Nebraska History Quarterly, Volume 74, 1993

Fall/Winter 1993 Vol. 74, Nos. 3&4: Out of Stock!
On the Cover:
Detail from the proscenium curtain in the National Hall built by ZCBJ lodge Slavin 112 near Ord, Nebraska. It shows the Hradcany or Prague Castle in the capital of the Czech Republic, as seen from the Mala Strana or Lesser Town below. The curtain is one of many in Czech theatres throughout Nebraska that depict symbolic scenes important in Czech history and culture (P. Michael Whye, NSHS C998.1-428)

Special Issue:
The Czech-American Experience
Guest Editor: Bruce M. Garver
Illustrations Editor: David Murphy

Foreword
By Lawrence J. Sommer

Introduction
By Bruce M. Garver

Czech-Americans: The Love of Liberty
By Joseph G. Svoboda

Problems in the History of Czech Immigration to America in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
By Josef Opatrny

Slovak Immigration to the United States in Light of American, Czech, and Slovak History
By Gregory C. Ference

German and Czech Immigration to Texas: The Bremen to Galveston Route, 1880-1886
By Lawrence H. Konecny and Clinton Machann

Czech Political Refugees in the United States during the Nineteenth Century
By Zdenek Solle

Czech-American Protestants: A Minority within a Minority
By Bruce M. Garver

Dramatic Expressions: Czech Theatre Curtains in Nebraska
By David Murphy

Evidence of Assimilation in Pavel Albieri's Nevesta za padesat dollaru (Bride For Fifty Dollars)
By Clinton Machann

Relationships between Czechs and Slovaks in the United States during the First World War
By Karel Pichlik

Czech-Americans: An Ethnic Dilemma
By Ivan Dubovicky

Czech Language Maintenance in Nebraska
By Mila Saskova-Pierce

Czech-American Immigration: Some Historiographical Observations
By Frederick C. Luebke

Acknowledgements

Summer 1993 Vol. 74, No. 2: Sold Out!
On the Cover:
This Frederick Remington drawing, Captain Dodge's Colored Troops to the Rescue, appeared in Century Magazine in October 1891 (Courtesy of Frederick Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York)

One Soldier's Service: Caleb Benson in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, 1875-1908
By Thomas R. Buecker

Bess Furman, Nebraska's Front Page Girl: Her Formative Years
By Liz Watts

Spending the Indians' Money: A Quantitative Case Study of Oto-Missouri Trust Fund Disbursements, 1855-1881
By Daniel W. Overton

Steamboat Captain David L. Keiser's Recollections of Life on the Missouri
Edited by Carl Hugh Jones

Spring 1993 Vol. 74, No. 1 $1.00
On the Cover:
Detail from a replica of a hide painting depicting the 1720 defeat of a Spanish army under Pedro de Villasur near the present site of Columbus, Nebraska. The army, sent from Santa Fe to investigate French activity on the Plains, was attacked by Pawnee and Oto Indians. The more than seventeen-foot-long painting is the oldest known of a Nebraska scene. The exact reproduction was painted by Nebraska State Historical Society staff artist Curt Peacock. The original painting is now in Santa Fe in the Museum of New Mexico.

Spain on the Plains
By James A. Hanson

A Nebraska Cavalryman in Dixie: The Letters of Martin Stowell
By James E. Potter

Nebraska's World War II Bomber Plant: The Glenn L. Martin-Nebraska Company
By George A. Larson

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