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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452010303321

Autore

Hickey Donald R. <1944->

Titolo

Nebraska moments [[electronic resource] /] / Donald R. Hickey, Susan A. Wunder, John R. Wunder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-09245-2

9786611092450

0-8032-1572-X

Edizione

[New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (428 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WunderSusan A

WunderJohn R

Disciplina

978.2

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Nebraska History

Nebraska History Anecdotes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Bison original"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Timeline of Nebraska Moments; Preface; 1. The Villasur Expedition; 2. Old Bellevue; 3. The Oregon Trail; 4. The Kansas-Nebraska Act; 5. The Pony Express; 6. Daniel Freeman and Homesteading; 7. Nebraska Statehood and Its First Governor; 8. The Fight for the Capital; 9. Red Cloud and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868; 10. The Union Pacific Railroad; 11. The Murder of Crazy Horse at Fort Robinson; 12. The Trial of Standing Bear; 13. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and the Wild West Show; 14. The Great Nebraska Migration; 15. J. Sterling Morton and Arbor Day

16. The Blizzard of '88 17. William Jennings Bryan and Agrarian Protest; 18. The Rise of Omaha; 19. Charles E. Bessey and the Nebraska National Forest; 20. Gen. John J. Pershing and World War I; 21. Fr. Edward Flanagan, the Abbott Sisters, and Nebraska's Children; 22. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and Nebraska's Doctors; 23. Meyer v. Nebraska (1923); 24. Willa Cather and Her Pulitzer Prize; 25. The Nebraska State Capitol, Great Plains Icon; 26. Nebraska's Would-be Vice Presidents; 27. The Pound Family; 28. Nebraska's Literary Renaissance;



29. George W. Norris and the Unicameral

30. The Nebraska Home Front and World War 1131. Nebraska's Visual Feast; 32. Nebraska's Scientists; 33. Offutt Air Force Base; 34. The Ogallala Aquifer; 35. Omaha's Gerald Ford and Malcolm X; 36. Becoming Madam Governor; 37. The University of Nebraska Football Champions; 38. The Murder of Brandon Teena; 39. The Kearney Arch; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An account of defining Nebraska moments, including: surviving the Oregon and Mormon trails; completing the Union Pacific Railroad; and winning national football championships, Nobel and Pulitzer prices, and presidential nominations.