Nebraska moments /

Nebraska moments /

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Author / Creator:Hickey, Donald R., 1944-
Edition:New ed.
Imprint:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (xix, 403 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Subject:
Nebraska -- History.
Nebraska -- History -- Anecdotes.
Nebraska.
Anecdotes.
History.
Electronic book.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11157133
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Other authors / contributors:Wunder, Susan A.
Wunder, John R.
ISBN:9780803215726
080321572X
9780803260399
0803260393
1281092452
9781281092458
9786611092450
6611092455
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:"A Bison original"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes index.
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Summary:An account of defining Nebraska moments, including: surviving the Oregon and Mormon trails; completing the Union Pacific Railroad; and winning national football championships, Nobel and Pulitzer prices, and presidential nominations.
Other form:Print version: Hickey, Donald R., 1944- Nebraska moments. New ed. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007 9780803260399 0803260393
Govt.docs classification:U5001 T265 -2007
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Timeline of Nebraska Moments; Preface; 1. The Villasur Expedition; 2. Old Bellevue; 3. The Oregon Trail; 4. The Kansas-Nebraska Act; 5. The Pony Express; 6. Daniel Freeman and Homesteading; 7. Nebraska Statehood and Its First Governor; 8. The Fight for the Capital; 9. Red Cloud and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868; 10. The Union Pacific Railroad; 11. The Murder of Crazy Horse at Fort Robinson; 12. The Trial of Standing Bear; 13. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and the Wild West Show; 14. The Great Nebraska Migration; 15. J. Sterling Morton and Arbor Day
  • 16. The Blizzard of '88 17. William Jennings Bryan and Agrarian Protest; 18. The Rise of Omaha; 19. Charles E. Bessey and the Nebraska National Forest; 20. Gen. John J. Pershing and World War I; 21. Fr. Edward Flanagan, the Abbott Sisters, and Nebraska's Children; 22. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and Nebraska's Doctors; 23. Meyer v. Nebraska (1923); 24. Willa Cather and Her Pulitzer Prize; 25. The Nebraska State Capitol, Great Plains Icon; 26. Nebraska's Would-be Vice Presidents; 27. The Pound Family; 28. Nebraska's Literary Renaissance; 29. George W. Norris and the Unicameral
  • 30. The Nebraska Home Front and World War 1131. Nebraska's Visual Feast; 32. Nebraska's Scientists; 33. Offutt Air Force Base; 34. The Ogallala Aquifer; 35. Omaha's Gerald Ford and Malcolm X; 36. Becoming Madam Governor; 37. The University of Nebraska Football Champions; 38. The Murder of Brandon Teena; 39. The Kearney Arch; Index

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