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 Fall, 2007

Nebraska Women Artists, 1880-1950 - Sharon L. Kennedy

Highly talented, quietly indomitable, but still largely overlooked in the history of art in Nebraska, twelve nineteenth and early twentieth century women left an enduring artistic legacy and greatly influenced the arts in this young prairie state.

Capturing the Lakota Spirit - Ephriam D. Dickson III

In the late nineteenth century the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indian Agencies in northwestern Nebraska were distant, remote, and inhabited by exotic people -- exactly what some photographers were looking for.

A Ballad on Nebraska Fuel - R. W. L.

. . .the time-honored cow chips, the homesteader's cow chips, the fume-giving cow chips that drop to the ground. . .

Bad Grammar and Sensation Style - Patricia C. Gaster

A wet Nebraska or a dry one? These days it's a question of weather, but in 1890 it was whether or not to permit the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The Omaha Bumble Bee was emphatically dry.

Tools of Ethnic Edentity - Raymond Screws

The "melting pot" view of American society may hold some truth, but settlements of Czechs and Swedes established in Saunders County, Nebraska, between 1870 and 1910 were surprisingly slow to melt.

From McCook to Whispering Smith - Tom White

Frank H. Spearman is seldom read today, but shaped by his years in McCook, he wrote rip-roaring railroad adventure stories that thrilled readers nationwide at the turn of the last century.

Nebraska's Libraries at War, 1917-1919 - Oliver Pollak

"To be better fighters and better Americans" was the reason the doughboys of World War I needed books, said the Library War Service, and Nebraskans pitched in, helping the nation send seven million books to the troops.

Petroleum, Politics, and Prices: Omaha's Gas War of 1924 - L. Robert Puschendorf

Outrage at high gas prices isn't new -- 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.

Standard Oil's "Bungalow" Filling Stations - L. Robert Puschendorf

The first filling stations were a far cry 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. . .

Putting Boyd County on the Map: Adjusting Nebraska's Northern Boundary - James E. Potter

It took a blunder in drafting a famous Indian treaty, a "pernicious example" of government bad faith toward the Poncas, and an act of Congress to complete Nebraska's boundary as we know it today.

Bold and Daring: The Lone Oak - David Murphy

Its modern facade hiding "biomass" materials, this structure west of Lincoln is an innovative transition from a simple building technique to a sophisticated construction technology.

Tragedy at the Lone Oak - John Carter

Tangled lives, mysterious deaths, and bickering families make the history of the Lone Oak's owners as fascinating as the building itself.

Wallace Cadet Taylor and the Last U.S. Volunteers - Thomas D. Thiessen

A dashing officer who distinguished himself in the Spanish-American and Philippine wars, this Nebraska volunteer's career traces important steps in the evolution of the "citizen soldier."

 

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