FOREWORD, By Addison E. Sheldon, Nebraska State Historical Society v

PREFACE Vli

GENERAL INFORMATION xk

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Part I. The State in Review

MODERN NEBRASKA 3

NATURAL SETTING: 6

Geography and Climate; Geology and Paleontology; Animal Life; Plant

Life; Natural Resources and Their Conservation

INDIANS: 26

Prehistoric Culture; Historic Indians

HISTORY: 44

Period of Exploration; Territorial Organization; Settlement; Statehood

GOVERNMENT: 69

The Unicameral Legislature

AGRICULTURE AND THE FARMER 73

INDUSTRY AND LABOR 82

TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION 90

ETHNIC ELEMENTS 101

FOLKLORE AND FOLKWAYS 105

EDUCATION AND RELIGION 114

ART AND Music 120

ARCHITECTURE 127

THE PRESS 133

LITERATURE 137

Part II. Cities and Towns

BEATRICE 147

FREMONT 154

GRAND ISLAND 162

HASTINGS 169

LINCOLN 176

NORFOLK 205

NORTH PLATTE 211

OMAHA 219

Part III. Tours

TOUR 1. (Sioux City, Iowa)-South Sioux City-Tekamah-

Omaha-Nebraska City-Falls City—(Hiawatha,

Kans.) ; 205 m.

[us 73-77, us 73E, us 73-75, us 73] 257

Section a. Missouri River Omaha, 99.2 m. 258

Section b. Omaha-Kansas Line, 105.8 m. 267

TOUR lA. Omaha-Bellevue, 5.5 m. [STATE 31] 277

TOUR IB. Junction with US 73-75-Rock Bluffs 6 m.

[Unnumbered road} 280

TOUR 2. (Sioux City, Iowa)-Winnebago-Fremont-Lincoln-

Beatrice-(Marysville, Kans.) ; 200 m.

[us 73-77, us 73^-77, us 77] 282

TOUR 3. (Yankton, S. Dak.)-Norfolk-Columbus-York-

Fairmont-Hebron-(Belleville, Kans.) ;

235.8 m. [us 81} 287

TOUR 4. (Fairfax, S. Dak.)-Butte-O'Neill-Bartlett-St Paul-

Grand Island-Hastings-Red Cloud-(Lebanon,

Kans.) ; 241.4 m. [us 281} 291

TOUR 5. (Colone, S. Dak.)-Springview-Bassett-Taylor-

Ansley-Kearney-Elm Creek-Holdrege-AIma-

(Woodruff, Kans.) ; 257 m. [us 83] 297

'TouR 6. (Hot Springs, S. Dak.)-Chadron-Alliance-

Bridgeport-Sidney-(Sterling, Colo.) ;

174 m. [STATE 19] 301

TOUR 7. (Sioux City, Iowa)-South Sioux City-O'Neill-

Valentine~Chadron-Harrison-(Lusk, Wyo.) ;

446.8 m. [us 20] 305

Section a. Missouri River-Bassett, 180.9 m* 306

Section b. Bassett-Wyoming Line, 266 m. 311

TOUR 8. (Missouri Valley, Iowa)-Fremont-Grand Island-

Kearney-North Platte-Sidney-r (Cheyenne,

Wyo.) ; 447.7 m. [us 30] 325

Section a. Missouri River-Kearney, 178.1 m. 327

Section b. Kearney-Ogallala, 145.4 m. 336

Section c. Ogallala-Wyoming Line, 124.3 m- 344

'TouR 8A. Maxwell-Fort McPherson National Cemetery-

Cottonwood Canyon, 5.1 m. [Unnumbered road] 348

'TouR 8B. North Platte-Maywood-McCook, 75.7 m. [us 183] 350

TOUR 9. (Council Bluffs, Iowa)-Omaha-Lincoln-Hastings-

Holdrege-McCook-Imperial- (Holyoke,

Colo.); 389.2 m. [us 6]

Section a. Omaha-Hastings, 161.7 m.

Section b, Hastings-Colorado Line, 227.5 m.

TOUR 10, (Sidney, Iowa)-Nebraska City-Lincoln-Grand

Island-Alliance-Crawford-(Ardmore,

S. Dak.) ; 525.6 m. [STATE 2]

Section a. Missouri River-Grand Island, 151.4 m.

Section b. Grand Island-S. Dak. Line, 373.6 m.

TOUR 11. (Rockport, Mo.)-Brownville-Beatrice-Franklin-

Trenton-(Wray, Colo.); 386.3 m. [STATE 3]

Section a. Brownville-Oxford, 248.3 m.

Section b. Oxford-Colorado Line, 138 m.

TOUR 12. Ogallala-Oshkosh-Bridgeport-Scottsbluff-

(Torrington, Wyo.) ; 155.5 m. [us 26]

TOUR 12A. Bridgeport-Chimney Rock-Gering-Scotts Bluff

National Monument-Horse Creek Treaty

Monument-Wyoming Line, 59.4 m. [STATE 86]

TOUR 13. Junction with US 2O-Ponca-Niobrara-Lynch-Butte-

(Burke, S. Dak.); 169.3 m- [STATE 12]

IV. Appendices

CHRONOLOGY 417

BIBLIOGRAPHY 425