
- 428 pages
- English
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Nebraska Moments
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
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- 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
- 16. The Blizzard of ’88
- 17. William Jennings Bryan and Agrarian Protest
- 18. The Rise of OmahaThe
- 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 andNebraska’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. 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