Nebraska Moments
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Nebraska Moments

  1. 428 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Nebraska Moments by Donald R. Hickey,Susan A. Wunder,John R. Wunder in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & North American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. List of Maps
  6. Timeline of Nebraska Moments
  7. Preface
  8. 1. The Villasur Expedition
  9. 2. Old Bellevue
  10. 3. The Oregon Trail
  11. 4. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
  12. 5. The Pony Express
  13. 6. Daniel Freeman and Homesteading
  14. 7. Nebraska Statehood and Its First Governor
  15. 8. The Fight for the Capital
  16. 9. Red Cloud and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
  17. 10. The Union Pacific Railroad
  18. 11. The Murder of Crazy Horse at Fort Robinson
  19. 12. The Trial of Standing Bear
  20. 13. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and the Wild West Show
  21. 14. The Great Nebraska Migration
  22. 15. J. Sterling Morton and Arbor Day
  23. 16. The Blizzard of ’88
  24. 17. William Jennings Bryan and Agrarian Protest
  25. 18. The Rise of OmahaThe
  26. 19. Charles E. Bessey and the Nebraska National Forest
  27. 20. Gen. John J. Pershing and World War I
  28. 21. Fr. Edward Flanagan, the Abbott Sisters,and Nebraska’s Children
  29. 22. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 andNebraska’s Doctors
  30. 23. Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)
  31. 24. Willa Cather and Her Pulitzer Prize
  32. 25. The Nebraska State Capitol, Great Plains Icon
  33. 26. Nebraska’s Would-be Vice Presidents
  34. 27. The Pound Family
  35. 28. Nebraska’s Literary Renaissance
  36. 29. George W. Norris and the Unicameral
  37. 30. The Nebraska Home Front and World War II
  38. 31. Nebraska’s Visual Feast
  39. 32. Nebraska’s Scientists
  40. 33. Offutt Air Force Base
  41. 34. The Ogallala Aquifer
  42. 35. Omaha’s Gerald Ford and Malcolm X
  43. 36. Becoming Madam Governor
  44. 37. The University of Nebraska Football Champions
  45. 38. The Murder of Brandon Teena
  46. 39. The Kearney Arch
  47. Index