CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I [1]
NATURAL CONDITIONS -- GEOLOGY -- ARCHAEOLOGY -- CLIMATIC CONDITIONS -- 
VEGETATION -- FAUNA

CHAPTER II [2]
ABORIGINAL OCCUPANTS -- SPANISH AND FRENCH EXPLORERS -- AMERICAN 
EXPEDITIONS -- FUR TRADE -- FIRST SETTLEMENTS -- EARLY TRADERS -- 
AUTHENTIC EXPLORATIONS

CHAPTER III [3]
EARLY TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION -- THE OVERLAND STAGE -- PONY EXPRESS -- 
RIVER NAVIGATION -- FIRST RAILROAD AND TELEGRAPH

CHAPTER IV [4]
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE

CHAPTER V [5]
THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE --THE SECOND COMPROMISE -- STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS -- 
THE RICHARDSON BILL -- THE DODGE BILL -- THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL -- 
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT -- DIVISION OF NEBRASKA -- ESTIMATE OF DOUGLAS -- 
PROPOSED BOUNDARIES -- SUFFRAGE QUALIFICATIONS

CHAPTER VI [6]
THE MORMONS IN NEBRASKA

CHAPTER VII [7]
THE FIRST GOVERNOR -- RIVAL TOWNS -- ORGANIZATION -- ELECTION PRECINCTS -- 
FIRST CAPITAL CONTROVERSY -- FIRST ELECTION

CHAPTER VIII [8]
FIRST LEGISLATURE -- ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNOR IZARD -- LOCATION OF THE 
CAPITAL -- LAWS OF THE FIRST SESSION -- UNITED STATES SURVEYS -- CLAIM 
CLUBS -- INCORPORATION LAWS -- NEBRASKA'S PECULIARITY -- FIRST 
INDEPENDENCE DAY -- JUDICIAL ORGANIZATION

CHAPTER IX [9]
THE SECOND LEGISLATURE -- SECOND CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN -- POLITICAL 
CONDITIONS

CHAPTER X [10]
THE THIRD LEGISLATURE -- THE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN -- RICHARDSON 
SUCCEEDS IZARD -- THE FOURTH LEGISLATURE -- FLORENCE SESSION -- DEATH OF 
GOVERNOR CUMING

CHAPTER XI [11]
FIRST POLITICAL CONVENTIONS -- POSTPONEMENT OF LAND SALES -- FIFTH 
LEGISLATURE -- RESIGNATION OF GOVERNOR RICHARDSON

CHAPTER XII [12]
LAND SALES -- HALF -BREED TRACT -- UNITED STATES SURVEYS -- APPOINTMENT OF 
GOVERNOR BLACK -- FIRST TERRITORIAL FAIR -- CHAPMAN-FERGUSON CONTEST -- 
ANNEXATION TO KANSAS

CHAPTER XIII [13]
THE TERRITORY UNDER PARTY ORGANIZATION -- THE FIRST PARTY CAMPAIGNS -- 
DAILY-ESTABROOK CONTEST -- SIXTH LEGISLATURE

CHAPTER XIV [14]
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS -- CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGNS OF 1860-1862 -- SEVENTH 
LEGISLATURE -- MORTON-DAILY CONTEST -- DEPARTURE OF GOVERNOR BLACK -- 
APPOINTMENT OF GOVERNOR SAUNDERS -- MILITARY AFFAIRS -- EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

CHAPTER XV [15]
NINTH LEGISLATURE -- CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1864 -- POLITICAL 
CONVENTIONS, 1864 -- TENTH LEGISLATURE -- REAPPOINTMENT OF GOVERNOR 
SAUNDERS -- POLITICS IN 1865 -- ELEVENTH LEGISLATURE -- THE FIRST STATE 
CONSTITUTION

CHAPTER XVI [16]
POLITICS IN 1866 -- ROCK BLUFFS CONTEST -- JOHNSON AND ANTI-JOHNSON 
FACTIONS -- STRUGGLE OVER STATEHOOD -- ELECTION OF FIRST STATE OFFICERS -- 
TWELFTH AND LAST TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE -- THE NEGRO SUFFRAGE CONDITION 
IN CONGRESS, AND IN THE FIRST STATE LEGISLATURE

CHAPTER XVII [17]
TERRITORIAL MILITARY HISTORY

CHAPTER XVIII [18]
TERRITORIAL PRODUCTS

CHAPTER XIX [19]
TERRITORIAL PRESS

CHAPTER XX [20]
SLAVERY IN NEBRASKA

CHAPTER XXI [21]
THE PIONEER RAILWAY OF NEBRASKA

CHAPTER XXII [22]
SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, AND UNIVERSITIES

CHAPTER XXIII [23]
OGANIZING THE STATE GOVERNMENT -- REMOVAL OF THE CAPITAL -- ESTABLISHING 
LINCOLN

CHAPTER XXIV [24]
STARTING THE STATE -- SCANDALS IN THE STATE GOVERNMENT -- SENATOR TIPTON 
REËLECTED -- GOVERNOR BUTLER'S THIRD ELECTION -- HITCHCOCK UNITED STATES 
SENATOR -- IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER XXV [25]
ANARCHY IN THE LEGISLATURE -- SESSIONS OF 1871-1872 -- LUNATIC ASYLUM 
BURNED -- CONSTITTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1871

CHAPTER XXVI [26]
A SPECIAL SESSION FIASCO -- THE TENNANT CASE -- RIGHT OF A NEGRO TO BE A 
JURYMAN -- VALIDITY OF ADMISSION TO STATEHOOD -- POLITICAL DISRUPTION OF 
1872 -- THE FURNAS LIBEL SUIT -- THE KENNARD CLAIMS -- STATE FINANCE -- 
RETIREMENT OF TIPTON AND ELECTION OF PADDOCK FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR -- 
FINAL DEFEAT OF THAYER -- CAPITAL REMOVAL -- LEGISLATURE OF 1875

CHAPTER XXVII [27]
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1875 -- CONSTITUTIONS COMPARED -- ELECTIONS OF 
1875 -- RISE OF VAN WYCK -- POLITICS OF 1876

CHAPTER XXVIII [28]
BLUNDERS IN PROCEDURE -- DEFEAT OF HITCHCOCK FOR SENATOR -- THE 
LEGISLATURE OF 1877 -- CAPITAL REMOVAL -- INCREASE IN POPULATION -- 
LEGISLATION AND POLITICS, 1877-1883 -- OMAHA LABOR RIOT OF 1882

CHAPTER XXIX [29]
POLITICAL HISTORY, 1882-1890 -- THE PERIOD OF MAINLY UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS 
TO PROCURE REFORM LEGISLATION CULMINATING IN THE POPULIST REVOLUTION -- 
FIRST RAILROAD COMMISSION -- THREE CENT PASSENGER RATE

CHAPTER XXX [30]
THE POPULIST REVOLUTION -- THE STRANGLED STATE ELECTION CONTEST OF 1890-
1891 -- DEFEAT OF THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT -- POLITICAL CONVENTIONS AND 
ELECTIONS, 1890-1892 -- LEGISLATURES OF 1891 AND 1893 -- ELECTION OF WM. 
V. ALLEN, POPULIST, FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR -- IMPEACHMENT OF STATE 
OFFICERS

CHAPTER XXXI [31]
THE POPULIST PROBATION -- RETURN OF THE REPUBLICAN PRODIGAL -- HIS 
CONVERSION TO POPULISM -- A PERIOD OF PARTY ROTATION

CHAPTER XXXII [32]
MATERIAL GROWTH AND RESOURCES -- AGRICULTURE -- COMMERCE -- MANUFACTURE --
THE GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE -- DROUTHS -- FARMERS' ORGANIZATIONS -- TRANS-
MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION

CHAPTER XXXIII [33]
HISTORY OF RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION -- FINAL INDIAN HOSTILITIES -- NEBRASKA 
IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN -- THE SUPREME COURT OF NEBRASKA

CHAPTER XXXIV [34-A, 34-B, 34-C, 34-D]
THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN NEBRASKA -- CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OMAHA AND 
NEBRASKA -- SOUTH PLATTE CATHOLICISM AND THE LINCOLN DIOCESE -- CHURCHES 
OF CHRIST (DISCIPLES) -- PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -- UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH -- 
REFORMED CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES -- UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -- 
UNITED DANISH EVANGELICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AMERICA -- LUTHERAN CHURCH -- 
EPISCOPAL CHURCH -- EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD OF MISSOURI, OHIO, AND. 
OTHER STATES -- SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS -- GERMAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH -- METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AMONG THE SWEDISH PEOPLE OF 
NEBRASKA -- EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD OF NEBRASKA -- METHODIST EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH -- CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

CHAPTER XXXV [35]
GREATER OMAHA -- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN NEBRASKA -- AK-SAR-BEN OF OMAHA -- 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE POTASH INDUSTRY

CHAPTER XXXVI [36]
THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION -- THE WORLD WAR

INDEX




DEDICATED

To the memory of the strong men and noble women who dared the dangers and 
endured the hardships of pioneer life in the "Great American Desert"; who 
first plowed and planted these Plains, who here first built and 
consecrated homes, and who laid the foundations of an enduring 
civilization.


A STATEMENT BY THE PUBLISHERS

   The publishers take pleasure in presenting to the people of the state 
and of the country this History of Nebraska. While it is the history 
prepared by Sterling Morton and Albert Watkins, it is much more. It is a 
careful and a thoughtful revision of their edition which was completed in 
1911 and 1913.

   The revision has been made in the light and according to the following 
guiding principles:

   1. To preserve, as far as possible, the order and the current of events 
as they are presented in the former work.
   2. To furnish, at reasonable cost and within moderate space, a 
trustworthy history of the days of exploration and discovery, of the 
pioneer sacrifices and settlements, of the life and organization of the 
territory of Nebraska, of the first fifty years of statehood and progress, 
and of the place Nebraska holds in the scale of character and civilization.
   3. This revision is the result of a conscientious and painstaking 
effort to preserve the unity and spirit, the aim and purpose of the 
original work. Where changes have been made they have been to bring the 
parts together, to preserve the unity and harmony of statement, and to add 
important events which have taken place since the publication of the 
parent work. Changes have been made, also, to include the events and 
progress which fall within the semi-centennial period which had not taken 
place when the larger work was written.
   4. It has been the specific aim to include the facts of life and the 
events in history which exhibit for the people of today and for those who 
are to come after us a true picture of the plains of Nebraska and to give 
a trustworthy account of the progress which has been made during the years 
which lie between the date when the first hunters and trappers saw the 
Platte river and valley and March 1, 1917 -- the end of the first semi-
centennial of the state.
   5. The publishers take the opportunity to say that no mention is made 
of the activity, loyalty, and patriotism of the people of Nebraska in the 
great war now raging in Europe. It must be apparent to all that the time 
has not come to recount the deeds of valor of our soldiers in the army and 
navy and to record the devotion and contributions of the people to the 
cause of freedom and for the relief of the distressed, the comfort of the 
sick and wounded, and for the deliverance of the oppressed. For, in all 
probability, we are nearer the beginning than the end of the great 
struggle--the task we have undertaken because of the cry

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of the oppressed and in answer to the call of humanity. It is the purpose 
of the publishers, when the war is over, to present to the public a volume 
giving Nebraska's record in the great war. Enough has been done during the 
fourteen or fifteen months since the United States declared a state of war 
exists and took her place with the allied nations, to assure us that 
Nebraska's record will be worthy of the great cause in which we are 
engaged and of the loyalty and patriotism of a free, intelligent, and 
independent people.

WESTERN PUBLISHING AND ENGRAVING COMPANY.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY, 1918


INTRODUCTION

   Two or three statements may aid us, in appreciation of history in 
general, and more particularly they may help to show the value, for all 
citizens, of local and state history. They will enable us to understand 
and to realize that he lives the best and most useful life, both for 
himself and for all with whom he is in any way connected, who lives in the 
present, who makes a wise use of all the past, and who provides, as far as 
possible for the future.

   This relation of past, present, and future points to the true meaning 
of history and helps us to determine its real significance. It suggests 
the most significant thing in the study of history, whether it relates to 
a community, to a state, to a nation, or to the world. This is the case 
whether history is one of the means of mental growth and intelligence and 
a source of enrichment of life, as in the case of a student, or from the 
standpoint of the busy man or woman who has time for only a few pages in a 
week. This meaning and significance may be express ed thus: We study 
history that we may know how the present came to be -- how the present 
came out of the past -- what the relation of the present is to the past, 
and, then, by a wise use of the knowledge we gain and the strength we 
acquire we may prepare for the future. This is the practical, everyday 
side of the knowledge of history. From this point of view history has a 
meaning and a significance which are beyond our ability to measure.

   2. A second thing worth while to mention in this connection is this: 
Every state in the federal union has certain things which distinguish it 
from others. These special characteristics may be in the relative 
position, in the form or contour of the surface, in the richness or 
poverty of the soil, in the depth or shallowness of the subsoil, in the 
water supply, in the presence, or absence of trees, in the quality, 
quantity, and variety of the native fruits, in the size and number of its 
watercourses, in its exposure to or protection from destructive storms, in 
the life and character of the native peoples, in the aim, spirit or 
purpose of the first settlers, in the adaptation of the earlier and later 
inhabitants, in the changing conditions which advancing civilization 
imposes, or any one or more of a hundred other peculiarities.

   While these qualities are often difficult to find in advance they 
determine the trend of development and fix within definite limits the 
extent and character of the progress and civilization of the inhabitants.

   The foregoing statements and that which they suggest about the state 
explain in part that which has been accomplished and that which Nebraska 
is at the end

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of the first semi-centennial period. This is the case because the trend of 
growth and development was determined in part by the physical features 
upon which the social, economic, political, educational, and religious 
forces have acted and reacted. Had they been different the history of 
those who came to build an enduring civilization would have been 
different. The divine hand through nature's forces and laws laid the 
foundations of a commonwealth and the builders have erected a structure 
worthy of themselves, of the opportunities which were theirs, and of the 
physical conditions into which they came.

   3. A third thing which may be in place in this introduction as we think 
of the significance of history and of the relation of the past to the 
present and to the future, is the complete transformation which has taken 
place in the valleys and on the plains of Nebraska within much less than 
one hundred years. What does that transformation say when we question the 
future? What is the answer when we ask what the future ought to be in the 
light of the growth of the past? And again when we see the answer in the 
light of the condition of the present? Do we have the courage of the real 
conviction necessary to face the future with its ever-increasing demands? 
Do we possess the knowledge of the past and likewise the ability and skill 
to use the forces and institutions of the present and thus make the future 
worthy of the past and of the present? Have we the wisdom which the past 
is willing to supply and the strength which knowledge gives so completely 
at our command that we can make the physical well-being, the intellectual 
attainments, the moral worth and spiritual excellence of the future worthy 
of the past and present? In the light of that which the history of 
Nebraska unfolds, what kind of a future will discharge the debt we owe the 
future? Think of the comparatively short time since the great stretches of 
Nebraska lands were occupied by Indian tribes and herds of buffalo, and of 
the very few years since the Oregon and Mormon trails were followed by the 
thousands of people who sought homes and fortunes in the far West! A 
little study will teach us what and when and how our forefathers 
accomplished, in so brief a space, so great a transformation. The pages of 
this semi-centennial history show us by what means our children and our 
children's children. may be worthy of the log cabin, the sod house and the 
ox team of our fathers. To make our children and ourselves worthy sons and 
daughters of noble men and devoted women is one of the chief purposes of 
this publication.

J. A. BEATTIE.        
LINCOLN, JULY, 1918.




ILLUSTRATIONS [not in online version]

J. Sterling Morton                   (frontspiece)
Arikaree Falls                                   2 
Bad Lands                                        3 
Pine Ridge                                       3 
Schlegel Rapids And Falls                        5 
Toadstool Park, Sioux County Bad Lands           6 
Falls of The North Loup River                    7 
Indian Artifacts                                 9 
Quivera Tomahawks                               10 
Piece of Indian Pottery                         11 
Prominent Indians                               25 
Marpiya Luta (Red Cloud)                        26 
Illustrations of Indian House Architecture      28 
Group of Winnebago Indian Chiefs                30 
Sentegaleska (Spotted Tail)                     31 
Henry Fontenelle                                33 
John And Alice Minick                           34 
Pit-A-Le-Shar-U (Man Chief)                     35 
Quivera Monument                                39 
Jacob V. Brower                                 40 
Wm Clark, Meriwether Lewis                      41
Lewis And Clark Monuments                       43 
Floyd Monument Near Sioux City, Iowa            45 
Pierre Chouteau, Jr.                            47 
Benjamin Louis Eulalia Bonneville               49 
John C. Fremont                                 51 
Manuel De Lisa                                  52 
Mary Manuel Lisa                                53 
Logan Fontenelle (Shon-Ga-Ska)                  54 
Sarpy & Lisa Monuments, Cem., St. Louis         56 
Peter A. Sarpy                                  57 
Early Missouri River Steamboats                 58 
Court House Rock And Jail                       70 
Chimney Rock                                    71 
Scotts Bluff And Vicinity                       73 
Scenes At Ash Hollow                            77 
Alexander Majors                                80 
Concord Stage-Coach                             81 
Moses H. Sydenham                               84 
Old Trading Post, Bellevue                      86 
Peter J. De Smet, S. J.                         87 
Stephen F. Nuckolls                             89 
Freighting Scenes                               91 
Ferry Across The Elkhorn River                  92 
Pacific Wagon Roads (Map)                       97 
Stephen A. Douglas                             117 
William Walker                                 124 
Abelard Guthrie                                125 
Hadley D. Johnson                              127 
Joseph & Hyrum Smith                           138 
Brigham Young                                  141 
Francis Burt                                   144 
First Claim Cabin In Nebraska                  147 
Bellevue, Nebraska, 1856                       148 
Charles H. Downs                               149 
Fenner Ferguson                                150 
James Bradley                                  151 
Thomas B. Cuming                               154 
Judge Edward R. Harden                         156 
General William Orlando Butler                 158 
Fred Renard                                    162 
Rachel Snoden                                  164 
W. P. Snowden                                  165 
J. Sterling Morton                             166 
Napoleon B. Giddings                           168 
Dr. Charles A. Henry                           169 
First Territorial Capitol Building             171 
Joseph L. Sharp                                172 
Hiram P. Bennet                                173 
Benjamin R. Folsom                             175
Jacob King                                     176 
Niles Rathbone Folsom                          177 
J. B. Kuony                                    178 
Regina Kuony                                   179 
Benjamin B. Thompson                           180 
Origen D. Richardson                           181 
Presbyterian Mission At Bellevue               182 
Mark W. Izard                                  184 
Dr. George L. Miller                           196 
Potter Charles Sullivan                        203 
R. H. Henry                                    206 
Second Territorial Capitol Building            207 
Nathan P. Dodge                                208 
John F. Buck                                   214 
Chas. McDonald                                 216 
Bird B. Chapman                                219 
Nancy J. Tucker                                224 
Geo. P. Tucker                                 225 
W. A. Richardson                               234 
Wm. McLennon                                   236 
Jesse Lowe                                     240 
John S. Bowen                                  242 
Robert W. Furnas                               243 
Rev. John Miller Taggart                       244 
James P. Peck                                  246 
A. H. Gilmore                                  254 
Henry A. Kosters                               256 
Mrs. Magdalena Kosters                         256 
Nancy Pecklam                                  256 
Perry M. Peckham                               256 
A. Hall                                        258 
Elmer S. Dundy                                 260 
Eleazer Wakeley                                262 
Theron and Caroline Nye                        266  
Downer T. Bramble                              270 
Oliver Perry Mason                             271 
Sireno B. Colson                               272 
Marker, Southeast Corner of Nebraska           274 
Three Views of Southeast Corner Marker         275 
J. N. H. Patrick                               276 
Dr. John E. Summers, Sr.                       278 
John Taffe                                     278 
William D. Brown                               278 
Dr. Erastus N. Upjohn                          278 
John Powers Johnson                            279 
Colonel Lorin Miller                           284 
Samuel G. Daily                                285 
Experience Estabrook                           288 
Dr. Jetus R. Conkling, Omaha                   292 
Mrs. Jennie Hanscom Conkling                   292 
Dr. James H. Peabody, Omaha                    292 
Mrs. Jennie Yates Peabody                      292 
Evander W. Barnum                              294 
James A Hacker                                 294 
John Steinhart                                 294 
John Dunbar                                    294 
Victor Vifquain                                298 
Jonas Welch                                    300 
Alvin Saunders                                 301 
Dr. John McPherson                             303 
Samuel Findley Burtch                          305 
William F. Lockwood                            308 
Henry A. Koenig                                310 
Charles A. Speice, Columbus                    312 
John Carrigan, Blair                           312 
Thomas F. Hall, Omaha                          312 
Manley Rogers, Fremont                         312 
William Pitt Kellogg                           315 
Samuel W. Black                                317 
James Wilson Coleman                           318 
Nancy Jane Coleman                             319 
Bruno Tzchuck                                  321 
J. P. Becker                                   322 
Colonel George Armstrong                       326 
Mrs. Julia Ewing Armstrong                     326 
Rollin M. Rolfe                                326 
Nedom B. Whitfield                             326 
William Hartford James                         328 
N. S. Harding                                  330 
Benjamin E. B. Kennedy                         331 
B. H. Fuller                                   334 
Daniel H. Wheeler                              336 
T. S. Clarkson                                 338 
Phineas Warrener Hitchcock                     340 
Franklin Sweet                                 342 
H. S. Kaley                                    346 
Charles H. Brown                               348 
William Remington                              350 
Mrs. William Remington                         350 
John Gillespie                                 353 
William Kellogg                                354 
Charles H. Dietrich                            356 
Charles Isaac Brown                            358 
Mrs. Charles Isaac Brown                       358 
Warren Saunders                                358 
Ole Anderson                                   360 
J. W. Gilbert                                  362 
H. P. Anderson                                 366 
William Franklin Chapin                        367 
Colonel John M. Stotsenberg                    368 
Saint Andre Durand Balcombe                    369 
Isham Reaves                                   370 
Isaac S. Hascall                               371 
William V. Allen                               372 
Silas A. Holcomb                               373 
Lorenzo Crounse                                374 
William F. Sweesy                              377 
Thomas Weston Tipton                           378 
John Melvin Graham                             379 
David Butler                                   380 
Jacob E. Frey                                  382 
Ashton C. Shallenberger                        383 
Elias Hicks Clark                              384 
Mrs. Phebe A. (Andrew) Clark                   385 
Charles H. Van Wyck                            388 
Gurdon W. Wattles                              390 
Rosalie Lisa Ely                               394 
General Henry Leavenworth                      395 
John Pilcher                                   396 
Ni-Co-Mi (Voice of The Waters)                 399 
Joseph La Flesche (E-Sta-Ma-Za, "Iron Eye")    400 
Mary La Flesche (Hin-Nu-Ga-Snun, "One Woman")  400 
Site of Fort Kearney                           401 
Thomas Henry Tibbles                           402 
Yosette La Flesch Tibbles                      402 
Block House At Old Fort Kearney                403 
Joseph Robidoux                                404 
Scenes At Old Fort Kearney                     406 
Henson Wiseman                                 407 
Major John W. Pearman                          408 
Edward De Morin                                410 
General William Selby Harney                   412 
General John McConihe                          413 
"Jim" Lane                                     414 
National Cemetery At Old Fort Mcpherson        416 
Fort Laramie in 1836                           417 
Lawson Sheldon                                 422 
Grasshopper Scene, Plattsmouth                 426 
Buffalo                                        431 
Joseph E. Johnson                              433 
Orsamus H. Irish                               435 
Milton W. Reynolds (Kicking Bird)              454 
John Brown                                     459 
Captain James H. Cook                          464 
UPRR Crosses The Overland Trail                465 
Prominent Rail Road Builders                   467
Thomas C. Durant, Sidney Dillon, Thomas A.
Scott, Jay Gould, Oakes Ames, Thomas C. Durant 472 
Silas Seymour                                  475 
Driving The Last Spike At Promontory           483 
Ames Monument                                  484 
Early River Scene, Omaha                       485 
Private RR Car of President Lincoln            487 
Grenville A Dodge                              488 
Engine No. 1 on the UP Railroad                489 
Railroad Bridge Across The Missouri River      490 
Mrs. Mary Lucretia Creighton                   493 
Mrs. Sarah Emily Creighton                     493 
William Prince Aylsworth                       494 
President David B. Perry                       496 
D. W. Huntington                               498 
Rev. Robert Lucius Wheeler, D.D.               501 
Bellevue College                               502 
Union College                                  507 
York College                                   511 
"Buffalo Bill" Cody                            559 
Charles H. Gere                                584 
Nebraska's Strategic Commercial Position (map) 666 
George W. Holdredge                            678 
W. J. & Mary Baird Bryan                       692 
Andrew M. Morressey                            695 
Charles B. Letton & William B. Rose            698 
Francis G. Hamer & James R. Dean               699 
Albert J. Cornish & Samuel H. Sedgwick         700 
Site of The Old Merrill Mission                704 
First Baptist Church, Omaha                    706 
First Baptist Church, Omaha (Completed)        707 
Rev. George Sutherland                         708 
Grand Island College Campus                    710 
View of Grand Island College                   710 
Rt. Rev. James M. O'Gorman                     713 
First Catholic Church Building in Omaha        714 
Rt. Rev. James O'Connor, D.D.                  715 
Rt. Rev. Richard Scannell, D.D.                716 
Rev. Anton Birnbach                            717 
St. Patrick's Church, Gretna                   718 
Rev. John V. Wallace                           719 
Rev. Mathew P. Dowling, S.J.                   720 
D. C. Bryant                                   722 
Rev. Michael Allen Shine                       723 
St. Benedict's Church, Nebraska City           725 
Very Rev. Emmanuel Hartig, O.S.B.              726 
Charles P. Evans                               729 
David Roberts Dungan                           730 
Robert Clark Barrow                            731 
Ira Van Camp                                   732 
Willis Anson Baldwin                           733 
Rev. Henry M. Giltner, D.D.                    736 
Rev. John T. Baird, D.D.                       737 
Presbyterian Mission, Bellevue                 739 
Bellevue College                               740 
Hastings College, View North                   744 
Hastings College, View South                   744 
R. B. Crone, LL.D.                             745 
Liberty Memorial Hall                          746 
Hope Reformed Church                           752 
H. W. Kuhns, D.D.                              761 
First Lutheran Church Bldg                     762 
Rev. Luther M. Kuhns                           763 
German Lutheran Seminary                       764
Lutheran High School And Business College      776 
Decatur Seventh-Day Adventist Church           778 
Beaver City Seventh-Day Adventist Church       779 
College Hall, Union College                    780 
Rev. Charles Harms                             781 
Rev. Henry Fiegenbaum                          782
Rev. Gustuv Erickson                           783 
Rev. Oscar J. Swan                             784 
Rev. Peter Munson                              785 
Sod Church of Nebraska Synod                   789 
Nebraska Synod in Session                      790 
David Marquette, D.D.                          793 
Rev. Harrison Presson                          794 
Rev. Moses Franklin Shinn                      795 
H. T. Davis, D.D.                              796 
John B. Maxfield                               797 
W. B. Slaughter                                798 
Rev. Isaac Chivington                          799 
First Methodist Episcopal Church in NE         800 
Rev. Jacob Adriance                            801 
Rev. Porter C. Johnson, D.D.                   802 
Rev. James J. & Minerva E. Roberts             804 
National M. E. Orphanage, York, NE             806 
Burwell Spurlock                               807 
Isabella S. D. (Mrs. B.) Spurlock              807 
Rev. Harmon Bross, D.D.                        809 
Rev. Reuben Gaylord                            810 
Rev. Isaac Erving & Miranda N. Heaton          811 
Samuel & Mrs. Emeline Allis                    812 
First Congregational Church, in Omaha          813 
Rev. Amos Dresser                              814 
Rev. Charles Little                            814 
Rev. A. F. Sherrill, D.D.                      814 
Rev. C. S. Harrison                            814 
Rev. Lewis Gregory, D.D.                       817 
First Congregational Church, Lincoln           818 
Site of Nebraska University at Fontenelle      819 
Santee Normal Training School                  825 
Rev. Alfred L. Riggs, D.D.                     826 
Artemas Eh-Na-Ma-Ni                            827 
John L. Webster                                844