People Behind the Places: Nebraska Counties Part 5 (T-Z)
We are to our final installment of "People Behind the Places: Nebraska Counties." Next week, we will look at "Places Behind the Places" to cover [...]
Inside the Museum of the Fur Trade near Chadron, Nebraska: Part 3
Life is looking up at the Museum of the Fur Trade. Place at a Glance Name/Location Museum of the Far Trade(located just east of Chadron, [...]
Flashback Friday: Life at a Trader Post (Museum of the Fur Trade: Part 2)
The unexpected part of our visit to the Museum of the Fur Trade near Chadron? Being able to walk around a replicated trading post area. [...]
Fur Trade Museum: A Worldwide Nebraska Attraction Part 1
Did anybody guess where we were yesterday? I almost posted this picture below yesterday. Would this have helped? This is a close up of a [...]
People Behind the Places: Nebraska Counties Part 4 (N-S)
Grasping the length of time necessary to identify all of the Nebraska counties escaped me. 93 counties was a theoretical number to me before. Now [...]
Friday Flashback: Marking the Oregon Trail Near Palmyra, Nebraska
If you did not know what you were looking for, you would drive right by. The rock almost blends in to fields behind. And all [...]
People Behind the Places: Nebraska Counties Part 3 (K-M)
One of my middle installments of this series, the details behind how Counties K-M were named in Nebraska! Kearney: Both the county and the town [...]
Flashback Friday: Harvard, Heroes, Holmes, Hawkins, Hartley, Herbie: Huskers’ Football Humble Heritage
Harvard: Where Roscoe Pound (Lincolnite and eventual dean of Harvard Law School) first became familiar with football. He shared his love of the sport, and [...]
People Behind the Places: Nebraska Counties Part 2 (E-J)
Here is part 2 of the naming of Nebraska counties. Will there be a part three? Probably so, as there are so many sections of [...]