While occupying the center of the continental United States, the state of Nebraska remains outside the comprehension of most Americans. Contrary to the popular image of a flat, treeless landscape from horizon to horizon, the state offers a variety of topography. It has long supported a mixed economy of agriculture, livestock production, and industry. In its historical development, it has embraced ...

Manufacturer: Greenwood Press

Manufacturer: Festner Print. Co
Written By: Harriet S MacMurphy

Manufacturer: DCI
Written By: Janet D Weir

1966 College Yearbook for Nebraska Wesleyan University

Manufacturer: Wesleyan University

'Lawrence Larsen and his wife Barbara Cottrell have written a marvelous urban biography. They have done what other historians often fail to do - relate local happenings to the larger regional and national picture. And Larsen and Cottrell have skillfully used sophisticated historical works and concepts, incorporating them in an understandable fashion. Throughout this book the authors write in a ...

Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Written By: Lawrence H. Larsen, Barbara J. Cottrell

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, ...

Manufacturer: Bison Books
Written By: Donald R. Hickey, Susan A Wunder, John R. Wunder

First 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, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts, . . .of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheep-men, of the tragic scarcity of ...

Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Written By: Mari Sandoz