03426nam 2200613 a 450 991045201030332120200520144314.01-281-09245-297866110924500-8032-1572-X(CKB)1000000000476927(EBL)313327(OCoLC)476102115(SSID)ssj0000209029(PQKBManifestationID)11194319(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000209029(PQKBWorkID)10244951(PQKB)10538548(MiAaPQ)EBC313327(Au-PeEL)EBL313327(CaPaEBR)ebr10202580(CaONFJC)MIL109245(EXLCZ)99100000000047692720070514d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNebraska moments[electronic resource] /Donald R. Hickey, Susan A. Wunder, John R. WunderNew ed.Lincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20071 online resource (428 p.)"A Bison original"--P. [4] of cover.Includes index.0-8032-6039-3 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 Day16. 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 Unicameral30. 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; IndexAn 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.NebraskaHistoryNebraskaHistoryAnecdotesElectronic books.978.2Hickey Donald R.1944-854723Wunder Susan A951063Wunder John R531737MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452010303321Nebraska moments2193849UNINA