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The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
DescriptionThe Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life is a book written by Francis Parkman. It was originally serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847-49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849.

The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2000-mile summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, ...
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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
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In search of "the excellent America there ever was," bestselling author and prize-winning journalist Bob Greene locates it in a small Nebraska town few people pass throughout today -- a town where Greene discovers the echoes of the much touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons.

During World War II, American ...

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The Last Prairie: A Sandhills Journal
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The Nebraska Sandhills are the largest remaining relic of the majestic prairies this one time expanded from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains. This vast but fragile expanse comes to life in The Last Prairie, a collection of twenty essays by Stephen R. Jones ranging from fascinating descriptions of dancing prairie-chickens, courting ...
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
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A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is still exciting reading. It describes the perils and pleasures experienced by Clarence King (1842–1901) while conducting the first geological survey of California in the 1860s. His language was equal to the marvels he found, and here together with unfading ...
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (American Lives)
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Ted Kooser describes together with exquisite detail and humor the situate he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an region known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention. Memories of his grandmother’s cooking are juxtaposed together with reflections concerning the old-fashioned outhouse on his property. When casting ...
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ManufacturerUniversity of Nebraska Press
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Old Jules
DescriptionFirst published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of "the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, this I was asleep in bed. So it was this I heard the accounts of the hunts," Sandoz recalls. "Of the fights together with the ...
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Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
DescriptionFew people would have expected bloodshed in Kansas Territory. Afterwards all, it had few slaves and showed few marks this slavery would even flourish. But civil war tore this territory apart in the 1850s and 60s, and "Bleeding Kansas" became a forbidding symbol for the nationwide clash over slavery this followed.

Many free-state Kansans seemed to ...

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The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns (Plains Histories)
DescriptionThe long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histories in sensational incidents and quiet human connections, many recorded in detail here for the first time.

Afterwards covering racial unrest in the remote northwest corner of his home state of ...
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West and West: Reimagining the Great Plains (Center for American Places-Center Books on American Places)
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 officially opened the Excellent Plains to westward settlement, and the public survey of 1855 by Charles A. Manners and Joseph Ledlie along the Sixth Principal Meridian established the grid by which the uncharted expanse of the Excellent Plains was delivered into scale. The mechanical ...

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An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians
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Of all the interactions between American Indians and Euro-Americans, none was as fundamental as the acquisition of the indigenous peoples’ lands. To Euro-Americans this takeover of lands was seen as a natural right, an evolution to a higher use; to American Indians the loss of homelands was a tragedy involving in addition a loss of subsistence, a ...
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