History of Nebraska - Wikipedia
WEBA typical development program was that undertaken by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad to promote settlement in southeastern Nebraska during 1870–80. The company participated enthusiastically in the boosterism campaigns …
WEBsuch as A. T. Andreas’s History of the State of Ne-braska (1882) and Cox’s 1870 Nebraska Census, indicate that the counties are listed in the census, and give their populations. Andreas states that five of the counties “never had a legal existence,” but says of Grant that there are “no records by which to account for its disappearance ...
Pioneer Social Life - Nebraska State Historical Society - History Nebraska
WEBThe Nebraska State Historical Society was founded in 1878 by citizens who recognized Nebraska was going through great changes and they sought to record the stories of both indigenous and immigrant peoples.
Nebraska Roundups in the 1870s
WEBNebraska Roundups in the 1870s. Lee Brothers Ranch at Brownlee, Cherry County, in 1900. RG2608-1837 (left). By the mid-1870s Nebraska’s open-range cattle industry, centered in the western Platte Valley and the Panhandle, was experiencing growing pains.
1870s Nebraska Roundup | Nebraskaland Magazine
WEBMay 23, 2022 · Nebraskaland features the stories and photographs of guest authors who write hunting, fishing, travel, history and people features. By the mid-1870s, Nebraska’s open-range cattle industry was experiencing ownership disputes …
Census Records of Nebraska - USGenNet
WEBApr 1, 2002 · NSHS has an index to the 1870 for NE. NOTE: Some counties were extracted by Evelyn Cox of Washington. Following her death, those extracts were sent to NEGenWeb as a memorial by the Kititas County Genealogical Society.
The End of the Bison - Nebraska Studies
WEBThe cattle infected the bison with new diseases: the dangerous brucellosis as well as Texas tick fever, which dramatically weakened the bison herds. Then in 1870, a process was developed that so bison hides could be commercially tanned into soft, flexible leather.
Immigrant Nebraska - Because we forget, we must tell the story …
WEBAs the graph above shows, by 1870, Nebraska’s immigrant population was at its peak, and 25% of the state’s residents were born in a foreign country. Danes, Swedes, Irish, Germans, and Czechs figured prominently among the earliest newcomers.
Old Historical City, County and State Maps of Nebraska - MapGeeks
WEBThis Interactive Map of Nebraska Counties show the historical boundaries, names, organization, and attachments of every county, extinct county and unsuccessful county proposal from the creation of the Nebraska territory in 1854 to 1925.
African American Settlers - Nebraska Studies
WEBAfrican Americans were more likely to settle in western Nebraska, as there was more land available for them under the Homestead Act. In 1870, there were 789 African Americans living in Nebraska. That number exploded to 8,900 by 1890.