conclusion 350 353

A T Hill Author Excavations at the Leary Indian Special Issue: Report of Field Work NH 17 01 1936 003 073 Waldo R Wedel Author Village and Burial Site, Richardson at the Leary site by the Archeological County, Nebraska Survey of the Nebraska State Historical Society, 1935, The Pike- Pawnee Site D R Burleigh Author Pike-Pawnee Site (The) Special Issue: Report of Field Work NH 17 01 1936 075 076 at the Leary site by the Archeological Survey of the Nebraska State Historical Society, 1935, The Pike- Pawnee Site Helen Williams Author Old Wyoming Native Sons and Daughters of NH 17 02 1936 079 090 Roberta Nebraska Prize Essays

Eunice Mutz Heard Author Twenty-two Years in Keya Paha 091 102

Florence Kortman Author Madison, A Pioneer Nebraska 103 112 Bauch Community

Andrew Jensen Author Latter-Day Saints Emigration from NH 17 02 1936 113 127 Wyoming, Nebraska-1864-1866 W H Smith Author Reynolds Homestead in Seward NH 17 02 1936 128 129 County Margaret Chambers Author Biography of James Chambers NH 17 02 1936 130 139

Tobias Collection of Paintings NH 17 02 1936 140 140

Walker D Wyman Author Omaha: Frontier Depot and Prodigy Special Issue: Omaha Sketches NH 17 03 1936 143 155 of Council Bluffs

149 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Letters Home, 1850 and 1859 Special Issue: Omaha Sketches NH 17 03 1936 156 161

Alfred Sorenson Author Biographical Sketch of Edward Special Issue: Omaha Sketches NH 17 03 1936 163 169 Creighton Ralph G Coad Author Irish Pioneers of Nebraska Special Issue: Omaha Sketches NH 17 03 1936 171 177

Omaha Central High School, Special Issue: Omaha Sketches NH 17 03 1936 178 180 Reminiscences Victor Rosewater Author How I Came to Go Into Newspaper Special Issue: Omaha Sketches NH 17 03 1936 181 187 Work Original Stockholders of the Omaha Special Issue: Omaha Sketches NH 17 03 1936 187 188 Bee Walter Christensen Author Gilbert M Hitchcock Special Issue: Omaha Sketches NH 17 03 1936 189 191

Reminiscences of Early Omaha, Special Issue: Omaha Sketches NH 17 03 1936 193 214 Series of Articles Printed by Clement Chase in 1916 A T Hill Author Schrader Site (The) Special Issue: Archeology Number NH 17 04 1936 223 252 Paul Cooper Author A T Hill Author Champe Site (The) Special Issue: Archeology Number NH 17 04 1936 253 270 Paul Cooper Author A T Hill Author Fremont 1 Special Issue: Archeology Number NH 17 04 1936 271 292 Paul Cooper Author Hugh P (Mrs) Stoddard Author Martha Jane Harshman Aldrich Native Sons and Daughters of NH 16 01 1935 002 035 Ann Rush Riley Author George F Sawyer Nebraska. Prize Essays: Ann Rush Riley Author George F Sawyer C O Snow Author History of the Half-Breed Tract NH 16 01 1935 036 048

H C Luckey Author Homestead National Monument of NH 16 01 1935 048 051 America Esther K Hansen Author Pierce County Historical Reports NH 16 01 1935 052 056 Progress Ernest F Witte Author Nebraska FERA Art Exhibit NH 16 01 1935 057 060

Isaiah David Evans Author Events Remembered in the Life of NH 16 02 1935 066 081 Isaiah David Evans, by himself Ella J DeBell Author Bruner and Neligh Families (The) NH 16 02 1935 082 092

Alice G Harvey Author Beginning of Tobias, Nebraska (The) NH 16 02 1935 093 097

150 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Military Road in Douglas County Illustration NH 16 02 1935 098 098 (The) Dorothy Ruth Mutz Author Benson: A Residential Suburban NH 16 02 1935 099 111 Community Fred Thornton Author Rescue of Freddie Detwiler (The) NH 16 02 1935 112 114

Thomas F Barton Author Settlement of Nebraska Interfluves as NH 16 02 1935 115 125 (Dr) Exemplified by the Hastings Interfluves Addison E Sheldon Author Last American Indian Battle (The) Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 131 131 Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian Battle in America A C Shallenberger Author Last Pawnee-Sioux Indian Battle and Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 132 145 Buffalo Hunt (The) Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian Battle in America Sioux-Pawnee Battle Documents: Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 147 155 Indian Office Documents on Sioux- Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian Pawnee Battle Battle in America Sioux-Pawnee Battle Documents: Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 156 160 Sioux-Pawnee Battle – Letters Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian Battle in America William Burgess Author Sioux-Pawnee Battle Documents: Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 161 165 Last Buffalo Hunt (The) Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian Battle in America Sioux-Pawnee Battle Documents: Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 165 169 Sioux Hunting in Republican Valley, Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian notes from Ricker Interviews Battle in America A L Taylor Author Massacre Canyon Memorial: Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 171 177 Building the Massacre Canyon Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian Monument Battle in America Massacre Canyon Memorial: Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 178 178 Dedication Program Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian Battle in America Addison E Sheldon Author Massacre Canyon Memorial: Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 179 181 (Mrs) Massacre Canyon Monument Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian Dedication Battle in America Massacre Canyon Bibliography Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 183 184 Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian Battle in America

151 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Nebraska State Historical Society Special Issue: Massacre Canyon NH 16 03 1935 185 189 Federal Projects Number, Last Inter-Tribal Indian Battle in America Bayard H Paine Author Decisions Which Have Changed NH 16 04 1935 195 219 Nebraska History H L Weingart Translator Defense of Grand island (The), 1864, NH 16 04 1935 221 227 William Stolley Letter translated by H L Weingart James H Cook Author Texas Trail (The)—Ricker Interview NH 16 04 1935 229 240

Addison E Sheldon Author Sheridan County Region (The)— NH 16 04 1935 241 249 Origin and Early History Leslie Dykstra Author Red Cloud A Poem NH 15 01 1934 003 003 Thompson Emma Williams Author “Granny” Snedeker Native Sons and Daughters of NH 15 01 1934 004 014 Hurley Nebraska, Prize Essay Walter B Graham Author Biography of Thomas Graham (The) Native Sons and Daughters of NH 15 01 1934 015 026 Nebraska, Prize Essay Clara Butts Author Biography of Mrs M E Goodenow Native Sons and Daughters of NH 15 01 1934 027 037 Nebraska, Prize Essay T L Green Author Forgotten Fur Trading Post in Scotts NH 15 01 1934 038 046 Bluff County (A) Bayard H Paine Author Indian Depredation Claim that Proved NH 15 01 1934 047 057 a Boomerang (An) George F Lamb Author Discoveries in Life of Plains NH 15 01 1934 058 061 Prehistoric Man by the State Historical Society Expedition of 1934 Program Personalities Clara Butts, Wilbur Chenoweth, Mrs NH 15 01 1934 061 063 Leslie Thompson Dykstra, Frank C Goings, Walter B Graham, Thomas L Green, George Franklin Lamb, Maud Edgerton Nuquist, Bayard H Paine, Magdelene Craft Radke, Carl Frederic Steckelberg, Helen H Tuttle, Marie O’Donnell Weekes, Emma Hurley Williams In Memory of Will E Hardy NH 15 01 1934 064 064

Martha M Turner Author Nebraska Newspapers, Work of the NH 15 02 1934 067 076 Newspaper Librarian

152 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page With the US Army Along the Oregon The diary of John J Pattison, a devout NH 15 02 1934 079 093 Trail, 1863-66 soldier serving in Iowa, Nebraska Territory, Colorado Territory 1863 to 1866, addressing his everyday life in the Army. After his discharge, John J Pattison filed on a homestead in Kearney County and died, leaving his wife and children to establish the frontier home. Kiwanis Medal for distinguished NH 15 02 1934 096 100 Service to the State of Nebraska Year 1934 in the Historical Society NH 15 02 1934 101 102 Museum (The), Under the Direction of A T Hill Zimmerman Collection (The) NH 15 02 1934 103 104

Martha M Turner Author Platte County Pioneer Stories NH 15 02 1934 104 106

Elmer E Amende Author Nebraska Historical Pageant NH 15 02 1934 106 108 (Mrs) Indian-Surveyor Fight on Chase and NH 15 02 1934 108 109 Dundy Line G E Lemmon Author Interesting Stories of the Early NH 15 02 1934 110 113 Nebraska 1850-1876 David Anderson Author “Fort” Montrose, Sioux County NH 15 02 1934 114 115

Historical Notes NH 15 02 1934 116 128

Contributions to the Archaeology of NH 15 03 1934 133 209 the Upper Republican Valley, Nebraska Minneapolis 1: A Prehistoric Village NH 15 03 1934 210 238 Site in Ottawa County, Kansas Salina 1: A protohistoric Village Site NH 15 03 1934 239 250 in McPherson County, Kansas Preliminary Classification for NH 15 03 1934 251 255 Nebraska and Kansas Cultures (Appendix) North Memorial Magazine (the) NH 15 04 1934 258 258

153 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page North-Williamson Letters NH 15 04 1934 260 276

Luther H North Authors / Surround of Red Cloud and Red Leaf NH 15 04 1934 277 295 William Garnett Editors Camps; Mrs Kills Above and Other Indians A E Sheldon Author North Brothers and the Pawnee NH 15 04 1934 297 304 Nation Luther H North Author “Pony Express” North of Platte NH 15 04 1934 305 306

Excerpts from Letters of Tribute to NH 15 04 1934 309 310 Luther H North North Memorial NH 15 04 1934 310 312

North Bibliography NH 15 04 1934 313 314

Work of Historical Societies in Other NH 15 04 1934 315 316 States North Birthday Party NH 15 04 1934 318 318

Olive Gass Author Vigilantes of Eastern Nebraska NH 14 01 1933 003 018

T Josephine Haugen Author Lynching of Kid Wade (The) NH 14 01 1933 018 034

Earl H Bell Author Ancient Life in Nebraska NH 14 01 1933 035 037

J Wyman Markin Author Archeological Explorations in Harlan NH 14 01 1933 038 041 County I D Evans Author Lone Grave at Kenesaw (The) NH 14 01 1933 041 042

Everett Harte Author Indian Sites at Wray, Colorado NH 14 01 1933 042 043

Charles D Randolph Author Round-up at North Platte (The) NH 14 01 1933 043 044

Mary F H Moyer Author Luke Lavender’s First Tree in Lincoln NH 14 01 1933 044 047

Florence M Knight Author Box Butte County Historical NH 14 01 1933 048 048 (Mrs) Commission A V Pease Author Julia Beatrice Kinney Metcalf NH 14 01 1933 049 056 Gertrude Metcalf Sholes Author R R Greenland Author Mr Greenland Nails Some Frontier NH 14 01 1933 056 057

154 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Lies

L S Herron Author Deficiency Judgments, Past and NH 14 01 1933 057 057 Present Director A T Hill NH 14 02 1933 081 082

Old Indian Camps and Battlefields NH 14 02 1933 082 086

James H Cook Author Early Days I Ogalalla NH 14 02 1933 086 099

Work of Dr W D Strong “W D Strong’s Explorations” NH 14 02 1933 099 100

Address of Superintendent Henry Roe NH 14 02 1933 100 102 Cloud Addison E Sheldon Author Cato, the Censor, on Farming Review by Editor NH 14 02 1933 102 108

Jessie True Babcock Author Valley County Colony NH 14 02 1933 108 109

George H Garrison Author Early Sheridan County NH 14 02 1933 109 110

E C Newland Author Crazy Horse NH 14 02 1933 110 111

W W Haskell Author Land of Ak-sar-ben (The) NH 14 02 1933 111 113

C A Moore Author Old Omaha Ranch NH 14 02 1933 113 114

W H Hotze Author Stockville NH 14 02 1933 114 116

W N Meserve Author Dr Meserve in Gage County NH 14 02 1933 116 119

Grace Maddox Author William M Maddox NH 14 02 1933 119 122

Henry Rohwer Author Rohwer Grist Mill, Fort Calhoun NH 14 02 1933 122 123

B E Bengtson Author Grand Pawnee Village NH 14 02 1933 124 129

F M (Mrs) Knight Author Early Days in Box Butte County NH 14 02 1933 137 142

Waldo R Wedel Author Medicine Valley Archeology NH 14 03 1933 145 165

Addison E Sheldon Author 1934 Campaign on Nebraska NH 14 03 1933 167 169 Prehistoric Sites (The)

155 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Major A L Green Otoe Indian NH 14 03 1933 169 174 Collection (The) A T Hill Author Archeology Explorations in Nebraska NH 14 03 1933 174 177 in 1933 George F Lamb Prehistoric Collection NH 14 03 1933 177 178 (The) Charles A Bowers Author Plum Creek Massacre Monument NH 14 03 1933 182 184 Paul Erickson Author George F Staats Author Dodge County Historical Markers NH 14 03 1933 184 186

J A (Mrs) George Author Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Banner NH 14 03 1933 186 188 County Adam Schoup Author Jack Casement’s Personal Wagoner NH 14 03 1933 188 191 William General Miles and Buffalo Bill NH 14 03 1933 191 191

Old Nebraska Maps and Letters from NH 14 03 1933 192 194 Horace Metcalf Cornelius Gardner Author McGuire’s Slough NH 14 03 1933 194 195

Mina Clark Buhn Author Story of Kid Wade (The) NH 14 03 1933 195 195

Some High Points in Nebraska NH 14 03 1933 196 206 History Ada Gray Bemis Author My Own Biography Native Sons and Daughters of NH 14 04 1933 209 219 Nebraska Prize Essays Anne Rush Riley Author Biography of a Nebraska Pioneer Native Sons and Daughters of NH 14 04 1933 220 227 (the), James Ferry Nebraska Prize Essays Pauline F Koertner Author Biography of a Nebraska Pioneer Native Sons and Daughters of NH 14 04 1933 228 237 (The), Rebecca Burkhard Snyder Nebraska Prize Essays Nebraska History Study Class (A) NH 14 04 1933 241 245

C E (Mrs) Lattin Author Pioneer Days NH 14 04 1933 242 244

H M Worley Author Mrs C C White’s School NH 14 04 1933 244 245

Mina Clark Buhn Author Early Days Along the Niobrara NH 14 04 1933 246 251

Will M Maupin Author Oregon Trail Days NH 14 04 1933 252 254

156 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Frances Saportas Author Jean Pierre Cabanne NH 14 04 1933 254 255 Cabanne Frank Pilger Author Huterites in Nebraska NH 14 04 1933 256 258

Victor A Sturm Author Factoryville, A Nebraska Ghost Town NH 14 04 1933 258 260

L W (Mrs) Colby Author Sword of General L W Colby Presentation Address NH 14 04 1933 260 261

High Points in Nebraska History Sarpy County Historical Society; Rev NH 14 04 1933 262 266 Reuben Gaylord; Van Fleet Park; Burning up the Road in 1902; First Gasoline Motor Car Service on U P; Gabriel Colin; Claim Club Agreement; Grade Checks; More on Sandhill Malaria; Lee Herron on National Recovery; Leavenworth and Pikes Peak Road Cora Phebe Mullin Author Story of Bellevue (The) A Poem NH 14 04 1933 267 270

Marie U Harmer Author Charles H Van Wyck – Soldier and Conclusion and Appendix NH 13 01 1932 002 036 James L Sellers Author Statesman E E Blackman Author Nebraska Flint Knife and Flint Fish NH 13 01 1932 036 041 Hook (A) Mary (Mrs) Carmack Author Memories of Omaha NH 13 01 1932 042 057

Fifty-fifth Annual Historical Meetings NH 13 01 1932 058 060

Editorial Notes Historical Sites; Historic Movement NH 13 01 1932 061 065 of the Corn Belt; Pershing Hall in Paris Addison E Sheldon Author Historical Journey to the Northwest NH 13 02 1932 069 079 (An) George F Smith Author Trip in Early Days in Northeast NH 13 02 1932 080 085 Nebraska (A) Kenneth Young Author History of Peru Normal (A) NH 13 02 1932 086 095

Oldest Nebraska House (The) NH 13 02 1932 097 098

Nebraska Diamond Memorial Tablet NH 13 02 1932 099 102 (The)

157 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Mary (Sister) Evangela Author Irish Catholic Colonies in Nebraska NH 13 02 1932 102 103 (The) Nebraska Goldfields 1859-1932 NH 13 02 1932 104 106

Otto Engel Author Lutheran district Synod in Nebraska NH 13 02 1932 106 108 (The) Tom Rivington, of Gering NH 13 02 1932 109 109

J L Sellers Author New History of Nebraska (A) NH 13 02 1932 110 112

Victor Rosewater Author W J Bryan and Edward Rosewater NH 13 02 1932 113 115

H S (Mrs) White Author Song of Pioneer Days (A) NH 13 02 1932 115 115

Mississippi Valley Historical Meeting NH 13 02 1932 116 116

Adelaide Samson Author Nebraska in 1863 NH 13 02 1932 116 119

A B Thomas Author Why did the Comanche Leave NH 13 02 1932 119 120 Nebraska? Editorial Notes NH 13 02 1932 120 128

Letters from Pioneer of Johnson NH 13 02 1932 128 132 County, 1864-1868 Addison E Sheldon Author A Page of Nebraska Verse NH 13 02 1932 132 133

Robert Bruce Author Fighting Norths (The) Inside Cover [listed as page 135] NH 13 03 1932 135 135

Senator John W Robbins NH 13 03 1932 136 136

Steam Wagon Road 1866 – 1932, W NH 13 03 1932 137 159 H Jackson Diary Prehistoric Man in Nebraska Plains Conference at Lincoln NH 13 03 1932 160 165

G H Gilmore Author Turtle Mound and Vicinity NH 13 03 1932 166 169

George F Lamb Author Earth Lodges in Thayer county NH 13 03 1932 169 172

A T Hill Author Ruins of Prehistoric House in Howard NH 13 03 1932 172 175 County R E Olmstead Author Ancient Indian Village on Stinking NH 13 03 1932 175 177 Water 158 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Thomas N Russell Author Picture Rocks of Table Rock (The) NH 13 03 1932 177 182

Lou W Frazier Author Oldest Nebraska Newspaper Editor NH 13 03 1932 183 183

Hoover-Roosevelt Campaign 1932 NH 13 04 1932 195 296

Pioneer Conditions and Home NH 13 03 1932 197 201 Remedies in Pennsylvania, 1750-1820 Ruth Young Author Memoir of John L Sanders of Frontier NH 13 03 1932 201 205 Woodring County Leslie D Ricker Author Early Years in Dawes County 1885- NH 13 03 1932 206 208 1900 Jules Haumont Author Pioneer Years in Custer County NH 13 04 1932 233 237

Charles Q DeFrance Author Some Recollections of Thomas H NH 13 04 1932 238 247 Tibbles W H Fouse Author Fouse Steam Wagon Road Ranch NH 13 04 1932 247 249

A L Anderson Author Thompson Bissell, Saunders County NH 13 04 1932 249 254 Pioneer W A Anderson Author My Last Hunt for Large Game NH 13 04 1932 254 266

Henry Allen Brainerd Author Nebraska’s Press History NH 13 04 1932 266 271

Thomas H Tibbles Author Anecdotes of Standing Bear NH 13 04 1932 271 276 (Deceased) Early Photographs of Pawnee Indians NH 13 04 1932 276 277

Victor A Sturm Author Four Forgotten Graves Alphonso Young, James Le Roy, NH 13 04 1932 277 278 George Dillon, Thomas G A, son of Wm and Eliza McMillan Addison E Sheldon Author Francis La Flesche NH 13 04 1932 282 284

Alvin Saunders Portrait Bust NH 13 04 1932 285 285

Addison E Sheldon Author Historical Society Museum Moving NH 13 04 1932 286 289 Into State Capitol Addison E Sheldon Author Deficiency Judgments in the Nineties NH 13 04 1932 289 294

Old Cottonwoods of Military Avenue NH 13 04 1932 302 302 at fort Kearny

159 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Edward Manley Author Iliad of Early Nebraska (An) No publications with dates for NH 13 03 1932 1832 197 1931 and 1930 were printed …

For more explanation of the history of publication, see “A History of Nebraska History” E A Brininstool Author Story of Crazy Horse (The) No publications with dates for NH 12 01 1929 004 042 Jesse M Lee Author 1931 and 1930 were printed … Mrs Jesse M Lee Author V T McGillicuddy Author For more explanation of the history of publication, see “A History of Nebraska History” Addison E Sheldon Editor Appendix and Editorial Comment NH 12 01 1929 044 077

Addison E Sheldon Editor Chadron and the White River Valley NH 12 01 1929 044 044

J G Bourke Author Crazy Horse Campaign NH 12 01 1929 045 046

J G Bourke Author Surrender of Crazy Horse NH 12 01 1929 046 049

L P Bradley Author Arrest and Death of Crazy Horse NH 12 01 1929 050 051

Nelson A Miles Author Recollections of Crazy Horse NH 12 01 1929 052 052

James Irwin Author Crazy Horse as Viewed by Indian NH 12 01 1929 052 056 Agent at Red Cloud Biographical Sketch of Crazy Horse Editor Handbook of American Indians NH 12 01 1929 056 058

Frank Grouard Author Indian Scout’s Recollections on Crazy NH 12 01 1929 058 058 Horse (An) Nebraska Newspaper Account of Omaha Daily Herald NH 12 01 1929 058 061 Crazy Horse Joe DeBarthe Author Life of Frank Grouard NH 12 01 1929 062 074

Editor’s Notes NH 12 01 1929 074 077 Information from Prof E P Wilson Letter from T B Augustine Bibliography on Crazy Horse NH 12 01 1929 078 078

Marie U Harmer Author Charles H Van Wyck – Soldier and Chapters 1 - 4 NH 12 02 1929 080 128 James L Sellers Author Statesman 160 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Cora Phoebe Mullin Author Founding of Fort Hartsuff (The) NH 12 02 1929 129 157

W J Bryan Author W J Bryan’s First Plea to a Jury Letter of W J Bryan to Miss Mary NH 12 02 1929 157 161 Baird, Who Became Mrs W J Bryan Annual Meeting Nebraska State NH 12 02 1929 172 180 Historical Society Memorial and Appreciation: NH 12 02 1929 181 184 James F Hanson Marie U Harmer Author Charles H Van Wyck –Soldier and Chapters 5 – 8 NH 12 03 1929 190 246 James L Sellers Author Statesman Charles L Lindsey Editor Diary of Dr Thomas G Maghee (The) NH 12 03 1929 247 304

Marie U Harmer Author Charles H Van Wyck –Soldier and Chapters 9-11 and Conclusion NH 12 04 1929 322 373 James L Sellers Author Statesman Nebraska Homestead Story (A): Letters and Diary of a Pioneer NH 12 04 1929 377 398 Homesteading in Nebraska in the Preacher and His Wife: Grace Bartlett Seventies Newell and Isaac Newell, and John Bartlett O A Abbott Author Recollections of a Pioneer Lawyer: Chapters 1 – 8 NH 11 01 1928 002 064 Othman A Abbott, First Lieutenant O A Abbott Author Recollections of a Pioneer Lawyer: Chapters 9 – 15 NH 11 02 1928 064 112 Othman A Abbott, First Lieutenant O A Abbott Author Recollections of a Pioneer Lawyer: Chapters 16 – 23 NH 11 03 1928 114 177 Othman A Abbott, First Lieutenant Tour of Nebraska Historical Train, Special Issue: Nebraska Historical NH 11 04 1928 177 178 June 20, 1928 – November 14, 1928 Train, Tour of Nebraska, First in the United States Addison E Sheldon Author Introduction Special Issue: Nebraska Historical NH 11 04 1928 180 182 Train, Tour of Nebraska, First in the United States E E Blackman Author Coal Ash Trail (The) Special Issue: Nebraska Historical NH 11 04 1928 183 219 Train, Tour of Nebraska, First in the United States E E Blackman Author Mounting the Historical Exhibits Special Issue: Nebraska Historical NH 11 04 1928 219 219 Train, Tour of Nebraska, First in the United States E E Blackman Author Dismantling the Exhibits Special Issue: Nebraska Historical NH 11 04 1928 220 220 Train, Tour of Nebraska, First in the United States

161 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Addison E Sheldon Author Alliance Celebration (The) Special Issue: Nebraska Historical NH 11 04 1928 220 222 Train, Tour of Nebraska, First in the United States Addison E Sheldon Author Address: “Northwest Nebraska and Special Issue: Nebraska Historical NH 11 04 1928 223 232 the Box Butte Table” Train, Tour of Nebraska, First in the United States Minden Meeting (The): Addresses by Special Issue: Nebraska Historical NH 11 04 1928 233 254 John M Stewart, Byron Clark, E M Train, Tour of Nebraska, First in the Westervelt, J L McPheely, Addison E United States Sheldon, O E Pearson, Val Kuska, F E Haines, C J Rohwitz Minden Historical Parade (The) Special Issue: Nebraska Historical NH 11 04 1928 254 258 Train, Tour of Nebraska, First in the United States Wild Bill – McCanles Tragedy NH 10 02 1927 067 145 (Illustrated), A Much Misrepresented Even in Nebraska History In Memoriam: President Novia Z NH 10 03 1927 156 158 Snell, Vice President Michael A Shine War Between Nebraska and Kansas Over the True Location of the Pike- NH 10 03 1927 159 261 (The), Both Sides of the Dispute Pawnee Indian Village Where the Spanish Flag Came Down and the Stars and Stripes Went Up Buffalo Hunter (The), the Cowboy, With Maps and Illustrations NH 10 04 1927 262 350 the Missionary: True Stories of the Frontier in Western Nebraska Addison E Sheldon Author Editorial: “The Missouri” NH 08 01 1925 003 004

Addison E Sheldon Translator First White Explorers (The) Translated from French Archives NH 08 01 1925 005 011

Ivan E Jones Author Steam boating on the Nebraska Shore NH 08 01 1925 011 013

Dagmar Williams Author Dr Williams Steamboat Collection NH 08 01 1925 013 015 (The) H M Chittenden Author Early Steamboat Navigation and NH 08 01 1925 016 020 Bridges of the Missouri H M Chittenden Author Steamboat Wrecks on the Missouri NH 08 01 1925 021 028

J M Hanson Author Conquest of the Missouri (The) NH 08 01 1925 028 030

162 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Phil E Chappell Author Life on the Missouri NH 08 01 1925 031 032

George Marvin Author Great River (The) In World’s Work NH 08 01 1925 033 033

Herbert Hoover Author Inland Waterway Transportation Hoover, U S Secretary of Commerce NH 08 01 1925 034 035

James E Smith Author Navigation of the Missouri Smith, President Mississippi Valley NH 08 01 1925 036 036 Association L U Reavis Author Great Missouri-Mississippi Valley NH 08 01 1925 037 037 and Its Commerce (The) Steamboat Navigation in the Sixties People’s Press, July 19, 1860 NH 08 01 1925 038 039

Fur Trade of the West (The) People’s Press, October 4, 1860 NH 08 01 1925 040 041

A J Weaver Author Nebraska, Its Next Great Opportunity NH 08 01 1925 042 055

Missouri River Wins Fight in Press Reports, January 15, 1927 NH 08 01 1925 056 058 Congress U S Expenditures on Missouri River Missouri River Commission Report NH 08 01 1925 059 059

President Coolidge Signs Missouri Omaha Bee, January 22, 1927 NH 08 01 1925 060 061 River Bill Woods Brothers of Lincoln Believe in Omaha Bee, June 27, 1926 NH 08 01 1925 062 062 Missouri River Navigation Bibliography on the Missouri River NH 08 01 1925 063 064

E E Blackman Author Historical Society Radio, with account NH 07 01 1924 001 008 of exploration of Aboriginal Remains in Loup Valley Battle at the Forks of the Loup and the NH 06 01 1924 001 004 Platte (The) August 11, 1720. Extermination of the Spanish Army by Otoe Tribe of Indians. A New Chapter in Nebraska History J A Smith Author First Homestead in Box Butte County NH 07 01 1924 008 008

Vicksburg Citizen, July 2, 1963, Lucy NH 07 01 1924 009 009 Haywood Beginnings of Schuyler (The) NH 07 01 1924 010 010

163 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Founding of the Irish Colony at NH 07 01 1924 011 011 O’Neill J A Smith Author Early Pioneer Period in the West NH 07 01 1924 012 013

Early History Cheyenne and Kimball NH 07 01 1924 014 015 Counties Some Changes in Nebraska NH 07 01 1924 015 015

C J Ernst Author Early Railroad Development of NH 07 01 1924 016 022 Nebraska Lucy J Barger Author Hebron Journal, A Chapter in Its NH 07 01 1924 023 023 History L C Dunlap Author Deed to Historical Society of Tract NH 07 01 1924 024 027 near Doniphan Mormon Trail Across Nebraska (The) NH 07 01 1924 026 063

O B Unthank Author Red Cloud Agency and Ft Laramie in NH 07 01 1924 027 029 1867-1874 Responses to Nebraska First NH 07 01 1924 029 031 Historical Radio First White Girl Born in Franklin NH 07 01 1924 031 031 County Early Days at Minatare NH 07 01 1924 031 032

Peter Ebbeson Author Danish Colonies in Holt County NH 07 01 1924 032 032

H Buss Author Hymn to Nebraska NH 07 01 1924 033 036

Pioneer Doctor (The) NH 07 01 1924 037 037

Plum Creek Railroad Attack (the), NH 07 01 1924 038 039 1867 Historical Paragraphs NH 07 01 1924 040 045

Monuments to Bohemian Pioneers NH 07 01 1924 046 047 and Pawnee Indian “Sky Chief” H Clyde Filley Author Elijah Filley, Leader in Improved NH 07 01 1924 048 054 Farming Mark E Zimmerman Author Stone Grave People of Nebraska and NH 07 01 1924 055 057 Kansas (The)

164 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Quakers and Nebraska Indians in NH 07 01 1924 059 061 1869 Santee Indian Agency in Peril NH 07 01 1924 064 064

Addison E Sheldon Author March of Villasur (The) – 1720 Poem NH 07 01 1924 065 065

Route of the Spanish Invasion of Illustration NH 07 01 1924 066 066 Nebraska in 1720. The Site of the Massacre A B Thomas Author Massacre of Villasur Expedition NH 07 03 1924 067 081

M A Shine Author In Favor of Loup Site Monsignor Shine Gives His NH 07 03 1924 082 087 Interpretation of Villasur March Addison E Sheldon Author Nebraska Historical Expedition – NH 07 03 1924 088 094 1924 E E Blackman Author Spanish Chain Armor on the Loup NH 07 03 1924 095 095

Additional references on Villasur NH 07 03 1924 095 095 Expedition Frederic W Pearsall Author Spanish Relics Near Genoa NH 07 03 1924 096 096

George W Prather Author Finding of Spanish Stirrups in 1874 NH 07 04 1924 097 101

R W Reynolds Author On the Trail of Jim Bridger’s NH 07 04 1924 102 105 Daughter A New England Letter Geo A Worcester NH 07 04 1924 105 105

C B Cass Author Historic Tree at Ravenna NH 07 04 1924 106 111 R L Cochran Author William Jordan Author Phil Dawson Author Wild Bill and Rock Creek Monument NH 07 04 1924 112 113 G W Hansen Author Coronado Stone Cross (The) NH 07 04 1924 114 114

T N Bobbitt Author Grasshopper Raids NH 07 04 1924 115 115

A N Keith Author Dull Knife Raid in 1878 NH 07 04 1924 116 118

Second Nebraska Cavalry (The) NH 07 04 1924 119 121

165 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page R E Ellison Author Letter from R E Ellison, Casper, NH 07 04 1924 122 122 Wyoming C S Munhall Author Seventh Cavalry at Washita (The) NH 07 04 1924 123 124

Poems on Nebraska NH 07 04 1924 125 127

George Bird Grinnell Author Letter from George Bird Grinnell, NH 07 04 1924 128 128 New York City J J Pershing Author Letters from Gen J J Pershing and NH 07 04 1924 128 128 N C Abbott Author Supt N C Abbott Addison E Sheldon Translator Translation from French and Spanish NH 06 01 1923 004 031 Sources by Addison E Sheldon M A Shine Author Letter from Reverend M A Shine NH 06 01 1923 032 032 upon New Documents First Visit of Nebraska Indians to NH 06 01 1923 033 038 Paris in 1725 Charlevoix Letters on the Massacre of NH 06 01 1923 038 040 the Spanish Caravan Addison E Sheldon Author Poem NH 06 02 1923 041 041

Orasmus Charles Dake, portrait and NH 06 02 1923 042 044 sketch Notes on Weeping Water NH 06 02 1923 045 045

Addison E Sheldon Author Beginnings of Nebraska Literature NH 06 02 1923 046 047

Orasmus Dake Author The Weeping Water – a Legend Reprinted from “Nebraska Legends NH 06 02 1923 049 068 Charles and Other Poems” Indian Summer – Bows and Arrows – NH 06 02 1923 069 070 The Pennsylvania Germans Historical Notes – West Point – Old NH 06 02 1923 070 072 Nursery Hill – Fickler’s Ranch – The 1881 Roundup – Table Rock , etc Grant Lee Shumway Author Tribute to Robert Harvey (A) Poem NH 06 03 1923 073 073

Portrait of Robert Harvey NH 06 03 1923 074 074

Addison E Sheldon Author Robert Harvey, Sketch NH 06 03 1923 075 076

Charles H VanWyck Author War Time Speech of Charles H NH 06 03 1923 076 078 VanWyck 166 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Annual Meeting January 16, 1924 NH 06 03 1923 079 079

M R Gilmore Author Nebraska Bean (A) NH 06 03 1923 079 079

Marc De Villiers Author Letter from Baron Marc de Villiers NH 06 03 1923 080 080

S D Fitchie Author Fight for Prohibition in Nebraska NH 06 03 1923 081 088 (The) H C Parkhurst Author Western Newspaper Men NH 06 03 1923 089 092

Historical Notes: Richardson County NH 06 03 1923 092 096 Poem; The November 1871 Storm; Early Days in Webster County; How Grasshoppers Stopped Union Pacific Trains; First Nebraska Creamery; Death of Charles Wooster; William Hawxby, Pioneer; A B Wood Albert Watkins NH 06 04 1923 097 098

Melvin R Gilmore Author Ground Bean (The) NH 06 04 1923 099 101

Mark M Coad Author Indian Fighting in 1864 NH 06 04 1923 102 108

John M MacColl Author Indian Villages in Webster County NH 06 04 1923 108 108

Washington Irving – John D NH 06 04 1923 109 110 Rockefeller Saxon Colony in Buffalo County Louis Weidner death NH 06 04 1923 110 110 (The) W S Harding Author Early Banks in Nebraska NH 06 04 1923 111 114

William Campbell Author Letter from Senator William NH 06 04 1923 114 115 Campbell Reverend A A Cressman’s Clock NH 06 04 1923 115 116

From the Daughter of Major Pearman NH 06 04 1923 116 116

Beecher Island Battlefield (The) NH 06 04 1923 116 117

Find Near Crawford (A) Ernest R Arner NH 06 04 1923 117 117

167 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Buffalo Wallow (The) NH 06 04 1923 117 117

Thomas J Williams Death NH 06 04 1923 117 117

Scout Mienhall Letter from Scout Mienhall (A) NH 06 04 1923 118 119

Pioneer Log House D A Young NH 06 04 1923 119 119

Mary J Jean Death NH 06 04 1923 119 119

Nellie Keefer Author Recollections of Professor Dake NH 06 04 1923 120 120 Williams James Ewing Death NH 06 04 1923 120 120

Early Day Dug-Out (The); Rawhide NH 06 04 1923 121 121 Story (The); Valentine Court House (The) H A Mullin Author “To An Old Branding Iron” Poem NH 06 04 1923 122 122

Early York County Days From the York Republican, June 12, NH 06 04 1923 122 123 1924 Hamilton County Pioneer Story Aurora Register, June 20, 1924 NH 06 04 1923 123 123

Marvin Warren; George Lieb; David Notes of Current Interest, various NH 06 04 1923 123 123 Beat; old school house in Dawes sources county; Mrs Edward W Thomas Historical Notes: E D Aller, George A NH 06 04 1923 124 128 Smith, Lloyd Geneskie, Oliver Furnas, J C Elliott, Arthur Frazier, Judge William Dilworth, Edmund Krause, Nels Alberts, John H Campbell, G H Schroeder, R W Hazen gift, James L Moore, George Hampton, Mrs J J Adams, Gottfred Weigle, Hartington Herald, Chief Yellow Horse, Susan Jane Smith, P A Williams, Lucy J Martin, Augustus Roats, H D Lute, Colonel Chas P Jordan, J F Nesbit, Mrs William H Smith, The 1888 Blizzard, Mrs A L Carlysle, William Wetzel, GAR Post Number 84, James Harris, Mrs 168 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Gertrude Rebhausen, John H Hefty, William I Watts Editorial Notes: Mormon handcart NH 05 01 1922 001 001 expeditions in 1856 by Miss Ruth A Gallagher; souvenir from Furnas county from William Sweeney Peter Jansen Author Memoirs of Peter Jansen NH 05 01 1922 002 003

George Bird Grinnell Author Letter from George Bird Grinnell NH 05 01 1922 003 003

Ed A Fry Author Mormons on the Niobrara NH 05 01 1922 004 006

A Roberts Author First Brick in Lincoln (The) NH 05 01 1922 006 009

Henry A Atkinson Author Letter From General Henry A NH 05 01 1922 009 011 Atkinson on the Nebraska Region (A) Early Black Hills Expeditions NH 05 01 1922 012 012

T N Bobbitt Author My Recollections of the Early Grange NH 05 01 1922 013 014 in Nebraska Nebraska in 1852 NH 05 01 1922 014 016

Beginnings of Minden NH 05 01 1922 017 017

Robert Harvey Author Paul Brothers of St Paul NH 05 02 1922 018 020

Military Posts in the West, Fort NH 05 02 1922 021 022 McPherson Branding in New England NH 05 02 1922 023 023

Senator P W Hitchcock’s Bank Note NH 05 02 1922 024 025 Reporter – 1860 Chongatonga (Big Horse), Otoe Chief NH 05 02 1922 026 026

Letter from Indian Commissioner NH 05 02 1922 027 027 Manypenny to Arkee-keetah, Otoe Chief Early History of Creek Indians NH 05 02 1922 028 028

New Years Carriers in Nebraska NH 05 02 1922 029 029

169 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Sioux-Pawnee War (The); Danish NH 05 02 1922 030 030 Colony in Howard Logan County – First Things NH 05 02 1922 031 031

Nebraska GAR (The) NH 05 03 1922 033 033

Chalk Bluff or Happy Jack NH 05 03 1922 034 034

Freighting – Buffalo Breeding – NH 05 03 1922 035 035 Pawnee Squaw Skull Creek, Butler County NH 05 03 1922 036 036

Crist Anderson – Josiah Miner – G F NH 05 03 1922 037 037 Smith Good Old Man – H W Brown – Jacob NH 05 03 1922 038 038 Adriance Whitney Village, Dawes County NH 05 03 1922 039 040

General John M Thayer NH 05 03 1922 041 046

Site of Plum Creek Massacre NH 05 03 1922 047 048

Death of Mrs John Pilcher NH 05 03 1922 049 049

Letter from Editor Edson, Filley NH 05 04 1922 050 050 Spotlight Rock Bluff – Grange Song Book – NH 05 04 1922 051 051 Joel Warner Tom Powers, Cattleman—James E NH 05 04 1922 052 052 Newsome, U P Porter J P Dunlap – Pioneer Nurseryman in NH 05 04 1922 053 056 Butler County Legend of Weeping Water NH 05 04 1922 057 059

Hastings Monument – Agate Springs NH 05 04 1922 059 059 – North Platte Log Cabin History of Louisiana NH 04 01 1921 004 007

Old Settler’s View (The) NH 04 01 1921 008 008

170 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Lillie Corn Husker (The) NH 04 01 1921 009 011

Historical Society Library NH 04 01 1921 012 012

Historical Society Museum NH 04 01 1921 013 014

First Hat Factory in Nebraska NH 04 01 1921 014 015

Wyuka Cemetery –Origin of the NH 04 01 1921 015 015 Name James Murie and the Skiki Pawnee NH 04 01 1921 016 016

Major Day Military Papers (The) NH 04 02 1921 017 018

Further Note on Walker’s Ranch NH 04 02 1921 020 021

Dripping Fork Cave of the Platte NH 04 02 1921 022 023

Nebraska History Publications NH 04 02 1921 024 029

Recollections of Judge Grimison NH 04 02 1921 030 030

Diary of William Dunn, Freighter NH 04 02 1921 031 031

Fort Atkinson Park NH 04 02 1921 032 032

Early Days in Sioux County NH 04 03 1921 034 037

Ancient Nebraska House Sites NH 04 03 1921 037 039

Women Editors of Nebraska NH 04 03 1921 039 040

World War Records NH 04 03 1921 040 041

“Trails of Yesterday” NH 04 03 1921 042 043

Judge Gaslin Stories NH 04 03 1921 043 045

Old Time “Carrier’s Address” NH 04 03 1921 046 047

How Long Ago Were Men in NH 04 03 1921 048 048 Nebraska

171 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Journey to Historical Sites in This article was the first of a series of NH 04 04 1921 053 060 Nebraska – Massacre Canyon short stories about contemporary excursions to historical sites in Nebraska. The participants in this trip to the last battlefield in the Sioux- Pawnee war were a Pawnee Indian scout captain, a veteran in the US Indian service, John W Williamson, who had been present at the Massacre, the curator of the Historical Society museum, and the editor of the publication. This brief article provides a unique perspective into the tragedy of August 5, 1873. Nebraska and Buffalo Bill in French NH 04 04 1921 060 060

Revenant Cheyenne (A) NH 04 04 1921 061 064

Married Sixty-Eight Years; War NH 03 01 1920 All All Relic; Fleharty Family in Ireland and Nebraska; First Newspaper west of the Missouri; History of the Sixty Infantry Regiment; Record of Base Hospital 49; Death of Ezra P Savage, Pioneer Editor; Final County, Total Nebraska Casualties in the war Fixed at 3,031;p Genesis of the Great seal of Nebraska; Nebraska State Flag and State seal; Superintendents of the Nebraska School for the Blind; Passing of the Nebraska Pioneer Grinnell Writes about the Pawnee; NH 03 02 1920 All All Reminiscences by Luther M North; Founder of Fort Atkinson; Land Where the Jonathans Grow; Death of H M Bushnell; Flags of the States; Passing of the Nebraska Pioneer April Blizzard, 1873; First Capital of NH 03 03 1920 All All Red Willow County; Nebraska Society Daughters of the American Revolution; Passing of the Nebraska

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Winnebago in Minnesota; Adventure NH 03 04 1920 All All of Walker’s Ranch; Small Historic Spot in Hamilton County; Letter from Captain Lute North; Good Templars in Nebraska; Old Records of the First State Wide Temperance Organization Recently Acquired by the Historical Society: What they Show of the Beginnings of the Dry Movement; Passing of the Nebraska Pioneer War Journey; History of Nebraska in NH 02 01 1919 All All the War, Overseas and at Home; Aid from Historical Society Members; First Nebraska Newspaper Files; Passing of Nebraska Pioneers, Men and Women Who made our State; From European Battlefields; Names of Men from our State Who Gave Their Lives in the World War; Fort Atkinson, or Council Bluffs Nebraska Centennial; Old Nebraska NH 02 02 1919 All All City Blockhouse Key; Pioneer Sioux County Newspapers; Base Hospital 49; Visit to the University of Nebraska Hospital Overseas; List of Officers and Enlisted Personnel; Ancient Pawnee Medal; Base Hospital No. 49, Nursing Personnel; O’Neill Land District; Early Settler’s Autobiography; Costly High living the Seventies; Wonderful Growth of the Telephone in Nebraska; John Clay Cowin; Antelope County Historian Passes on; Old Furnas Printing Press; North American Indian Languages; Charles McDonald County Bluff Historical Park; NH 02 03 1919 All All Pershing’s Wreath to Lafayette; George A Hunt; Fort Atkinson 173 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Centennial; Lewis and Clark Marker; County Memorial Buildings; Death of Mormon Historian; First Nebraska University Regents; Well Digging Relics; First Hall County Settlers; Related to John Colter; Nebraska Ambulances Nebraska—Home of Possible NH 02 04 1919 All All Presidents; Constitutional Convention History; Native Nebraska Food Plants; First Winter Wheat in Nebraska; diary of a Nebraska Freighter; History of Nebraska Agriculture; Nebraska Indian Callers; Major John G Maher War Collection; Three Military Heroes of Nebraska; Omaha charley; Nebraska Fuel Administration; Judge Samuel H Sedgwick; Buildings of Early Nebraska; A War Program Prehistoric and Indian Remains in NH 01 01 1918 All All Nebraska; Church Howe; Farmer’s Part in Nebraska History; Nebraska in War Time; General John J Pershing; First War on the Nebraska Frontier; Nebraska History Plans in Nebraska Sergeant Anderson of Funston; Frank NH 01 02 1918 All All Rosewater’s “Golden Age” History and Patriotism; Study of Nebraska History in Nebraska Schools; Who Started the War?; Present Day Nebraska History; Burt County History; Fort Kearny Flagstaff; Nebraska and the Mexican War; Thurston County History; Nebraska House of Representatives Service Flag; Free Homestead colony reunion; Platte River; Spanish Names; Douglas County Pioneers; in Howard County Now and Then; Historical Material in NH 01 03 1918 All All Nemaha County; John Brown’s Visits 04 to Nebraska; Old Beatrice Newspaper; 174 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Nebraska Patriots and the civil War; Blockhouse at Tekamah; Early Episcopal Parish; Death of Omaha’s Oldest Pioneer; Aspinwall and Nemaha City; When A M Medley Came West; Daniel C C Cole and Peru; Dr Jetus Riggs Conkling; John Q Goss Passes on; First U P Mileage Book; John Bratt, North Platte Pioneer; Mrs Ada Buck Martin; Time of the Sioux Indian War and Building of Union Pacific; Oak Grove Monument; First Railroad Excursion to Nebraska; Old Station Agent; First Real Estate Agents’ Union Prices; Nebraska’s First Educator; Hon Herbert P Shumway; Tales of Strong Men and women; William B Lee, Pioneer; Nebraska History; Red Willow Pioneer; Mary L McKenzie Keyser; Pioneers of Richardson County; Story of How the Real Estaters Organized; Sarpy County Reunion Tribal Relation of Logan Fontenelle; NH 01 05 1918 All All Indian Fight on the Little Blue; First Settlements in the Republican Valley; French in Nebraska; Oregon Promises Nebraska Reminiscences Old Battlefield Near Broken Bow; NH 01 06 1918 All All Custer County Camp Site; Grave of a Settler on the Oregon Trail; Reminder of Nebraska’s Troubled Beginning; Passing of the Nebraska Pioneer; Early Fur Trader Dies Sheldon in Europe; Father Christian NH 01 07 1918 All All Hoecken; Owner of Gibbon Town Site Dies; Charles McDonald; French Settlement at Julian; Tombstone Inscriptions; Passing of the Nebraska Pioneer; Death of Frank Helvey; 175 First Last Suffix Role Title Remarks Pub Vol Issue Year 1st Last Name Name Page Page Nebraska Public Schools in 1860-61; “Stone Church”; Holt County’s First Safe Legal Residence of Nebraska NH 01 08 1918 All All Governors; Fort Mitchell Cemetery; Passing of the Nebraska Pioneer; Death of Notable Pioneer; Red Cloud Agency Buildings

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