Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska

Containing a History of the State of Nebraska Embracing an account of Early Explorations, Early Settlement, Indian Occupancy, Indian History and Traditions; Territorial and State Organization; a Review of the Political History; and a Concise History of the Growth and Development of the State.

Compendium of Reminiscence and Biography containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and Representative Citizens Of Nebraska.

With a review of their life work; their identity with the growth and development of the State; Reminiscences of Personal History and Pioneer Life, and other interesting and valuable matter which should be preserved in history.

• Natural Resources
  • Topography
  • Soil, Agriculture and Stock Raising
  • Irrigation in Nebraska
  • Statistics
• Early Explorations and History
  • Treaty of Cession between the United States of America and the French Republic
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Otoes, A Powerful Nation
  • Expeditions to the new Territory of Louisiana
    • Manuel Lisa
    • American Fur Company
    • Major Stephen H. Long
    • Colonel John C. Fremont
    • Nebraska Highway to the West
    • Nebraska Becomes a Territory
• Nebraska Territorial Organization
  • Organic Act (text which created the Territory of Nebraska
  • First Territorial Officers
  • Second and Third Officers
  • Nebraska Territorial Officials 1857-1859
  • Nebraska Territorial Officials 1860-1866
  • Nebraska as a State, 1867
• State Organization
• Territorial Officers
• State Officers
• Legislative and Official Roster
• State Societies, Institutions
• Railroad Building in Nebraska
• Locust or Grasshoppers
• Public Lands
• Educational Institutions
• Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska

Source: Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography Of Nebraska, Alden Publishing Company, Chicago, 1912

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