NEGenWeb Project
Nance County

     One of the most difficult undertakings in the line of literary work is the compilation and arrangement of statistical facts in a manner that will interest as well as instruct the ever critical reader.

     Such a task we have undertaken, endeavoring to furnish the patrons with a correct and reliable history of the county, the narrative of the pioneer days being written by Dr. A. L. Bixby and published in the Nance County Journal in 1881.

     Nance County, with two flowing rivers, many tributary streams and undulating valleys, presents a beautiful panorama of miles of waving corn, alfalfa and wheat fields, with immense groves of lofty trees to break the horizon.

     The county is thirty miles in length and fifteen in width, containing about 280,000 acres of rich, tillable soil, being one of the best watered sections in the state. Besides the Cedar and Loup, the latter called in an early day the Loup Fork of the Platte, are the smaller streams -- Plum, Council, Timber, Ash, Skeedee, Horse and Cottonwood Creeks.

     The great strides made in the way of progress in settling this territory is well known, as many of the old settlers are living here today, and several landmarks are standing, and much of the Indian folk lore still hangs over the picturesque bluffs underneath which the Indiana formerly trapped for beaver, with their tepees pitched under the oak trees beside the winding Cedar.

     Fullerton, the County Seat, is the largest city in the county, having a population of about 2,000, and is strictly up-to-date in the way of public improvements, and has all that goes to make a town a desirable place in which to live.

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