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The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23.

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...In an apocalyptic Nebraska, where it hasn't rained in years, water has become a valuable commodity. At a time when no one can be trusted, 16-year-old Rabbit, is about to find out, just how far the government will go, to reserve resources for t...

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... David Stein havia concluído o seu Ph.D em Arqueologia na Universidade de Nebraska at Omaha. Foi um dos mais distintos alunos do Prof. Arthur Jar...

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...rn", or "rice corn". Most of the world's popcorn ("prairie gold") is produced in Nebraska, Iowa and Indiana, in the United States. The kernel is ...

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...en by Willa Cather. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. Cather's wartime letters home to his mother. He was the first officer from Nebraska killed in World War I. Claude Wheeler, the subject of the novel, is a young man growing up on a Nebraska farm. The son of well to do parents, Claude is troubled by his apparent inability to find purpose with his life...

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...O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town near Glenvil) around the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable ent...

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...O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when other immigra...

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...elief and Ritual, Elaine Jahner and Raymond Demallie (eds.), University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1980. Walker, James R.: Lakota Myth, El... ..., 1980. Walker, James R.: Lakota Myth, Elaine Jahner (ed.), University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1983. Von Franz, M.L.: Projection and Re...

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.... A Theory of Reasoned Action: Some Applications and Implications. 1979 Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 27, 1979: 65-115. Foley, D. K. A statis...

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...le, Treasure, Valley, Wheatland, Wibaux, Yellowstone, Yellowstore National Park Nebraska: Tax Lien Certificate State 93 Counties Adams, Antelope, ...

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...lroad that he appeared to be part owner of. The other owners were from Omaha, Nebraska, and seemed to be in an awful hurry to get started. In one l...

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...s Telsfhonb 245-3 OBITUARIES '57 —Simeon Howard Calhoun, a former mayor of Nebraska city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age of 73. Mr. Calh... ... the class of 1857. After getting his LL. D. he entered into poli- tics in Nebraska. He served as state prosecuting attorney, as a member of the first... ...tate prosecuting attorney, as a member of the first senate of the state of Nebraska, and later as mayor of .Nebraska city. Mr. Calhoun was chairman of... ...his duties as professor of sociology and anthropology in the University of Nebraska. Asst.-Prof. Weston expects to spend the summer recess at his home... ...xpress bank, Aokley, Iowa. Redick is in the insurance busi- ness in Omaha, Nebraska. P. J. Dempsey OBALBR IN Fine Qreceries,Table Del- icacies, Etc. F... ...d D. Bird of New York city. The marriage will take place in June in Omaha, Nebraska. '01-Stanley H, Wbeelook '02, formerly of Lowell has been elect- e...

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...l law and the sanctity of the family.‖ —―Did you hear about the Nebraska senator who sued God? He wanted to show that anyone can sue anyon... ...asking for a permanent injunction against God. ―God can be sued in Nebraska because He is everywhere.‖ SELF-CENTERED ASSUMPTIONS -...

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...action costs fall, see Edmund W. Kitch, “Can the Internet Shrink Fair Use?,” Nebraska Law Review 78 (1999): 880–890; Robert P . Merges, “The End of Fr...

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... timeless cry of urban angst: “It is the feeling of loneliness I mind here--of being lost and no one to search for me.” (written at a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska in August 1888) Anyone with nostalgia for or curiosity about the Old American West will certainly enjoy this book. (Summary by Sue Anderson)...

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...mplete legal combination-piece of machinery, so to speak compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision. Let him consider, not only w... ...rd man shall be allowed to object. That argument was incorporated into the Nebraska Bill itself, in the language which follows: “It being the true int... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Three they voted the amendment. While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress, a law case, involving the quest... ...ugh the United States Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; and both Nebraska Bill and lawsuit were brought to a decision in the same month of M... ...rumbull, on the floor of the Senate, requested the leading advocate of the Nebraska Bill to state his opinion whether the people of a territory can co... ...ight be. Then, in a few days, came the decision. The reputed author of the Nebraska Bill finds an early oc- casion to make a speech at this capital in... ...t length a squabble springs up between the President and the author of the Nebraska Bill, on the mere question of fact, 7 The Writings of Abraham Lin... ... may he cling to it. That principle is the only shred left of his original Nebraska doctrine. Under the Dred Scott decision “squatter sovereignty” squ... ...cans, against the Lecompton Constitution, involves nothing of the original Nebraska doctrine. That struggle was made on a point—the right of a people ...

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... had proposed, particularly in connection with this question of Kansas and Nebraska, since he had been on the floor of the Senate, had been promptly v... ...self reopened it. When is it likely to come to an end? He intro- duced the Nebraska Bill in 1854 to put another end to the slavery agitation. He promi... ...slavery agitation will be than we can see the end of the world itself. The Nebraska-Kansas Bill was introduced four years and a half ago, and if the a... ... his speech) about the Compromise of 1850 containing the principles of the Nebraska Bill, although I have often presented my views upon that subject, ... ...ined, so far as I was able, that there was nothing of the principle of the Nebraska Bill in the Compro- mise of 1850 at all,—nothing whatever. Where c... ... of 1850 at all,—nothing whatever. Where can you find the principle of the Nebraska Bill in that Compromise? If any- where, in the two pieces of the C... ...ght or wrong; but how are the New Mexi- can and Utah laws patterns for the Nebraska Bill? I maintain that the organization of Utah and New Mexico did ... ...ollow these bills of New Mexico and Utah; and even when he introduced this Nebraska Bill, I think you will discover that he did not exactly follow the... ...not designed as patterns for future Territorial legislation; and that this Nebraska Bill did not follow them as a pattern at all. The Judge tells, in ...

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...e Compromise of 1850 was rudely broken by the introduc- tion of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in 1854. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, opening the T... ...d as one of the foremost men of the Whig party. Among the opponents of the Nebraska Bill he occupied in his State so important a position, that in 185... ... position, that in 1856 he was the choice of a large majority of the “Anti-Nebraska men” in the Legis- lature for a seat in the Senate of the United S... ...e vacant; and when he, an old Whig, could not obtain the votes of the Anti-Nebraska Democrats neces- sary to make a majority, he generously urged his ... ... popular meetings. As soon, therefore, as, after the passage of his Kansas-Nebraska Bill, Douglas returned to Illinois to defend his cause before his ... ...al opponent. Thus the struggle about the principles involved in the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, or, in a broader sense, the struggle between freedom and sla... ...e had sought to conciliate Northern sentiment by appending to his Kan- sas-Nebraska Bill the declaration that its intent was “not to legislate slavery...

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.... Let us inquire what Judge Douglas really invented when he introduced the Nebraska Bill? He called it Popular Sover- eignty. What does that mean? It ... ...pular sovereignty was floating about several ages before the author of the Nebraska Bill was born— indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent.... ... of calling the right to put a hundred “niggers” through under the lash in Nebraska a “sacred” right of self-government. And here I submit to you was ... ...e whole of it: He dis- covered that the right to breed and flog negroes in Nebraska was popular sovereignty. SPEECH A T CLINTON, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 8... ...n. On the fourth day of January, 1854, Judge Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska bill. He initiated a new policy, and that policy, so he says, was ... ... ill-feeling and agitation. According to Judge Douglas, the passage of the Nebraska bill would tran- quilize the whole country—there would be no more ... ...vely that the authors of the Compromise measures of 1850 and of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, as well as the mem- bers of the Continental Congress ... ...nt out the difference? The man who goes into the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, or any other new Terri- tory, with the sacred right of taking a s...

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...arallels. President Lincoln himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha, in Nebraska. The work was at once com- menced, and pursued with true American ... ...the boundary between the territories of Wyoming and Colorado. They entered Nebraska at eleven, passed near Sedgwick, and touched at Julesburg, on the ... ...m the south-west to the north-west by Great Island, Columbus, an important Nebraska town, Schuyler, and Fremont, to Omaha. It followed throughout the ... ...tation. The Pacific Railroad proper finds its terminus at this im- portant Nebraska town. Omaha is connected with Chicago by the Chicago and Rock Isla...

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... their sale, and came repeatedly to sit by me and cheer me up. THE PLAINS OF NEBRASKA IT HAD THUNDERED on the Friday night, but the sun rose on Saturd... ...d. We were at sea – there is no other adequate expression – on the plains of Nebraska. I made my observatory on the top of a fruit-waggon, and sat by ... ...emper may be quieted by sedative surroundings. But what is to be said of the Nebraskan settler? His is a wall-paper with a ven- geance – one quarter o... ...h the windows, in a kind of wailing chorus, to “come back.” On the plains of Nebraska, in the mountains of Wyoming, it was still the same cry, and dis...

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...ne welter of fertility. All over the United States, from the Dakotas, from Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Illi- nois, from all the wheat belt came steadi... ...o have definitely settled the question. But more especially Jadwin watched Nebraska, that State which is one single vast wheat field. How would Nebras... ...a, that State which is one single vast wheat field. How would Nebraska do, Nebraska which alone might feed an entire nation? County seat after county ... ...it with opened arms the cataract that poured in upon the Pit from Iowa and Nebraska, Minnesota and Dakota, from the dwindling bins of Illinois and the... ...again. From the farms of Illinois and Iowa, from the ranches of Kansas and Nebraska, from all the reaches of the Middle West, the Wheat, like a tidal ...

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...e within the limits of the township in Iowa opposite the town of Omaha, in Nebraska. Since then the 88 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven c... ...ted for one hundred miles west- ward from the initial point at Omaha City, Nebraska, and a preliminary location of the Pacific Railroad of California ...

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... just returned from a scientific research in the disagreeable territory of Nebraska, in the United States. In virtue of my office as Assistant Profess... ... French Government had attached me to that expedition. After six months in Nebraska, I ar- rived in New York towards the end of March, laden with a pr...

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...oad of America must remember the joy with which he perceived, after the tedious prairies of Nebraska and across the vast and dismal moorlands of Wyomi...

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...inois, Missouri, Kan- sas, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Territories of Dakota, Nebraska, and part of Colorado, already has above 10,000,000 people, and wi...

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...rew, M.A., D.D., LL.D. (The M.A. and the D.D. were from Elbert University, Nebraska, the LL.D. from Waterbury Col- lege, Oklahoma.) He was eloquent, e...

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...her Gopher Prairies. In winter, California is full of people from Iowa and Nebraska, Ohio and Oklahoma, who, having trav- eled thousands of miles from...

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...t. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. 142 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two NEBRASKA MEASURE TO J. M. PALMER [Confidential] SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 7, 1854.... ...7, 1854. HON. J. M. PALMER. DEAR SIR:—Y ou know how anxious I am that this Nebraska measure shall be rebuked and condemned everywhere. Of course I hop... ... whom I have ever been opposed in politics. Had your party omitted to make Nebraska a test of party fidelity, you probably would have been the Democra... ...ould have been given you. In that case I should have been quite happy that Nebraska was to be rebuked at all events. I still should have voted for the... ...dishonest to his client. Harris will be with you, head up and tail up, for Nebraska. You must have some one to make an anti-Nebraska speech. Palmer is... ...ion if they should be restricted in the “sacred right” of taking slaves to Nebraska. That perfect liberty they sigh for—the liberty of making slaves o... ...e Territory of Minnesota, and the present bone of con- tention, Kansas and Nebraska. Slavery already existed among the French at New Orleans, and to s... ...lied to Iowa, Minnesota, and to the present bone of contention, Kansas and Nebraska. Whether there should or should not be slavery south of that line,... ...the Illinois Legislature had indorsed it. During this long period of time, Nebraska (the Nebraska Territory, not the State of as we know it now) had r...

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...d myself that this would never happen again. I lied. On September 14, 2002 Nebraska came into Happy Valley for what would be another night game, anoth... ...ple on the memorable night that the football team completely dominated the Nebraska Cornhuskers, I knew I had accomplished my goal: to do anything and...

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...we come, Pioneers! O pioneers! Leaves of Grass –Whitman 240 From Nebraska, from Arkansas, Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with ... ...d self pois’d in the middle, branching thence over the world, From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn. Leaves of Grass –Whitman... ...y, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be, Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest, (Or afar, mounting the Northern...

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..., California and Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Nebraska, Washington, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada. I should be r... ... 75,321 California 384,770 Oregon 52,566 The Territories of— Dacotah 4,839 Nebraska 28,892 Washington 11,624 Utah 49,000 New Mexico 98,024 Colorado 34...

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...and do not fear man nor fortune. R. L. S. Letter: TO W. E. HENLEY CROSSING NEBRASKA [SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1879]. MY DEAR HENLEY , – I am sitting on th...

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...er this may be, though it has ever been my individual opinion that under the Nebraska Kansas act the appropriate period will be when the num ber of ...

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...ed existence. She had him, it was true, only in America, only in Texas, in Nebraska, in Arizona or somewhere—somewhere that, at old Fawns House in the...

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...a brigade composed of six full regi- ments commanded by Colonel Thayer, of Nebraska. As the gunboats were going around to Donelson by the T ennessee, ...

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... to W ash- ington, and the Vice President agreed. Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was chosen because of its elaborate command and control facilities...