Nebraska Moments

Name: Nebraska Moments
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ISBN: 9780803260399

ISBN-10: 0803260393

ISBN-13: 9780803260399

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Donald R. Hickey, Susan A. Wunder, John R. Wunder, Susan Wunder, John Wunder

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Nebraska author Mari Sandoz remarked that most people see Nebraska as “that long flat state that sets between me and any place I want to go.” If so, they’re missing plenty, as this entertaining volume makes abundantly clear. Susan A. Wunder and John R. Wunder’s new, expanded, and updated edition of Donald R. Hickey’s classic account of defining Nebraska moments showcases triumph, tragedy, comedy, and accomplishments that could have happened nowhere else and that reveal the rich culture and history under the state’s deceptively quiet surface. nbsp; There are moments that shine—surviving the Oregon and Mormon trails; completing the Union Pacific Railroad; and winning national football…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Donald R. Hickey is a professor of history at Wayne State College. Susan A. Wunder is an associate professor of education at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. John R. Wunder is a professor of history and journalism at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.



List of Illustrations


List of Maps


Timeline of Nebraska Moments


Preface



The Villasur Expedition



Old Bellevue



The Oregon Trail



The Kansas-Nebraska Act



The Pony Express



Daniel Freeman and Homesteading



Nebraska Statehood and Its First Governor



The Fight for the Capital



Red Cloud and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868



The Union Pacific Railroad



The Murder of Crazy Horse at Fort Robinson



The Trial of Standing Bear



"Buffalo Bill" Cody and the Wild West Show



The Great Nebraska Migration



J. Sterling Morton and Arbor Day



The Blizzard of '88



William Jennings Bryan and Agrarian Protest



The Rise of Omaha



Charles E. Bessey and the Nebraska National Forest



Gen. John J. Pershing and World War I



Fr. Edward Flanagan, the Abbott Sisters, and Nebraska's Children



The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and Nebraska's Doctors



Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)



Willa Cather and Her Pulitzer Prize



The Nebraska State Capitol, Great Plains Icon



Nebraska's Would-be Vice Presidents



The Pound Family



Nebraska's Literary Renaissance



George W. Norris and the Unicameral



The Nebraska Home Front and World War II



Nebraska's Visual Feast



Nebraska's Scientists



Offutt Air Force Base



The Ogallala Aquifer



Omaha's Gerald Ford and Malcolm X



Becoming Madam Governor



The University of Nebraska Football Champions



The Murder of Brandon Teena



The Kearney Arch


Index