Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker StateFirst published in 1939 and never before available in a paperback edition, this remarkable compendium of Nebraskiana includes chapters on the state's history, natural setting, flora and fauna, Indians, government, agriculture and industry, ethnic groups, folklore, architecture, art, and literature. Far more than a tour guide, it is replete with all manner of colorful and unusual sidelights on Nebraska places and people, the kind of information not readily accessible outside of archives. Tom Allan, veteran roving reporter for the Omaha World Herald, has written a new introduction which bridged the years between 1939 and 1979 an reveals some of his own off-the-beaten-path discoveries. Rewarding reading for the armchair traveler and an indispensable companion for the tourist, Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State will delight and inform all those interested in Nebraska and the Great Plains region. |
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Contenido
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The Unicameral Legislature | 71 |
INDUSTRY AND LABOR | 82 |
TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION | 90 |
ETHNIC ELEMENTS | 101 |
EDUCATION AND RELIGION | 114 |
ART AND MUSIC | 120 |
ARCHITECTURE | 127 |
ОМАНА | 219 |
Tours | 255 |
TOUR 1A OmahaBellevue 5 5 m STATE 31 | 277 |
Yankton S Dak NorfolkColumbusYork | 287 |
Hot Springs S Dak ChadronAlliance | 301 |
Missouri Valley IowaFremontGrand Island | 325 |
TOUR 8A MaxwellFort McPherson National Cemetery | 348 |
Sidney IowaNebraska CityLincolnGrand | 360 |
The Press | 133 |
BEATRICE | 147 |
FREMONT | 154 |
GRAND ISLAND | 162 |
HASTINGS | 169 |
LINCOLN | 176 |
NORFOLK | 205 |
NORTH PLATTE | 211 |
Rockport Mo BrownvilleBeatriceFranklin | 372 |
OgallalaOshkoshBridgeportScottsbluff | 382 |
TOUR 12A BridgeportChimney RockGeringScotts Bluff | 388 |
Junction with US 20PoncaNiobraraLynchButte | 394 |
CHRONOLOGY | 401 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 407 |
INDEX | 413 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 410 - descending the upper part of the river in canoes, when their frail barks were overturned and all their powder spoiled. Their rifles being thus rendered useless, they were unable to procure food by hunting and had to depend upon roots and wild fruits for subsistence. After suffering extremely from hunger, they arrived at Laramie's Fork . . . about sixty miles above the cliffs.
Página 125 - ti-yi-yo! Git along little dogies! It's your misfortune and none of my own! Whoopee, ti-yi-yo! Git along little dogies! For you know Wyoming will be your new home!
Página 108 - My clothes are plastered o'er with dough, I'm looking like a fright, And everything is scattered round the room, But I wouldn't give the freedom that I have out in the West For the table of the Eastern man's old home.
Página 125 - I've worked down in Nebraska Where the grass grows ten feet high, And the cattle are such rustlers That they seldom ever die; I've worked up in the sand hills And down upon the Platte Where the cowboys are good fellows And the cattle always fat
Página 6 - The names given by the Indians are always remarkably appropriate; and certainly none was ever more so than that which they have given to this stream—the Nebraska, or Shallow River!
Página 50 - It is a region destined by the barrenness of its soil, the inhospitable character of its climate, and by other physical disadvantages, to be the abode of perpetual desolation.
Página 405 - At 134 m. is the junction with a dirt road. Right on this road to the SCOTTSBLUFF EXPERIMENT FARM (open to
Página 219 - Chicago & North Western Ry. ; Chicago Great Western RR; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RR; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RR;
Página 198 - God sifted a whole nation that He might send choice grain into the wilderness.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State American guide series |
| Compilado por | Federal Writers' Project |
| Colaboradores | Nebraska State Historical Society, Marvin F. Kivett |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | U of Nebraska Press, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0803268513, 9780803268517 |
| Largo | 424 páginas |
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