Nebraska An Illustrated History Book

	List of Illustrations
	Preface and Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Place and the People	1
Pt. 1	Before Statehood: A Place on the Way to Somewhere Else	7
1	The First Nebraskans	11
2	The Fur Trade in Nebraska	17
3	Exploration on the Plains: Soldiers, Scientists, and Artists	22
4	Fort Atkinson: Army Outpost on the Missouri	27
5	Steamboats on the Missouri	30
6	The Overlanders	36
7	The Creation of Nebraska Territory	42
8	Nebraska's Founders: Speculators and Politicians	48
9	The Territorial Economy	54
10	Building the Transcontinental Railroad	59
11	Getting Land: The Farmers' Frontier	66
12	Nebraska in the Civil War	70
Pt. 2	A Fledgling State: Nebraska's First Quarter Century	77
13	A Capital Controversy	81
14	A Network of Rails	88
15	Towns on the Plains	93
16	Hard Times in the 1870s	102
17	Beef Bonanza: The Range Cattle Industry	106
18	The Boom before the Bust	113
19	Farming on the Plains: The Role of Technology	117
20	Log Cabins and Sod Houses	123
21	Making a Home on the Nebraska Frontier	130
22	A Flood of European Immigrants	136
23	Strangers in Their Own Land	142
24	Forts and Soldiers on the Nebraska Frontier	151
25	African Americans in Nineteenth-Century Nebraska	157
26	The Little School House on the Prairie	164
27	When Higher Education Was Lower	171
28	Churches and Politics in 1890	178
29	Nebraska Politics, Nineteenth-Century Style	185
Pt. 3	The Emergence of Modern Nebraska, 1890-1930	191
30	Facing Environmental Realities	195
31	The Populist Response to Hard Times	204
32	The Emergence of Omaha as Nebraska's Metropolis	210
33	Lincoln as the Athens of the Plains	218
34	The Progressive Movement in Nebraska	225
35	Political Giants: Bryan and Norris	231
36	World War I in Nebraska	237
37	Race Riot in Omaha, 1919	245
38	The Legacy of Samuel McKelvie	250
39	Nebraskans Build a Monumental Capitol, 1920-1934	254
40	Back Home on the Farm in the 1920s	259
41	The Big Change: The 1920s as Transition	267
Pt. 4	Drought, Depression, War, and Recovery, 1930-1970	275
42	The Dirty Thirties: Drought and Depression	279
43	The Unicameral: Nebraska's Unique Legislature	288
44	Public Power Comes to Nebraska	292
45	World War II in Nebraska	298
46	From Fort Crook to Strategic Air Command Headquarters	307
47	Higher Education in the Postwar Decades, 1945-1970	313
48	Nebraska Agriculture in the Postwar World	318
49	Interstate 80	323
50	The Tiemann Legacy	328
51	African-American Unrest in Omaha	333
Pt. 5	Change in Contemporary Nebraska, 1970-1995	339
52	Agriculture in Contemporary Nebraska	343
53	Nebraska's Changing Economy	349
54	Changes in Nebraska's Population	353
55	Education in a Technological Era	357
56	Minorities in Contemporary Nebraska	362
57	Two Decades of Politics, 1970-1990	367
58	The Quality of Life in Nebraska	373
	Readings in Nebraska History	379
	Index	383