Nebraska Moments Book

List of Illustrations     vii
List of Maps     x
Timeline of Nebraska Moments     xi
Preface     xv
The Villasur Expedition     1
Old Bellevue     9
The Oregon Trail     15
The Kansas-Nebraska Act     23
The Pony Express     30
Daniel Freeman and Homesteading     37
Nebraska Statehood and Its First Governor     47
The Fight for the Capital     55
Red Cloud and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868     63
The Union Pacific Railroad     73
The Murder of Crazy Horse at Fort Robinson     81
The Trial of Standing Bear     92
"Buffalo Bill" Cody and the Wild West Show     102
The Great Nebraska Migration     110
J. Sterling Morton and Arbor Day     121
The Blizzard of '88     129
William Jennings Bryan and Agrarian Protest     135
The Rise of Omaha     145
Charles E. Bessey and the Nebraska National Forest     154
Gen. John J. Pershing and World War I     160
Fr. Edward Flanagan, the Abbott Sisters, and Nebraska's Children     171
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and Nebraska's Doctors     182
Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)     192
Willa Cather and Her Pulitzer Prize     204
The Nebraska State Capitol, Great Plains Icon     213
Nebraska's Would-be Vice Presidents     221
The Pound Family     234
Nebraska's Literary Renaissance     148
George W. Norris and the Unicameral     261
The Nebraska Home Front and World War II     271
Nebraska's Visual Feast     280
Nebraska's Scientists     290
Offutt Air Force Base     301
The Ogallala Aquifer     308
Omaha's Gerald Ford and Malcolm X     317
Becoming Madam Governor     331
The University of Nebraska Football Champions     342
The Murder of Brandon Teena     358
The Kearney Arch     370
Index     381