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" Nebraska moments / "
Donald R. Hickey, Susan A. Wunder, John R. Wunder.
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BL
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1043165
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b797535
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Hickey, Donald R.,1944-
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Nebraska moments /\ Donald R. Hickey, Susan A. Wunder, John R. Wunder.
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New ed.
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Lincoln :: University of Nebraska Press,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (xix, 403 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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080321572X
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: 1281092452
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: 6611092455
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: 9780803215726
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: 9781281092458
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: 9786611092450
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0803260393
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9780803260399
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| Notes
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"A Bison original"--Page 4 of cover.
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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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
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16. 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
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30. 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
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An 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.
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HISTORY-- State Local.
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Nebraska, History, Anecdotes.
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Nebraska, History.
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Nebraska.
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978.2
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F666.H595 2007eb
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Wunder, John R.
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Wunder, Susan A.
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