Nebraska: Nebraska State Historical Society
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWQB_the-republican-river-flood-of-1935_Oxford-NE.html
On May 30, 1935, torrential rains fell in eastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska; by early morning of the 31st, the usually peaceful Republican River was running bluff-to-bluff along its upper reaches. When the waters subsided two days later, over 100 l…
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On September 3, 1855, the U.S. Army's 600-man Sioux Expedition, commanded by Col William S. Harney, attacked and destroyed a Lakota village located three miles north on Blue Creek. The fight became known as the Battle of Blue Water, sometimes the Battle of …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMYKB_cowboy-capital_Ogallala-NE.html
Named for the Oglala band of Dakota Sioux and located on the Union Pacific Railroad, Ogallala was a lusty cowtown of the Old West. From 1875 to 1886 it was a wild and woolly cowboy capital where gold flowed across the gaming tables, liquor across the bar, a…
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Boot Hill was the final resting place for many early westerners who helped make Ogallala a booming cowtown in the 1870's and 1880's. These people, the cowboys, settlers, and drifters, came to Ogallala when the railroad and the Texas Trail opened a new marke…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMYKI_california-hill_Brule-NE.html
The large hill to the north, which became known as "California Hill," was climbed by thousands of covered wagon emigrants heading west between 1841 and 1860. Many were bound for Oregon. California became the destination of the majority of travelers after go…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMYKK_sam-bass-and-the-big-springs-robbery_Big-Springs-NE.html
The first and greatest robbery of a Union Pacific train took place near here on the night of September 18, 1877. The legendary Sam Bass and five companions, after capturing John Barnhart, station-master, and destroying the telegraph, forced Union Pacific ex…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMYKY_waterman-sod-house_Big-Springs-NE.html
The Wallace W. and Libby King Waterman sod house, located nine miles north of here on the Day Road, was built about 1886. The original dwelling had three rooms. In 1925 it was enlarged and remodeled by Virgil and Helen Burke Waterman, and the sod walls were…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMYL1_phelps-hotel_Big-Springs-NE.html
The Phelps Hotel was built in 1885 by the Edwin A. Phelps family, who were among the first settlers in the Big Springs area. Also known as the "House of Three Chimneys," the hotel was the most important nineteenth-century landmark in Deuel County. It served…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMYVS_the-chadron-chicago-cowboy-race_Chadron-NE.html
America's longest horse race began here June 13, 1893. The 1,000 mile race ended June 27 in Chicago at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The race apparently was the idea of Chadron jokester John G. Maher. Seven of nine riders finished, some traveling up to nin…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMZWV_the-villasur-expedition_Columbus-NE.html
In June 1720 a Spanish military force led by Sir Pedro de Villasur left Santa Fe, New Mexico, to gather information on French activities near the Missouri River. The force included 45 veteran soldiers, 60 Pueblo Indian allies, some Apache scouts, and a prie…