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First Name	Last Name	Suffix	Role	Title	Remarks	Pub	Vol	Issue	Year	1^st Page	Last Page
Mary Ellen Elaine Rebecca	Ducey Nowick Bernthal		Author Author Author	Frank H Shoemaker, Self-Made Naturalist and Photographer EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Through photography and extensive field notes, Shoemaker created a significant record of Nebraska landscapes, flora, and fauna during the early twentieth century.	NH	94	01	2013	002	019
Bill	Av ery		Author	Folkways of a One-House Legislature EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	The Nebraska Unicameral has two sets of rules that govern how its members behave, one written and the other unwritten "folkways".	NH	94	01	2013	020	027
Mary Ann	May-Pumphrey		Author	"Send a Valentine to Your Valentine from Valentine, Nebraska": The Cachet Program EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	In 1941, the Valentine Post Office introduced a special Valentine's Day postal cachet inspired by the town's name.	NH	94	01	2013	028	035
Dan	Holtz		Author	The Folk Songs of Great Plains Homesteading: Anthems, Laments, and Political Songs EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Homesteading songs illustrate the mindset of settlers, expressing their hopes, hardships, and demands for political action.	NH	94	01	2013	036	045
				P.S. Hammer Gang EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE		NH	94	01	2013	052	052
Deb	Arenz		Author	Illustrator's Pencil (The): John Falter from Nebraska to the Saturday Evening Post EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Born in Plattsmouth and raised in Falls City, John Falter became one of the nation's most successful illustrators because he knew how to capture the spirit of the times. His illustrations for ads, articles, and magazine covers provide a window into mid-twentieth century American culture.	NH	93	01	2012	002	027
Chris	Rasmussen		Author	Vox Populi of Omaha: Todd Storz and the Top 40 Radio Format in American Culture EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Omaha radio station owner Todd Storz played a key role in pioneering the Top 40 format in the 1950s. He was a figure of national significance, permanently changing radio programming with an approach that was "vibrantly populist, crassly commercial, and undeniably young."	NH	93	01	2012	028	045
Daniel D	Spegel		Author	"Big, Ugly Red Brick Buildings": The Fight to Save Jobbers Canyon EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Omaha city leaders touted the Jobbers Canyon warehouse district as a key to downtown redevelopment, before ConAgra decided it wanted the land. Thus ensued the largest-ever demolition of a district listed on the National Register of Historic Places	NH	93	02	2012	054	083
Nick	Batter		Author	Shoulders of Atlas (The): Rural Communities and Nuclear Missile Base Construction in Nebraska, 1958-1962 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Base construction for America's first intercontinental ballistic missile, the atlas, pushed several rural Nebraska communities to the front lines of the Cold War, bringing needed jobs, but also drawing protestors c contesting the nuclear program.	NH	93	02	2012	084	101
John T	Bauer		Author	Gliddenites are Coming (The)! Nebraska and the 1909 Glidden Tour EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	In July 1909, Nebraskans witnessed firsthand the most popular and spectacular Glidden Tour. This multi-state driving tour was not a race; it was a reliability run meant to challenge the driving skills of early automobilists and the reliability of their machines. The event promoted the automobile as a practical and desirable means of travel-a message that Nebraskans were already primed to accept.	NH	93	03	2012	110	125
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	Kate Martin and Lincoln's Historic St Charles Hotel EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Located in what is now known as Lincoln's Haymarket District, the St. Charles Hotel served city residents and the traveling public from the 1860s until 1918, during which time Lincoln grew from a frontier settlement to a mature capital city. The hotel's story is intertwined with that of Catherine "Kate" Martin, an Irish immigrant whose career spanned four decades, three husbands, and two fires.	NH	93	03	2012	126	137
James E	Potter		Author	"Wearing the Hempen Neck-Tie": Lynching in Nebraska EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Whether the victims were accused of horse theft, murder, or rape, lynching is often viewed as frontier vigilantism that operated before the establishment of courts and law enforcement. This notion, however, does not square with the historical record of the more than fifty Nebraskans who died at the hands of lynch mobs.	NH	93	03	2012	138	153
Tina	Koeppe		Author	Best-Dressed Doll in the World (The): Nebraska's Own Terri Lee EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Founded and run by women, the Terri Lee Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, was ahead of its time, introducing plastic dolls, including several black dolls, as early as 1947. With high-quality production standards and clever marketing materials that promoted Terri Lee as a companion and not just a doll, the toy caught the hearts and imaginations of little girls in a revolutionary way.	NH	93	04	2012	162	181
Amanda N	Johnson		Author	Illuminating the west: The Wonder of Electric Lighting at Omaha's Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Electric lighting was as important to the Omaha fair as the Ferris Wheel was to Chicago’s 1893 Columbian Exposition: a focal point that garnered publicity and gate receipts while demonstrating the West’s technological and economic progress. The fair’s extensive use of outdoor incandescent lighting was unprecedented and an object of wonder to fairgoers.	NH	93	04	2012	182	191
Mark Larry	Smith Walklin		Author Author	Early Years of Talk Radio (The): WJAG, Norfolk, Nebraska EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Political talk dominates the AM airwaves today, but in 1946 and 1947, Norfolk station WJAG found its broadcast license in jeopardy due to controversial on-air commentary.	NH	92	01	2011	002	013
Jo L Wetherilt	Behrens		Author	“Painting the Town”: How Merchants Marked the Visual Arts to Nineteenth-Century Omahans EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	How does one build an art community in a frontier town? As Omaha grew, local merchants used their wealth and influence to promote art appreciation and the concept of art patronage.	NH	92	01	2011	014	039
David Royce	Murphy		Author	Art of the Panorama (The) EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Panoramic art came to Omaha in the 1880s, but it had earlier connections to Nebraska and the Great Plains	NH	92	01	2011	040	041
Thomas	Irvin		Author	Political and Journalistic Battles to Create Nebraska’s Unicameral Legislature (The) EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Though Senator George Norris was the unicameral’s best-known promoter, he had important allies during the campaign of 1934	NH	92	01	2011	042	049
David Delbert	Kruger		Author	Main Street Empire: J C Penney in Nebraska	By the late 1920s J C Penney had stores in more than fifty Nebraska communities – more than any retailer before or since.	NH	92	02	2011	054	069
Martha H	Fitzgerald		Author	Courtship of Two Doctors: 1930s Letters Spotlight Nebraska Medical Training EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Joe Holoubek and Alice Baker trained in Omaha and New Orleans.  Their correspondence reveals the risks and day-to-day triumphs of 1930s medicine.	NH	92	02	2011	070	077
				Postcards from Long Pine EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Picture postcards from Nebraska’s Hidden Paradise provide glimpses of recreational travel in the 1910s and 1920s.	NH	92	02	2011	078	081
Rebecca A	Buller		Author	Intersections of Place, Time, and Entertainment in Nebraska’s Hidden Paradise EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Hidden Paradise, located in a forested canyon at Long Pine, drew travelers by rail and automobile to enjoy a mixture of outdoor recreation and live entertainment in the early-to-mid twentieth century.	NH	92	02	2011	082	095
Jesse J	Otto		Author	Dan Desdunes: New Orleans Civil Rights Activist and “The Father of Negro Musicians of Omaha” EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Dan Desdunes lived a remarkable life as a bandleader, educator, and civil rights activist. In his native New 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.	NH	92	03	2011	106	117
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	Nebraska Statesman (The): The People Behind the Picture EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	An iconic Solomon Butcher photograph portrays a frontier 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.	NH	92	03	2011	118	123
David R	Christensen		Author	“I Don’t Know What We’d Have Done Without the Indians”: Non-Indian and Lakota Racial Relationships in Box Butte County’s Potato Industry, 1917-1960 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	A labor shortage during World War I left western Nebraska potato farmers facing the loss of their crop. They brought in Lakota (Sioux) Indians as harvesters, beginning a tradition that 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.	NH	92	03	2011	124	147
James E	Potter		Author	Horses: The Army's Achilles' Heel in the Civil War Plains Campaigns of 1864-1865 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Civil War armies relied heavily on horses. Armies in the field equipped with artillery, cavalry, and supply trains required one horse or mule, on 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.	NH	92	04	2011	158	169
Kristin	Mapel Bloomberg		Author	"How shall We Make Beatrice Grow!" Clara Bewick Colby and the Beatrice Public Library Association in the 1870s EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	For a young frontier town like Beatrice, a library wasn't just about books. It was also a means for propagating social values, and it created pathways for women to exercise leadership in the community. The town's first privately funded library faced challenges of censorship, public indifference, and competition from an unexpected rival.	NH	92	04	2011	170	183
Todd	Guenther		Author	"The Kingdom of Heaven at Hand": Rev. Russel Taylor and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1920s Omaha EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	In the racially charged atmosphere of 1920s Omaha, Russel Taylor-a minister, teacher, musician, activist, and former homesteader-threw 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.	NH	92	04	2011	184	193
John D	McDermott		Author	Plains Forts (The): A Harsh Environment EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	The United States Army had an almost impossible task to perform 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.	NH	91	01	2010	002	015
August James E Edith Edith	Scherneckau Potter Robbins Robbins		Editor Editor Editor Translator	Soldiering in the Platte Valley, 1865: A Nebraska Cavalryman’s Diary EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	After serving in Missouri and Arkansas in the Civil War, the First Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry was 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.	NH	91	01	2010	016	051
David L	Bristow		Author	Post Script: Taking the Census 100 Years Ago		NH	91	01	2010	052	052
Thomas R	Buecker		Author	Letters from Home: Prisoner of War Mail at the Fort Robinson Camp during World War II EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	A 1943 envelope illustrates the long and complicated process of sending and receiving mail between Nazi Germany and the Fort Prisoner of War Camp in Nebraska.	NH	91	02	2010	058	065
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	Signing the Pledge: George B Skinner and the Red Ribbon Club of Lincoln EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE		NH	91	02	2010	066	079
Paul L	Hedren		Author	Camp Sheridan, Nebraska: The Uncommonly Quiet Post on Beaver Creek	Camp Robinson and Camp Sheridan, both founded in 1874, had much in 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.	NH	91	02	2010	080	093
Russ	Crawford		Author	Nebraska Football and Michael Oriard’s Bowled Over: A Review Essay EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	A recent book examines the politics and social changes of big-time college football during the past fifty years. Our reviewer examines issues of race, power, and money in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s storied football program.	NH	91	02	2010	102	111
				Post Script: Willa Cather: A Matter of Appearances		NH	91	02	2010	112	112
				Contents	African Americans in Nebraska: A Special Double Issue	NH	91	03	2010	113	113
David	Bristow			Introduction	African Americans in Nebraska: A Special Double Issue	NH	91	03	2010	114	115
James E	Potter		Author	“Equality Before the Law”: Thoughts on the Origin of Nebraska’s State Motto	African Americans in Nebraska: A Special Double Issue	NH	91	03 04	2010	116	121
Tekla Ali John R Abigail B	Johnson Wunder Anderson		Author	Always on My Mind: Frederick Douglass’s Nebraska Sister	African Americans in Nebraska: A Special Double Issue	NH	91	03 04	2010	122	135
David J Peavler	Trowbridge		Author	“A Double Mixture”: Equality and Economy in the Integration of Nebraska Schools, 1858-1883	African Americans in Nebraska: A Special Double Issue	NH	91	03 04	2010	136	151
Orville D	Menard		Author	Lest We Forget: The Lynching of Will Brown, Omaha’s 1919 Race Riot	African Americans in Nebraska: A Special Double Issue	NH	91	03 04	2010	152	165
Jennifer	Hildebrand		Author	New Negro Movement in Lincoln, Nebraska (The)	African Americans in Nebraska: A Special Double Issue	NH	91	03 04	2010	166	189
Amy Helene	Forss		Author	Mildred Brown and the De Porres Club: Collective Activism in Omaha, Nebraska’s Near North Side, 1947-1960	African Americans in Nebraska: A Special Double Issue	NH	91	03 04	2010	190	205
				Postscript: Mocking the Klan	African Americans in Nebraska: A Special Double Issue	NH	91	03 04	2010	220	220
				“Out here among the infernal Red skins”: Frank Appleton’s 1874 Letter from Red Cloud Agency	Appleton, a young clerk at the Red Cloud Agency, wrote to his family just weeks before he was fatally shot by a Minneconjou warrior.  His letter describes an Indian dance that he had seen and begs for news of family and friends.	NH	90	01	2009	002	004
				The Clay County Pig Club Song, 1922	Club members sang the praises of modern hog farming practices	NH	90	01	2009	005	005
John A	Sautter		Author	Social Transformation and the Farmers’ Alliance Experience: Populism in Saunders County, Nebraska EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Drought and depression led to radical politics in 1890s Nebraska. Saunders County didn’t fit the typical profile, but became a Populist stronghold thanks to its robust Farmers’ Alliance culture.	NH	90	01	2009	006	021
Daniel D	Spegel		Author	The Missouri National Recreational River: An Unlikely Alliance of Landowners and Conservationists EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	In 1978 lawmakers hailed a fragile alliance of landowners and conservationists who sought to protect a rare “natural” stretch of the Missouri River. The result was not what they expected.	NH	90	01	2009	022	041
Oliver B	Pollak		Author	Looking for “Wide-Awake” Young People: Commercial Business Colleges in Nebraska, 1873-1950 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	High schools taught no office skills. Colleges taught the classics. By the late nineteenth century, entrepreneurs founded business colleges as an alternative to both.	NH	90	01	2009	042	050
James E	Potter		Author	Post Script:  “Bert” Martin’s Little Secret		NH	90	01	2009	056	056
Jill	Koelling		Author	Collecting Parks EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Edward and Margaret Gehrke’s photographs and travel diaries are an important source documenting early travel to America’s national parks.	NH	90	02	2009	058	065
John Curtis John E	Jenkins Carter		Author Introduction	The National Game at Cody EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Did a legendary Sandhills baseball 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 on real people and real events…with some improvements	NH	90	02	2009	066	081
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	Growing Celery in the Platte Valley EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	A brief look at a forgotten experiment in Nebraska agriculture	NH	90	02	2009	082	083
Kristin Mapel	Bloomberg		Author	“Striving for Equal Rights for All”: Woman Suffrage in Nebraska 1855-1882	Three times in the nineteenth century Nebraska considered granting full 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.	NH	90	02	2009	084	103
				Post Script: Tom Mix in Omaha		NH	90	02	2009	112	112
Anne Beiser	Allen		Author	A Scandal in Niobrara: The Controversial Career of Rev Samuel D Hinman	The Reverend Samuel Dutton Hinman served for seventeen years as an 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	NH	90	03	2009	114	129
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	Locating Callaway EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Founded in 1885, Callaway in Custer County experienced one of the hardest-fought town site battles in central Nebraska.	NH	90	03	2009	130	131
Jeff	Patrick		Editor	From Civilian Life to Army Life: Fred Pickering’s World War I Narrative EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Though many Nebraskans served in the Great War, we have few war 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.	NH	90	03	2009	132	161
				Post Script: The State Fair in Lincoln		NH	90	03	2009	168	168
Kylie	Kinley		Author	Growing up on the Farm: Nebraska Farmer Youth Pages, 1904-1965 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Nebraska Farmer magazine was the only outlet most rural Nebraska 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.	NH	90	04	2009	170	179
Tina	Koeppe		Author	“Omaha Charley” and the Bristol Collection of Native American Artifacts	During the 1870s-1890s “Omaha Charley” Bristol traveled the dime 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.	NH	90	04	2009	180	189
Janet R Daly	Bednarek		Author	Creating an “Image Center”: Reimagining Omaha’s Downtown and Riverfront, 1986-2003 EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	In 1986 downtown Omaha saw the loss of one major employer (Enron) and was facing the potential loss of 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.	NH	90	04	2009	190	207
Deb	Arenz		Author	For the People: Nebraska’s New Deal Art EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	During a time of economic crisis, the federal government commissioned works of art that reflected the “American Scene.” Here are selected works from a current exhibit at the Nebraska History Museum.	NH	90	04	2009	208	211
David L	Bristow		Author	Post Script: A Western Nebraska Road Trip		NH	90	04	2009	232	232
L Robert	Puschendorf		Author	The Halls of Hallmark: The Nebraska Years	The Hall brothers’ formative years in Nebraska, and those of the youngest brother, Joyce Hall, became the inspiration that brought him success as the founder of Hallmark Cards, Inc., the world’s foremost supplier of greeting cards.	NH	89	01	2008	002	013
Dennis N	Mihelich		Author	From the Depths: Prince Hall Masonry in Nebraska, 1930-1960	Prince Hall Masonry is an African 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.	NH	89	01	2008	014	025
James E	Potter		Author	The Governor’s House, the People’s House: Nebraska Governors’ Residences	The idea that Nebraska should provide living quarters for its governors was 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.	NH	89	01	2008	026	041
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 Steamboat El Paso (The)	While the El Paso was a real steamboat, her alleged Platte River trip was a myth.	NH	89	02	2008	054	066
Roger P	Davis		Author	“Service not Power”: The Early Years of the Nebraska Commission on Mexican-Americans, 1971-1975	Political and social changes after World War II eventually resulted in 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.	NH	89	02	2008	067	083
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	A Fallen Victim to “the Liquor Curse”: The Life and Tragic Death of Samuel D Cox	The 1906 murder of a well-known newspaperman and temperance advocate may have been a factor in the adoption of restrictions on saloons and alcohol consumption in Nebraska.	NH	89	02	2008	084	093
James E	Potter		Author	Post Script: Mr Bryan’s Day in the Sun		NH	89	02	2008	100	100
Vicki	Howard		Author	The Rise and Fall of Rudge & Guenzel: From Independent Retailer to Department Store Chain EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Downtown department stores, such as Lincoln’s Rudge & Guenzel, seemed to be from another, more authentic world that has little in common with today’s commercial spaces.	NH	89	03	2008	102	119
Nathan B	Sanderson		Author	More Than a Potluck: Shared Meals and Community-Building in Rural Nebraska at the Turn of the Twentieth Century EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Shared meals were the cornerstone of events and celebrations in Nebraska’s early years, offering rural families a chance to gather, socialize, and escape the lonely drudgery that filled much of their lives.	NH	89	03	2008	120	131
John E	Carter		Author	The Platte River Road in 1866: Charles Savage’s Visual Narrative EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	In 1866 Charles Savage made the earliest known photograph of 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.	NH	89	03	2008	132	141
James E	Potter		Author	Post Script: The Chrisman Sisters		NH	89	03	2008	152	152
Alexandra M	Wagner		Author	Grasshoppered: America’s Response to the 1874 Rocky Mountain Locust Invasion EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	It was a plague of biblical proportions, influencing generations of federal agricultural policy.	NH	89	04	2008	154	167
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	“A 1914 Cartoon Calendar”: Drawings by Guy R Spencer EXCERPTS FROM THIS ISSUE	Longtime Omaha World-Herald cartoonist Guy Spencer displayed his wit and his unique style of drawing in a series of cartoons for every month of the year.	NH	89	04	2008	168	175
Todd	Guenther		Author	The Empire Builders: An African American Odyssey in Nebraska and Wyoming	This article provides vivid details of ex-slave African American families 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 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.	NH	89	04	2008	176	200
James E	Potter		Author	Post Script: Dedicating Nebraska’s Lincoln Memorial, 1912		NH	89	04	2008	222	224
Ephriam D	Dickson	III	Author	Capturing the Lakota Spirit, Photographers at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Agencies	Nineteenth-century photographers specialized in portraits but also sold views of general interest.  On their way to take pictures of the Black Hills gold rush, eight hotographers 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.	NH	88	01 02	2007	002	025
L, R W				Ballad on Nebraska Fuel	This verse in praise of cow chips first appeared in the Hooker County Tribune (Mullen, Nebraska) in 1934.	NH	88	01 02	2007	026	027
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	Bad Grammar and Sensational Style, The Daily Bumble Bee and the Fight for Prohibition in 1890	Long before Nebraska ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the US 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.	NH	88	01 02	2007	028	041
Raymond	Screws		Author	Tools of Ethnic Identity	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.	NH	88	01 02	2007	042	054
Don	Cunningham		Author	Post Script: The Lincoln Flood of 1908		NH	88	02 02	2007	060	060
Sharon L	Kennedy		Author	Nebraska Women Artists, 1880 – 1950	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.	NH	88	03	2007	062	095
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 1950s Nebraska Town	Nebraskans, like other Americans, 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.	NH	88	04	2007	110	125
Lori	Cox-Paul		Author	John M Chivington “The Reverend Colonel” “Marry-Your-Daughter” “Sand Creek Massacres"	A famous military commander and preacher, Chivington was a very 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.	NH	88	04	2007	126 142	137  148
				The Long View: Reading a Photograph	Four historians and a photographer “read” two photographs—a panoramic from Garden County taken in 1917 and a modern-day equivalent.	NH	88	04	2007	138	141
Debra	Brownson		Author	Post Script: Everyone Come!		NH	88	04	2007	168	168
James E	Potter		Author	Putting Boyd County on the Map: Adjusting Nebraska’s Northern Boundary	The tragedy of the Ponca Indians led to Nebraska’s last significant land 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.	NH	87	01	2006	002	009
David	Murphy		Author	Bold and Daring: The Lone Oak	The Lone Oak building, five miles 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.	NH	87	01	2006	010	015
David	Murphy		Author	The Lone Oak – How Did They Do That?	This article contains an explanation of the straw bale structural system of the Lone Oak Building, built in 1944 six miles west of Lincoln, Nebraska.	NH	87	01	2006	016	017
John E	Carter		Author	Tragedy at the Lone Oak	On August 26, 1958, the owners of 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.	NH	87	01	2006	018	026
				Recommended by Duncan Hines. Isn’t that a Cake Mix?	Today the name Duncan Hines is 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.	NH	87	01	2006	027	027
Thomas D	Thiessen		Author	Wallace Cadet Taylor and the Last US Volunteers	This is the story of the military career 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.	NH	87	01	2006	028	043
John	Carter		Author	Post Script: Nebraska’s Straw Bale Church	This article presents a brief description of Pilgrim Holiness Church in Arthur, Nebraska, constructed of rye straw bales in 1927-1928.	NH	87	01	2006	052	052
L Robert	Puschendorf		Author	Petroleum, Politics, and Prices: Omaha’s Gas War of 1924	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	NH	87	02	2006	054	081
L Robert	Puschendorf		Author	Standard Oil’s “Bungalow” Filling Stations	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.	NH	87	02	2006	082	085
John	Carter		Author	Post Script: Gasahol—The First Time Around		NH	87	02	2006	096	096
Tom	White		Author	From McCook to Whispering Smith	Frank H Spearman, a prolific writer of 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.	NH	87	03	2006	098	119
Oliver	Pollak		Author	Nebraska’s Libraries at War, 1917-1919	In the First World War, Nebraska had 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.	NH	87	03	2006	120	132
Donald B	Cunningham		Author	Post Script: Ghost in the Camera (The)		NH	87	03	2006	140	140
Gottlieb F David Z Richard E	Oehler Smith Jensen		Author Author Editor	Visit to the Pawnee (A)	Two Pennsylvania members of the Church of the Brethren visited the 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.	NH	87	04	2006	142	172
John	Carter		Author	Post Script: Nebraska Corn Helps Win the War		NH	87	04	2006	192	192
Lewis O	Saum		Author	Good Die First (The): The Meteoric and Brief Career of O H Rothacker	In 1886 Ottomar H Rothacker of the Omaha Republican began a campaign of "slashing and murderous invective" aimed at the Omaha Bee and its fiery editor Edward Rosewater.	NH	86	01	2005	002	013
Joseph G	Rosa		Author	Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, and the Grand Buffalo Hunt at Niagara Falls	"Wild Bill" Hickok, billed as "the most celebrated Scout and Hunter of the Plains," began his show-business career in 1872 in Niagara Falls with a staged hunt and a few weary buffalo captured in Nebraska.	NH	86	01	2005	014	025
Tommy	Thompson		Author	Who Killed Maud Rubel? A Case of Black and White in Omaha, 1894	When a young white woman, Maud 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.	NH	86	01	2005	026	036
				Post Script: Wild Bill and Rock Creek Station		NH	86	01	2005	044	044
Melissa	Marsh		Author	Still the Old Marlene: Hollywood at the Fort Robinson Prisoner of War Camp	Could Hollywood help the War Department convince German prisoners to reject their country's Nazi regime and accept American style democracy without violating the Geneva Convention?	NH	86	02 03	2005	046	061
Steven J	Ramold		Author	“Altogether a Horrible Spectacle”: Public Executions in Nebraska, 1891	Four men convicted of violent murders committed between 1888 and 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.	NH	86	02 03	2005	062	077
				Come an’ Get It!	From a dozen cowboys at the chuck wagon to a chic 1953 housewife making cookies in her Lincoln kitchen, photographs from the NSHS archives show that eating is the most universal of cultural activities.	NH	86	02 03	2005	078	091
Michael	Kuzma		Author	Kicking the Habit: Nebraska’s 1905 Anti-Cigarette Law	Anti-smoking sentiment is in the air, but this is not the first time we've tried to kick the habit. In 1905 the state legislature enacted tobacco bans to protect Nebraskans' health and morals.	NH	86	02 03	2005	092	096
				Post Script: James C Olson, 1917-2005	Photo	NH	86	02 03	2005	108	108
Kathleen	Alonso		Author	3,937 Pounds of Letters: National Air Mail Week in Nebraska, May 1938	For one day in 1938, hundreds of Nebraska towns-from Chadron to Beatrice, Emerson to Bridgeport, with Ong and Elsie, Wauneta and Wilber in between- had direct airmail service.	NH	86	04	2005	110	123
John	Carter		Author	Landmarks on Paper	For Air Mail Week in 1938 more than two hundred Nebraska communities created their own commemorative designs for airmail envelopes, and the result is a study in local pride.	NH	86	04	2005	124	131
Liz	Watts		Author	Flying Newsboy Takes to the Air (The)	The McCook Daily Gazette was the first newspaper to deliver by air on a regular basis.  Harry D Strunk, publisher of the Gazette, adopted air delivery to increase recognition of the purchasing power of farm families, poor road conditions, rising postal rates, and the public’s fascination with aviation.	NH	86	04	2005	132	145
				Special Supplement to Nebraska History	Six nineteenth-century maps show the evolution of the shape of Nebraska.	NH	85	01	2004	001	001
Sandra K	Sagala		Author	Buffalo Bill Cody v Doc Carver: The Battle over the Wild West	Buffalo Bill Cody and Doc Carver were partners during the 1883 season of Cody and Carver’s Wild West, a touring outdoor western show. Their partnership dissolved after one year, and their bitter legal dispute over control of the name “Wild West” made them adversaries for the rest of their lives.	NH	85	01	2004	002	015
Oliver B	Pollak		Author	Write Soon: Small Stories from Penny Postcards	Postcards written between 1908 and 1949 feature pictures of Nebraska’s Carnegie libraries and messages that suggest the concerns of Nebraskans of that time.	NH	85	01	2004	016	023
Michael	De La Garza		Author	Lynching of Juan Gonzalez (The)	Omaha Police Detective Tom Ring 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.	NH	85	01	2004	024	037
Mark R	Ellis		Author	Hanging Out the Shingle: Nineteenth-Century Lawyers in Nebraska’s Platte Valley	The lawyers who were among the early settlers in the Platte Valley made important contributions as community builders. Their professional achievements contradict the notion that the Great Plains was a lawless region.	NH	85	01	2004	038	052
Richard E	Jensen		Editor	“One Thousand Miles from Home on the Wild Prairie”: Charles B Darwin’s 1849 Nebraska Diary	Darwin‟s diary recounts his 1849 trip from Tennessee to the gold mines of California, emphasizing his encounters with Indians, traders, and fur trappers. The section reproduced in this article extends from his arrival in western Iowa to his departure from Fort Laramie.	NH	85	02	2004	058	114
James A	Roeder		Author	One Hundred and Second Congress and the Niobrara Scenic River (The): Old Arguments, New Compromises	The Niobrara Scenic River Designation Act of 1991 ended a prolonged struggle between those who would have preferred to dam the river and those who saw it as an environmental treasure. The legislation sought to permanently preserve the Niobrara while protecting the interests of local landowners.	NH	85	03	2004	116	125
Donald B	Cunningham		Author	Niobrara Valley (The): A Biological Crossroads	In the central valley of the Niobrara River plant and animal species of all climatic zones overlap and hybridize.	NH	85	03	2004	126	127
James E	Potter		Author	Legend of Rawhide Revisited (The)	The Rawhide legend is associated 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.	NH	85	03	2004	128	139
Angelo J Robert P	Louisa Nash		Author Author	Growing Pains in the River City: The Development of Professional Baseball in Nineteenth-Century Omaha	Beginning in 1867, when a group of interested Omaha citizens met to form the Omaha Base Ball Club, organized baseball struggled to maintain itself in Nebraska as it did all over the country. Clubs and leagues came and went, battling indifferent management, inadequate financing, small audiences, and uneven performance.	NH	85	04	2004	148	155
Andrea I	Faling		Author	Local Heroes: Nebraska Hometown Baseball	Civil War veterans brought baseball with them on their westward migration to Nebraska. As this collection of photographs shows, most small towns could field a team of local players by the end of the nineteenth century.	NH	85	04	2004	156	171
Gregory	Bond		Author	Too Much Dirty Work: Race, Manliness, and Baseball in Gilded Age Nebraska	In 1892, the Nebraska State League for baseball was partially integrated. 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.	NH	85	04	2004	172	185
Jeffrey	Powers-Beck		Author	Role New to the Race (A): A New History of the Nebraska Indians	The Nebraska Indians baseball team 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.	NH	85	04	2004	186	203
David	Murphy		Author	Old Cuts in New Wood, Traditional Czech Carpentry in the Central Great Plains	Early Czech farmers in Nebraska used the construction techniques of their Central European ancestors. Meticulous execution characterizes their carpentry.	NH	84	01	2003	002	017
James E	Potter		Author	Twenty five More Years, The Nebraska State Historical Society, 1979 – 2003	Achievements of the Society in the period ending in 2003 include the construction of the permanent visitor center at Chimney Rock and important advances in conservation and digital imaging. A “Milestones” section at the end of the article lists historic properties, exhibitions, awards, publications, and members of the governing board.	NH	84	01	2003	018	035
Valerie Sherer Richard	Mathes Lowitt		Editor Editor	“I Plead for Them” An 1882 Letter from Alice Cunningham Fletcher to Senator Henry Dawes	Fletcher’s letter, based on her experience on the Omaha Reservation, recommends that the government 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.	NH	84	01	2003	036	041
James E	Potter		Author	A Cow on the Roof and a Bullet in the Head? A New Look at a Solomon D Butcher Photograph	Solomon D Butcher’s 1886 photograph of the Sylvester Rawding homestead at West Union, Custer County, Nebraska, has appeared many times.  This article delves into more minute details now evident with digital scanning technology.	NH	84	01	2003	042	047
				Recovered Views: African American Portraits, 1912 – 1925	The editor’s note and an introductory 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.”	NH	84	02	2003	059	114
				African American Resources at the Nebraska State Historical Society	This list includes the Historical 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.	NH	84	02	2003	115	116
Randolph W	Baxter		Author	Homo-Hunting in the Early Cold War: Senator Kenneth Wherry and the Homophobic Side of McCarthyism	During the 1940s, fears of sexual “perversions” in America grew markedly. These fears spilled over into the political realm.  Joseph McCarthy and his fellow Nebraska Republican Kenneth Wherry figured prominently in this historic movement.	NH	84	03	2003	118	132
Jonathan P	Herzog		Author	Our Sacred Lithuanian Word: St Anthony’s Thirst for Cultural Homogeneity	South Omaha’s Lithuanian immigrant families wanted their church preserve their ethnic heritage. They accordingly forced their bishop to accept Lithuanian replacements for St. Anthony’s Polish pastor and the Ursuline Sisters who had served at the parish school.	NH	84	03	2003	133	141
Tommy R	Thompson		Author	John D Brady, the Philippine-American War, and the Martial Spirit in Late 19^th Century America	John Brady volunteered in 1898 to join the First Nebraska Infantry Regiment, United States Volunteers. His journal and letters sent home to Nebraska during sixteen months in the Philippines reveal misgivings about the conduct of the war, however, and in later life he spoke out against militarism.	NH	84	03	2003	142	153
James E	Potter		Author	Nebraska History on Nebraska Territory: A Reader’s Guide	The author describes twenty-nine Nebraska History articles concerning the Nebraska Territory. Topics discussed include the Territorial System and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Government and Politics, Economic and Social Development, Land Acquisition and Agriculture, Indians and Indian Affairs, Military Affairs, and Prelude to Statehood.	NH	84	04	2003	162	175
				A Governor’s Gallery: Chief Executives of Nebraska Territory, 1854-1867	Francis Burt, October 16-18, 1854; Thomas B Cuming (acting governor), October 18, 1854February 20, 1855; October 25, 1857-January 12, 1858; Mark W Izard, February 20, 1855-October 25, 1857; William A Richardson, January 12, 1858-December 5, 1858; Samuel W Black, May 2, 1859-May 14, 1861; Alvin Saunders, May 15, 1861-March 27, 1867	NH	84	04	2003	176	176
				Other Nebraska History Articles Relating to Nebraska Territory	This annotated bibliography includes Nebraska History articles on the territorial system and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, government and politics, economic and social development, land acquisition and agriculture, Indians and Indian affairs, military affairs, and the quest for statehood. There are also suggestions for further reading from other sources.	NH	84	04	2003	177	180
L Boyd	Finch		Author	Variegated Life of Norfolk’s’ Diamond Dick	Richard Tanner (1869-1943) travelled with a circus as a crack shot when he was a young man. Later he had a medical career in Norfolk and then recreated himself as “Diamond Dick,” a medicine show practitioner who claimed to have known all the famous characters of the Wild West.	NH	84	04	2003	181	193
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	“Straight Politics Pays After All”: Political Patronage and the Lincoln Post Office Fight, 1893 – 1894	A year-long battle over the appointment of a new Lincoln postmaster followed the election of Grover Cleveland. Eight major candidates supported by prominent Nebraska Democrats sought the position. At the last minute a previously unmentioned candidate with less service to the party emerged and won the job.	NH	84	04	2003	194	205
James	Potter		Editor	“Prairie Plow was at Work” (The): J Sterling Morton’s 1859 Address on Nebraska Agriculture	At Nebraska‟s first fair J Sterling Morton provided a personal view of the Territory‟s agricultural history. He condemned the financial speculation in town lots that had led to the panic of 1857 but proudly recounted the bountiful harvests that followed.	NH	84	04	2003	206	213
Dennis N	Mihelich		Author	Joslyns of Omaha: Opulence and Philanthropy	George and Sarah Joslyn were Nebraska’s wealthiest family in the early 1900s. Their lavish lifestyle was widely recognized. Their philanthropy, less well known in their time, still influences Omaha’s cultural life.	NH	83	01	2002	002	014
Jill Marie	Koelling		Author	Nebraska’s Lincoln Ambrotypes	Two Abraham Lincoln ambrotypes (in-camera original images) are housed in Nebraska. One portrait commemorates the day in 1858 when Lincoln won the acquittal of an accused murderer. The circumstances of the second ambrotype are less certain, but some scholars believe that it commemorates Lincoln’s nomination to run for president in 1860.	NH	83	01	2002	015	018
Kingsley M	Bray		Author	Spotted Tail and the Treaty of 1868	Spotted Tail worked from 1866 on to 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.	NH	83	01	2002	019	035
Richard	Vaughan		Author	“Broad are Nebraska’s Rolling Plains”, The Early Writings of George Bird Grinnell	In 1870 Grinnell joined a Yale professor on a summer expedition to collect fossils in the West. He returned to Nebraska repeatedly over sixty years, recording his experiences in many books and articles.	NH	83	01	2002	036	046
George Bird	Grinnell		Author	“Camp Life West of the Missouri”: Among the Sand Hills of Nebraska”	The fossil-hunting expedition that brought Grinnell to the Sand Hills in 1870 was the first of many trips recorded in his essays and books. This reminiscence contrasts the relative ease of travel into the West by train in Grinnell‟s time and the experience of emigrants bound for Utah or California just a few years earlier. [Published under pen name Ornis]	NH	83	01	2002	047	049
Andrew B	Wertheimer		Author	Admitting Nebraska’s Nisei: Japanese American Students at University of Nebraska, 1942 – 1945	Other universities initially refused to accept Japanese American students 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.	NH	83	02	2002	058	072
James E	Potter		Author	Fact and Folklore in the Story of “John Brown’s Cave” and the Underground Railroad in Nebraska	This article examines available evidence in order to determine the 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.	NH	83	02	2002	073	088
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	Robert W Furnas, Nebraska Press Recollections, and the Oldest Newspaper Controversy	Robert W Furnas’ publication Nebraska Press Recollections, a state 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 continuously published paper in the state: the Nebraska Advertiser [Brownville] or the Nebraska City News.	NH	83	02	2002	089	097
Jerome A	Greene		Author	Faces of War: Five Soldiers of General Crook’s Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition, 1876	A rare ferrotype shows five enlisted men who marched with Crook. Posing after the Starvation March, they wear a variety of uniform pieces and non-regulation civilian-style clothing in this portrait that commemorates their camaraderie during the Great Sioux War.	NH	83	02	2002	098	102
Harl	Dalstrom		Author	I’m Never Going to be Snowbound Again, The Winter of 1948 – 1949 in Nebraska	An examination of the effects of the winter of 1948 – 1949 in Nebraska illustrates key changes that took place in the state in the second half of the twentieth century.	NH	83	03 04	2002	109	166
Pamela	Riney-Kehrberg		Author	But What Kind of Work Do the Rest of you Do? Child Labor on Nebraska Farms, 1870-1920	Nebraska farm families were economic units, dependent upon the labor of children as well as adults. Children’s responsibilities ranged from simple daily chores to being the family’s primary farmers or housekeepers.	NH	82	01	2001	002	010
Patrick	Kennedy		Author	Nemaha County’s African American Community	The story of Nemaha County’s 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.	NH	82	01	2001	011	025
Dennis N	Mihelich		Author	George Joslyn, America’s First Media Mogul	George Joslyn gained national prominence by creating a virtual monopoly in the auxiliary printing business, supplying standardized, preprinted news to more than 12,000 newspapers in the United States.	NH	82	01	2001	026	037
Robert W	Larson		Author	Lakota Leaders and Government Agents: A Story of Changing Relationships	Led by determined chiefs like Red Cloud, Gall, and Crazy Horse, the 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.	NH	82	02	2001	047	057
Michael L	Tate		Author	Life Beyond Soldiering: Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Retirees	Many ex-soldiers remained in the West after separation from the army. Some established speculative enterprises, while others operated small businesses or ranches.	NH	82	02	2001	058	068
Jerome A	Greene		Author	Surrounding of Red Cloud and Red Leaf, 1876 (The): A Preemptive Maneuver of the Great Sioux War	Colonel Ranald S Mackenzie’s men encircled the villages of Red Cloud 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.	NH	82	02	2001	069	075
				Photographic Epilogue to the Great Sioux War (A)	In 1877 James H Hamilton 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.	NH	82	02	2001	076	081
William Henry Ellen F  Richard E	Tappan Tappan Jensen		Editor Editor Editor	“A great place for gambling whiskey drinking & roguery”, A Fort Childs Diary, 1848	The Missouri Mounted Volunteers invited a civilian artist, William Henry Tappan, to accompany them and 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, but also their buffalo hunts, games and entertainments, even a religious service.	NH	82	03	2001	090	121
Richard E	Jensen		Editor	Soldiers’ Letters from Fort Childs, 1848-49	This article includes letters from two 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.	NH	82	03	2001	122	129
William D	Lock		Author	“As Independent as We Wished”: Elizabeth Scott and Alice Fish of Blaine County, Nebraska	Scott and Fish ranched and lived together as partners for more than forty years, winning respect in their community. They experienced many of the successes and failures of early Plains settlement.	NH	82	04	2001	138	151
Fred W	Peterson		Author	Tradition, Style and Structure: the Anglo-American I-House in Nebraska	Features characteristic of the Gothic Revival Style appear in some traditional I-houses built in Nebraska between 1860 and 1900. Local builders introduced new methods and materials, however, creating a regional version of the I-house.	NH	82	04	2001	152	162
Timothy R	Mahoney		Author	Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of the Gilded Age (The)	The trial of Mary Sheedy and alleged co-conspirator “Monday” McFarland 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.	NH	82	04	2001	163	179
David J	Wishart		Author	Redemption of James Whitewater (The)	Convicted on circumstantial evidence of the murder of two white travelers in 1871, the Indian James Whitewater spent more than seventeen years in the Nebraska State Penitentiary. He eventually won release when the governor pardoned him in recognition of his good conduct while incarcerated.	NH	82	04	2001	180	189
Andrea	Radke		Author	I Am Very Aspiring: Muirl Dorrough and the Alliance Junior Normal School	Teachers in the small town schools of the West in the early years of the twentieth century were often young and inexperienced. Muirl Dorrough was more capable and devoted than many, and her attendance at the Alliance Junior Normal School increased her motivation and raised her standards.	NH	81	01	2000	002	011
Virginia Richard E	Foote Jensen		Editor Editor	“Enrout for Pikes Peak”: The 1860 Travel Diary of Gurdon P Lester	Lester, one of a number of Pike‟s Peak diarists, faithfully recorded his observations and experiences. His diary recounts the journey of eight Iowans who traveled across Nebraska Territory and into the Rocky Mountains in hopes of finding gold there. When he found no gold, he continued west to California.	NH	81	01	2000	012	022
Eric	Bachenberg		Author	Music from the Soil of the American Midwest: Howard Hanson, Educator, Composer, Conductor	Hanson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (1896-1981), attributed his musical inspiration to the Nebraska prairies where he grew up. Bachenberg provides biographical details and a selected list of recordings.	NH	81	01	2000	023	034
James E	Potter		Author	First Nebraska’s Orphan Detachment and the Skirmish at Grand Prairie, 1864	While the Skirmish at Grand Prairie had no material effect upon the course 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.	NH	81	01	2000	035	039
Richard E	Jensen		Editor	Editor’s Showcase: Love Letter from Pine Ridge	Henry Daum wrote to his sweetheart at Fort Robinson in 1890 while he was serving with the Eighth US Infantry at Pine Ridge Agency. He warned her not to believe what she might read in the papers about the Wounded Knee Massacre.	NH	81	01	2000	047	048
Jill	Koelling		Author	Revealing History: Another Look at the Solomon D Butcher Photographs	In 1998 the Nebraska State Historical Society began to generate digital images from the glass plate negatives of the famous Butcher photographs of homesteading on the Plains. The new digital images reveal details previously hidden in the shadowed areas of prints made from the negatives.	NH	81	02	2000	050	055
Jane A	Funderburk		Author	How Fashionable were Women Settlers in Custer County, Nebraska?: Maternity Wear on the Nebraska Frontier, 1886-1892	Solomon Butcher’s Custer County photographs include views of women settlers, even rare images of pregnant women. All the pioneer women pictured clearly made an effort to maintain a fashionable appearance.	NH	81	02	2000	056	066
Ludy T	Benjamin	Jr	Author	Platform Disaster: Harry Hollingworth and the Psychology of Public Speaking	Hollingworth, an experimental psychologist, used science to solve problems. An embarrassing failure as a public speaker at an important event early in his career led him to write a book on the psychology of audiences.	NH	81	02	2000	067	073
Mark	Smith		Author	Karl Stefan, WJAG, and the Congressional Campaign of 1934	The development of WJAG radio 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.	NH	81	02	2000	074	082
Gary E	Moulton		Author	Lewis and Clark on the Middle Missouri	Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Missouri between Sioux City, Iowa, and Pickstown, South Dakota, involved not only the terrain but also the plants and animals of the region. The Corps of Discovery also made its first contact with Sioux Indians during that part of its expedition.	NH	81	03	2000	090	105
Anne	DeCorey		Author	Edgar Beecher Bronson, Nebraska’s “Ranchman”	The author affirms that Bronson told readers the stories they expected to hear about the Wild West. His tall tales loosely related to actual events always featured Bronson as a character.	NH	81	03	2000	106	115
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	From Brownville to Bryan: Journalist James D Calhoun in Nebraska, 1869-1894	James D Calhoun spent twenty-five years, from 1869 to 1894, in southeast Nebraska working as a newspaperman and laboring in Democratic Party politics. Calhoun could delight his friends and readers with wonderful anecdotes, sometimes blurring reality and fiction.	NH	81	03	2000	116	127
James E	Potter		Editor	I Thought it my Duty to Go: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Edwin Keen, First Nebraska Volunteer Infantry	Twenty-two-year-old Thomas Edwin Keen, a Pennsylvania native, joined 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.	NH	81	04	2000	134	169
Tommy R	Thompson		Author	Wearin’ of the Green: The Irish and Saint Patrick’s Day in Omaha	Anti-Irish feeling in the mid-nineteenth century led Irish immigrants in Nebraska to celebrate St Patrick’s Day with parades, religious services, balls, and some rowdiness. By World War I most Americans had joined the celebration, happy to be considered Irish for a day.	NH	81	04	2000	170	178
Koelling	Jill Marie		Author	Editor’s Showcase: The Blizzard of the Century		NH	81	04	2000	185	185
Kent	Blaser		Author	Where is Nebraska, Anyway?	Blaser draws on historical, geographical, and literary sources for answers to the question “Where is Nebraska?” (Six other writers contribute their ideas in short articles that follow, and Blaser responds in a concluding article.)	NH	80	01	1999	003	014
Robert W	Richmond		Author	I Think I Know Where Nebraska Is	Richmond uses the terms West, Midwest, and Great Plains interchangeably to refer to Nebraska.	NH	80	01	1999	015	016
Susanne K	George		Author	Prairie State (The): Root-bound to Nebraska	Nebraska’s native grasses define the state, according to George. She traces attitudes toward the land in the works of Nebraska authors.	NH	80	01	1999	017	020
Fred	Thomas		Author	Nebraska: Midlands and Diversity	Thomas considers Nebraska a transitional area, the Midlands linking the Midwest and the Great Plains. The diversity of its landscapes, its population, and its occupational opportunities set Nebraska apart.	NH	80	01	1999	021	023
Phil	Roberts		Author	West of Time	Roberts sees two Nebraskas. Where the time zone changes, the traveler leaves the Midwest for the West.	NH	80	01	1999	024	025
Bradley H	Baltensperger		Author	Labels, Regions, and Reality	Baltensperger considers Nebraska a Midwestern state, first linked to Chicago and other cities by the railroads.	NH	80	01	1999	026	028
Michael	Farrell		Author	There is No Place Like Nebraska	Farrell describes his personal connections to Nebraska and concludes that the state is a collection of interrelated groups of people.	NH	80	01	1999	029	032
Kent	Blaser		Author	Closing Comments, but Not the Last Word	Blaser summarizes the common themes of a series of brief articles written in response to his earlier essay, “Where is Nebraska, Anyway?”	NH	80	01	1999	033	035
Lawrence E Aivars G Arjijs R	Murphy Ronis Liepins		Author Author Author	Karlis Ulmanis: From University of Nebraska Graduate to President of Latvia	Karlis Ulmanis studied and then taught briefly at the University of Nebraska as a Latvian refugee. As president of Latvia years later, he shared his enthusiasm for Nebraska traditions with citizens of his country.	NH	80	02	1999	046	054
Laura McKee	Hickman		Author	Thou Shalt Not Vote: Anti-Suffrage in Nebraska, 1914-1920	Nebraska was one of the last states 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 would support prohibition swayed many men.  Even some women opposed woman suffrage, dreading the social changes that might result.	NH	80	02	1999	055	065
Wendell W	Oderkirk		Author	“Peculiar and Valuable Service” (A): Early Nebraska Nurse Training Schools, 1888-1926	Early nurse training schools, created by hospitals, used haphazard curricula and exploited their students as a cheap work force. By 1940 the few remaining schools emphasized high professional standards.	NH	80	02	1999	066	079
Robert C	Pettit		Author	Editor’s Showcase: The Hay Burner Stove		NH	80	02	1999	088	091
David	Murphy		Author	Foreword: The Place of Time		NH	80	03	1999	094	094
R F	Diffendal	Jr	Author	Earth in Four Dimensions: Development of the Ideas of Geologic Time and History	Nebraska’s geologic history extends from rocks billions of years old buried beneath the surface to sediments accumulating today.	NH	80	03	1999	095	104
Janet L	Jeffries		Author	Spacing Time: The Time Ball at Doane College	The daily time ball descent at Doane College made it possible to synchronize local clocks to nationwide Standard Time. This was a sophisticated form of timekeeping in the nineteenth century.	NH	80	03	1999	105	108
Paul A	Olson		Author	Reading Space as Time in Great Plains Recollective Architecture	Space tells us about time. It demonstrates what time has done to the buildings of the past and shows what conceptions of time were important when the buildings were constructed.	NH	80	03	1999	109	122
Gene A	Thomsen		Author	Timing Space: Determining the Western Boundary of Nebraska	Oliver N Chaffee and his crew endured hardships during the survey of the western boundary of Nebraska. Despite those difficulties and the limitations of the surveying equipment of their day, they achieved remarkably accurate readings of time and distance.	NH	80	03	1999	123	128
David	Murphy		Author	Space, Time, and Spacetime	The long-held belief that space and time were independent entities has given way to a more realistic notion that the two are intertwined. The appearance and importance of any region tends to change over time. The spirit of an era both drives and reflects such changes in space.	NH	80	03	1999	129	140
Francis	Moul		Author	Biggest Partner (The): The Federal Government and Sioux County, Nebraska	The Federal government has invested significant resources in Sioux County 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	NH	80	04	1999	150	165
Oliver B	Pollak		Author	Fred Morrow Fling: A One-Hundred-Year Retrospective on Historical Methodology	Fling, who taught history at the University of Nebraska for more than forty years, led a drive to place better-qualified history teachers in high schools. He called for the introduction of a scientific historical method.	NH	80	04	1999	166	168
Mary Cochran	Grimes		Author	Adversity, Challenge, and Change: The Nebraska Board of Control During Governor Cochran’s Administration, 1935-1941	Nebraska’s penal, reform, and charitable institutions were all in need of restructuring in 1935. Governor Cochran appointed advocates of social welfare reform and long-term planning. He also applied for all available federal assistance.	NH	80	04	1999	169	177
Mary	Krugerud		Author	Dazzler’s Story	Dazzler, a Poland China hog from Leigh, Nebraska, held the unofficial title of World’s Largest Hog in 1928.	NH	80	04	1999	182	184
Karyn	Stansbery		Author	Law at the end of the Trail: Ogallala, 1873-1887 (The)	Ogallala’s fame as the wild and wooly “Cowboy Capital” rests on a few well-publicized incidents. Providing law enforcement at the end of the Texas longhorns’ trail usually involved no more than tracking down local rustlers and horse thieves.	NH	79	01	1998	002	013
Elizabeth	Raby		Author	“Yours for Political Housecleaning”: Maud E Nuquist, First Woman Candidate for Governor of Nebraska	Maud Nuquist was known only for her work with Women‟s Clubs before she became a candidate in the 1934 Democratic gubernatorial primary. Her platform called for professional, not political, control of state departments.	NH	79	01	1998	014	023
William E	Lass		Author	Nebraska City’s Steam Wagon	Promoter Joseph Brown brought the first self-propelled vehicle, a steam wagon, to Nebraska City in 1862. Although his machine broke down and had to be abandoned only a few miles west of town, it did inspire trail improvement in Otoe County and beyond.	NH	79	01	1998	024	033
Pollak	Oliver B		Author	Capitalism, Culture, and Philanthropy: Charles N and Nettie Fowler Dietz of Omaha, 1881-1939	The prosperous businesses of the Dietz family included lumber yards in Nebraska and a coal mining company in Wyoming. The couple traveled widely and accumulated large art and book collections. They generously supported Omaha institutions	NH	79	01	1998	034	043
				Editor’s Showcase: Queer Case – Desertion of a Soldier Guard and Two Convicts		NH	79	01	1998	051	051
Mark	Smith		Author	Early Years of Broadcasting in Norfolk, Nebraska (The), 1922-1928	During the 1920s, Norfolk station 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 75^th anniversary in 1997.	NH	79	02	1998	054	068
Andrea I	Faling		Author	A Lost Lady in Hollywood	Hollywood’s 1934 version of A Lost Lady disappointed Willa Cather so much that she prohibited further dramatization of her work. Only when copyrights expired after seventy-five years did producers gain access to her writings.	NH	79	02	1998	069	073
Dennis N	Mihelich		Author	Boom-Bust: Prince Hall Masonry in Nebraska during the 1920s	Prince Hall Masonry is an African 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, 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.	NH	79	02	1998	074	084
Kingsley M	Bray		Author	Crazy Horse and the End of the Great Sioux War	The surrender of Crazy Horse and the 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.	NH	79	03	1998	094	115
Joseph	Agonito		Author	Young Man Afraid of His Horses: The Reservation Years	Young Man Afraid of His Horses 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.	NH	79	03	1998	116	132
Richard E	Jensen		Author	The Wright-Beauchampe Investigation and the Pawnee Threat of 1829	The Pawnee tribe actively resisted the US Army and the white Americans 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.	NH	79	03	1998	133	143
Michael A	Amundson		Author	Portrait of a Small Town: The Photographic Diary of Neligh’s Emanuel Wolfe	Emanuel Wolfe, a dry goods merchant in Neligh, took photographs that document his changing world. From 1900 until 1930 his large-format camera recorded images of family members, neighbors, homes, businesses, and events.	NH	79	04	1998	150	161
John D	McDermott		Author	No Small Potatoes: Problems of Food and Health at Fort Laramie, 1849-1859	Fort Laramie’s officers knew that scurvy was a major source of illness and death among their soldiers. They were aware that fresh vegetables produced locally were needed, but they did not succeed in having them cultivated on the post.	NH	79	04	1998	162	170
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	Rosa Hudspeth and the Stuart Ledger, 1901-1907	Rosa Hudspeth (1864-1911) was a 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.	NH	79	04	1998	171	178
Michele	Fagan		Author	“Give ‘Till It Hurts:” Financing Memorial Stadium	Memorial Stadium was a major construction project requiring significant resources in the 1920s. Students, alumni, and state residents were strongly encouraged to contribute even though Nebraska was just then experiencing an economic depression.	NH	79	04	1998	179	191
Wallace C	Peterson		Author	Editor’s Showcase: Death in the Afternoon	Charles “Speed” Holman, an experienced stunt pilot, was preparing to roar past the grandstands upside down at Omaha’s first annual Air Races when his plane plunged to the ground.	NH	79	04	1998	210	211
Harlan	Jennings		Author	Grand Opera in Nebraska in the 1890s	The 1890s in Nebraska marked the beginning of a golden age of grand opera. Nearly all the major operatic organizations and leading artists of the time came to perform.	NH	78	01	1997	002	013
Lewis O	Saum		Author	Eugene Field and the “Hayes Saloon” in Omaha, An Episode of 1885	Chicago journalist Eugene Field asserted that former President Hayes owned property in Omaha that included a saloon. This accusation, which turned out to be true, was highly embarrassing for Hayes, a symbol of the temperance cause..	NH	78	01	1997	014	021
Margaret May Patton Edward Arthur Jill Marie	Gehrke Gehrke Koelling		Author Photographer Editor	A Thousand Mile Motor Trip through Western Nebraska, 1916	Maggie Gehrke kept a daily journal of entertaining road stories on trips that she took with her husband Edward. This account of an excursion to Ainsworth is an example of the Gehrkes’ quest for adventure and their teamwork in the face of mishaps on the road.	NH	78	01	1997	022	027
Dennis N	Mihelich		Author	World War I, the Great Migration, and the Formation of the Grand Bodies of Prince Hall Masonry	The focus and status of Prince Hall Masonry in Nebraska changed as 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.	NH	78	01	1997	028	039
Thomas R	Buecker		Author	“The Men Behaved Splendidly”: Guy V Henry’s Famous Cavalry Rides	Captain Guy V Henry commanded troops from Fort Robinson, Nebraska, on two winter marches, sixteen years apart: in 1874 and 1890.	NH	78	02	1997	054	063
David	Drummond		Author	“The Delusion” of John Morris: A Better Mouse Trap and its Makers	In 1876 Nebraskan John Morris patented the first design for a multi-catch mouse trap that enjoyed great commercial success. Its most innovative feature, widely copied, was a hinged outer door that allowed the trap to function repeatedly before it was emptied.	NH	78	02	1997	064	074
Patricia C	Gaster		Author	Bix in Nebraska: A L Bixby and the “Daily Drift”	A L “Doc” Bixby (1856-1934) was 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.	NH	78	02	1997	075	083
Edward R	Tyron		Author	Nebraska Connections to a Titanic Disaster	The April 15, 1912, tragedy of the “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.	NH	78	02	1997	084	092
Mary Cochran	Grimes		Author	Books for Nebraska: Roy and Aileen Cochran and the Nebraska Public Library Commission	Between 1935 and 1941, Democratic Governor Robert L “Roy” Cochran 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.	NH	78	03	1997	102	109
Rudolph E	Umland		Author	The Federal Writers’ Project: A Nebraska Editor Remembers	Umland became Nebraska state editor of the WPA Federal Writers’ Project in 1936. Many of the Nebraska writers were inexperienced and their office was chaotic, but they produced state and city guide books as well as many booklets and pamphlets on Nebraska topics.	NH	78	03	1997	110	115
Joanna Cohan	Scherer		Author	A Preponderance of Evidence: The 1852 Omaha Indian Delegation Daguerreotypes	The author describes the research process that helped her to identify two Indian daguerreotypes. She studied details of clothing and accessories, previously identified photographs, newspapers, and a diary in order to name some of the Indians pictured and determine locations where such images might have been made.	NH	78	03	1997	116	121
Anne M	Oppegard		Author	For Posterity: Namesakes of Four University of Nebraska Buildings	University buildings commemorate the distinguished service of Chairman of the Department of Physical Education for Women Mabel Lee, Chancellor E A Andrews, Chancellor Edgar Burnett, and President of the Board of Governors Charles H Morrill.	NH	78	03	1997	122	133
Samuel	Sinner		Author	Famine in the Volga Basin, 1920-124, and the American Volga Relief Society Records	Volga Relief Society records, housed at the Nebraska State Historical Society, detail ways that German Russians in Lincoln assisted ethnic Germans in Russia in the 1920s. These American supporters sent clothing, food, and cash to the Volga Germans persecuted by the Bolsheviks and left to starve.	NH	78	03	1997	134	138
R Eli	Paul		Author	Foreword	Fort Robinson History Conference background remarks	NH	78	04	1997	150	150
Frank N	Schubert		Author	Ten Troopers: Buffalo Soldier Medal of Honor Men who served at Fort Robinson	Ten of the twenty-three buffalo soldiers who received the Medal of 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.	NH	78	04	1997	151	157
Mary L	Williams		Author	Ladies of the Regiment: Their Influence on the Frontier Army	Wives of officers assigned to western military posts helped to shape the environments within their garrisons. They made comfortable homes for their families and used their influence to refine frontier army life	NH	78	04	1997	158	164
John D	McDermott		Author	Were They Really Rogues? Desertion in the Nineteenth-Century U S Army	During the nineteenth century one of 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.	NH	78	04	1997	165	174
James E	Potter		Author	“He…Regretted Having to Die That Way”: Firearms Accidents in the Frontier Army, 1806-1891	Firearms accidents were one of many hazards of service in the frontier army. Malfunctioning equipment caused some of the accidents, but most resulted from careless handling of weapons.	NH	78	04	1997	175	186
Jerome A	Greene		Editor	Chasing Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse: Two Fourteenth US Infantry Diaries of the Great Sioux War	This article contains diary entries relating to the experiences of both an 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 Dakota.	NH	78	04	1997	187	201
Michael W	Schuyler		Author	1950s (The): A Retrospective View	America felt relatively tranquil in the 1950s. To those who were enjoying a newfound post-war prosperity it seemed that problems like discrimination, poverty, and racism would solve themselves.	NH	77	01	1996	002	011
William L	Hewitt		Author	“The Indian Who Never Got Home”: The Burial of Sergeant John R Rice	Sergeant John R Rice, Winnebago, 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.	NH	77	01	1996	012	020
Phil	Roberts		Author	Scotts Bluff National Monument and the Coming of Television to the Nebraska Panhandle	When a broadcasting company sought to build a television tower on top of the Scotts Bluff National Monument in 1954, the National Park Service refused the request. Television did come to the area the following year, when the company accepted a site without historical significance or striking scenery.	NH	77	01	1996	021	029
				Strategic Air Command Memorial Chapel (The)	Striking stained glass windows in the Offutt Air Force Base chapel memorialize those who participated in SAC missions during the cold war. Today the chapel serves US STRATCOM personnel of all faiths.  Acknowledgements: Lt Col Thomas J Land, director of staff, 55^th Wing, U S Air Force; Anthony Godfrey, president, U S West Research Inc	NH	77	01	1996	030	032
Melba Carol	Scott Ahlgren		Author Author	Witness to an Atomic Test	In 1955 Melba Scott observed Operation Cue, an above-ground atomic test in the Nevada desert. In this 1995 interview Scott describes her Nevada experiences and her feelings 40 years later about the dangers of an atomic explosion.	NH	77	01	1996	033	044
William C	Pratt		Author	Change, Continuity, and Context in Nebraska History, 1940-1960	The years 1940-1960 brought modern life to Nebraska. That era marked by political conservatism and anti-Communism saw important changes including increased home construction, greater educational opportunity, and interstate highways.	NH	77	01	1996	045	054
Robert M	Utley		Author	Remarks at the Symposium “The Way West,” Lincoln, Nebraska	The Ric Burns documentary miniseries The Way West leads historians to ask two questions. How should we look on our frontier past? How should television portray the frontier heritage?	NH	77	02	1996	062	066
Kent	Blaser		Author	Something Old, Something New: Understanding the American West	New West scholars are exploring history from the perspective of our time. Their topics include multiculturalism, environmentalism, and gender issues.	NH	77	02	1996	067	077
John D	McDermott		Author	“We Had a Terribly Hard Time Letting Them Go”: The Battles of Mud Springs and Rush Creek	The engagements at Mud Springs and Rush Creek did not cause major 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.	NH	77	02	1996	078	088
Phillip G	Twitchell		Editor	Camp Robinson Letters of Angeline Johnson, 1876-1879	Angeline Johnson, wife of an army 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.	NH	77	02	1996	089	095
Gail DeBuse	Potter		Author	The Crazy Horse Scalp Shirt	This article examines the construction 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.	NH	77	02	1996	096	098
Paul L	Hedren		Author	Battlefields as Material Culture: A Case Study from the Great Sioux War	Whether they are well-known or 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.	NH	77	02	1996	099	107
Robert W	Cherny		Author	Introduction	Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan and His America	NH	77	03 04	1996	118	118
William E	Christensen		Editor	The Cross of Gold Reburnished: A Contemporary Account of the 1896 Democratic Convention	Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan and His America	NH	77	03 04	1996	119	123
Vachel	Lindsay		Author	Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan	Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan and His America	NH	77	03 04	1996	124	128
Rebecca	Edwards		Author	Popular Appeals in the Campaign of 1896	Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan and His America	NH	77	03 04	1996	129	139
Kenneth C	Wenzer		Author	Tolstoy and Bryan	Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan and His America	NH	77	03 04	1996	140	148
Julie	Greene		Author	The Making of Labor’s Democracy: William Jennings Bryan, the American Federation of Labor, and Progressive Era Politics	Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan and His America During the years 1896 to 1912, the Democratic Party 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.	NH	77	03 04	1996	149	158
John E	Carter		Author	Postcard Politics: The 1908 Presidential Campaign	Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan and His America	NH	77	03 04	1996	159	166
Kendrick A	Clements		Author	Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan	Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan and His America	NH	77	03 04	1996	167	176
Stephen Jay	Gould		Author	William Jennings Bryan’s Last Campaign	Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan and His America	NH	77	03 04	1996	177	183
Robert W	Cherny		Author	William Jennings Bryan and the Historians	Special Issue: William Jennings Bryan and His America	NH	77	03 04	1996	184	193
W Raymond	Wood		Author	Fort Charles or “Mr Mackey’s Trading House”		NH	76	01	1995	002	009
Dennis N	Mihelich		Author	Origins of the Prince Hall Mason Grand Lodge of Nebraska (The)	Prince Hall Masonry is an African 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.	NH	76	01	1995	010	021
Andrea I	Paul		Author	Nebraska’s Home Movies: The Nebraska Exhibit at the 1904 World’s Fair		NH	76	01	1995	022	029
Oliver B	Pollak		Author	Workmen’s Circle and Labor Lyceum in Omaha, 1907-1977 (The)	In the early twentieth century 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 kept the Circle going even after immigration quotas had severely limited the number of new members.	NH	76	01	1995	030	042
Richard O Samuel	Joyce Van Pelt		Author Author	“You Bet I Was Scared”: A Doolittle Raider Remembers	Special Issue:  V-J Day, World War II	NH	76	02 03	1995	054	065
Frederick T	Daly		Author	Nebraska-Related Names of United States Navy Ships	Special Issue:  V-J Day, World War II	NH	76	02 03	1995	066	074
Beverly	Russell		Author	World War II Boomtown: Hastings and the Naval Ammunition Depot	Special Issue:  V-J Day, World War II	NH	76	02 03	1995	075	083
W Raymond	Wood		Author	Or Go Down in Flame: A Navigator’s Death Over Schweinfurt	Special Issue:  V-J Day, World War II	NH	76	02 03	1995	084	099
Douglas R	Hartman		Author	Lawrence W Youngman: War Correspondent for the Omaha World-Herald	Special Issue:  V-J Day, World War II	NH	76	02 03	1995	100	105
Michele L	Fagan		Author	Overseas With the ANC: Experiences of Nebraska Nurses in World War II	Special Issue:  V-J Day, World War II	NH	76	02 03	1995	106	121
Alex	Meyer		Author	Karl Timmermann: From Pebble Creek to the Rhine	Special Issue:  V-J Day, World War II	NH	76	02 03	1995	122	128
Robert	Hurst		Author	Nebraska Army Air Fields, A Pictorial Review	Special Issue:  V-J Day, World War II	NH	76	02 03	1995	129	143
David	Murphy		Author	Rock in the Ground, Stone in the Wall: Czech Buildings from the Ogallala Deposition	The article describes the geology of a one-hundred-square-mile section of the South Divide in Cheyenne and Logan counties, Nebraska and Colorado, respectively. From this perspective, then it explores the building of the Czech immigrants in the use of the water-borne rock into the area.	NH	76	04	1995	154	163
William G	Chrystal		Author	Orville “Tubby” Ralston, Nebraska’s War Bird	Orville "Tubby" Ralston, born in Weeping Water, Nebraska, earned the Distinguished Service Cross in 1921. He was sometimes called "Nebraska's Forgotten Ace."	NH	76	04	1995	164	175
Todd M	Kerstetter		Author	High Water: Flooding in the Elkhorn Basin, 1823-1940	This article explores the floods in the Elkhorn River Basin from an early report of 1823 through 1940, including the various efforts of residents to deal with the flooding effects. Within the text of the article is a chart record of the number of major and minor floods by stream and county, as well as a chart by date of the various floods with comments.	NH	76	04	1995	176	187
Ludy T	Benjamin	Jr	Author	Santa Claus Survey (The): A Pioneering Nebraska Study in Child Psychology	Frances E Duncombe, a thirty-year-old graduate student at the University of Nebraska, undertook original research on the psychology of Santa Claus. Duncombe's study, perhaps the first survey ever done on the subject of Santa Claus, was published in 1896 and was replicated on a new sample of Lincoln school children in 1977.	NH	76	04	1995	188	194
				Introduction	Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska	NH	75	01	1994	006	007
				Ancient Seas: Shark-infested Coral Seas; Sea Monsters and Dinosaurs (Part One)	Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska	NH	75	01	1994	008	029
				Jungles and Savannas: Our Oldest Mammals; Camels, Rhinos and Four-tuskers	Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska	NH	75	01	1994	030	055
				Ice Age (The): Zebras and Giant Camels; Mammoths and Muskoxen; Hooves and Horns	Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska	NH	75	01	1994	056	081
				Ancient Nomads: Big Game Hunters; The Foragers	Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska	NH	75	01	1994	082	107
				Crops and Villages: The Early Potters; Late Precontact Village Farmers	Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska	NH	75	01	1994	108	131
				Cultures in Contact	Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska	NH	75	01	1994	132	155
				Conclusion	Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska	NH	75	01	1994	158	161
				Credits	Special Issue: The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska	NH	75	01	1994	162	162
R Eli	Paul		Author	Foreword Covers – Lakota woman and girl, Pine Ridge Reservation, 1891; Sitting Bull’s rattle	The History and Ethnology of the Lakota Sioux, a Special Issue	NH	75	02	1994	164	164
Kingsley M	Bray		Author	Teton Sioux Population History, 1655-1881	The History and Ethnology of the 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.	NH	75	02	1994	165	188
R Eli	Paul		Author	Early Reference to Crazy Horse (An)	The History and Ethnology of the 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 letter describes a soldier who was going duck hunting when he was shot by an Indian identified as Crazy Horse.	NH	75