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Nebraska author Mari Sandoz remarked that most people see Nebraska as "that long flat state that sets between me and any place I want to go." If so, they're missing plenty, as this entertaining volume makes abundantly clear. Susan A. Wunder and John R. Wunder's new, expanded, and updated edition of Donald R. Hickey's classic account of defining Nebraska moments showcases triumph, tragedy, comedy, and accomplishments that could have happened nowhere else and that reveal the rich culture and history under the state's deceptively quiet surface. There are moments that shine—surviving the Oregon and Mormon trails; completing the Union Pacific Railroad; and winning national football championships, Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, and presidential nominations. There are also moments of darkness such as the murders of Crazy Horse, Malcolm X, and Brandon Teena; the lynchings of Will Brown and Juan Gonzalez; and the Blizzard of 1888. Together they evoke a dramatic history populated with the likes of Pedro Villasur, Willa Cather, and William Jennings Bryan. This new edition also mines Nebraska's most recent history, adding to the ever-changing, ever-intriguing picture of this Great Plains state.
Contents
Introduction
Timeline 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 the 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
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 General 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
30 The Nebraska Home Front and World War II
31 Nebraska's Visual Feast
32 Nebraska's Scientists
33 Offutt Air Force Base
34 The Ogallala Aquifer
35 Leaders in the Making: Omaha's Gerald Ford and Malcolm X
36 Becoming Madame Governor
37 The University of Nebraska Football Champions
38 The Murder of Brandon Teena
39 The Kearney Arch
