LEADER 03426nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910452010303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-09245-2 010 $a9786611092450 010 $a0-8032-1572-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000476927 035 $a(EBL)313327 035 $a(OCoLC)476102115 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000209029 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11194319 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000209029 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10244951 035 $a(PQKB)10538548 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC313327 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL313327 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10202580 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL109245 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000476927 100 $a20070514d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNebraska moments$b[electronic resource] /$fDonald R. Hickey, Susan A. Wunder, John R. Wunder 205 $aNew ed. 210 $aLincoln $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (428 p.) 300 $a"A Bison original"--P. [4] of cover. 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8032-6039-3 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a16. 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 327 $a30. 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 330 $aAn 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. 607 $aNebraska$xHistory 607 $aNebraska$xHistory$vAnecdotes 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a978.2 700 $aHickey$b Donald R.$f1944-$0854723 701 $aWunder$b Susan A$0951063 701 $aWunder$b John R$0531737 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452010303321 996 $aNebraska moments$92193849 997 $aUNINA