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PROCEEDINGS AND COLLECTIONS

OF THE

 

NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL

SOCIETY

 

"Tree  NSHS Seal  Planters"

 

VOLUME FIFTEEN.

 

NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

(SERIES II--VOL. X.)

 

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

 

JACOB NORTH & CO., PRINTERS
1907


CONTENTS

Page

Officers and Office Staff

3

Letter of Transmittal

5

Historical Addresses

   Mormon Settlements in the Missouri Valley,

      By Clyde B. Aitchison

7

    Great Railroad Migration into Northern Nebraska,

       By John R. Buchanan

25

    Nebraska Politics and Nebraska Railroads,

       By John H. Ager

34

    Territorial Pioneer Days,

       Speeches at the Annual Meeting, 1902

45

    Campaigning Against Crazy Horse,

       By David Y. Mears

68

    Personal Recollections of Early Days in Decatur, Nebraska

       By Capt. Silas T. Leaming

77

    History of the Lincoln Salt Basin,

       By John H. Antes

83

    Early Days at the Salt Basin,

       By John S. Gregory

102

    Judicial Grafts,

       By Judge William Gaslin

108

    My Very First Visit to the Pawnee Village in 1855,

       By Gen. John M. Thayer

119

    Early Days on the Little Blue,

       By J. H. Lemmon

127

    Early Annals of Nebraska City,

       By John W. Pearman

133

    Dr. John McPherson,

       By Robert W. Furnas

143

    J. Sterling Morton,

       By Robert W. Furnas

147

    Henry A. Longsdorf, Pioneer of Sarpy County

153

    Biography of, and Tribute to the Memory of the Late Charles

            H. Gere,

       By Robert W. Furnas

158

    Robert Wilkinson Furnas

       By Henry H. Wilson

161

    Hibbard Houston Shedd,

       By George C. Shedd

168

    Railroad Taxation in Nebraska,

       By Norris Brown

174

    Work of the Union Pacific in Nebraska,

       By E. L. Lomax

181

    Early Dreams of Coal in Nebraska,

       By Dr. George L. Miller

189

    Unveiling of the Thayer Monument, Wyuka Cemetery

193


CONTENTS

Page

Proceedings of the Nebraska State Historical Society

    Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting, 1901

215

       Treasurer's Report

219

       Meeting of Board of Directors

220

    Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting, 1902

222

       Treasurer's Report

225

       Meeting of Board of Directors

226

    Twenty-sixth Annual, Meeting, 1903.

226

       Meeting of Board of Directors

231

    Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting, 1904

233

    Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting, 1905

238

       Proposition Made to State Agricultural Society

242

       Meeting of Board of Directors, January

243

       Meeting of Board of Directors, June

243

    Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting, 1906

246

       Treasurer's Report

249

       Draft of Proposition to Lincoln City Council

250

       Meeting of Board of Directors, May

251

       Meeting of Board of Directors, October

255

    Thirtieth Annual Meeting, 1907

257

       Meeting of Board of Directors, (special) February

262

       Treasurer's Report

265

       Reports of Committees

266

          Museum

266

          Library

268

          Marking Historic Sites

270

       Meeting of Board of Directors, April

274

       Meeting of Board of Directors, July

276

       Meeting of Heard of Directors, October

277

   Thirty-first Annual Meeting, 1908

281

       Reports of Committees

282

       Auditing

282

       Work of the Society (Special)

283

       Obituaries

284

       Report of the Secretary

288

       Treasurer's Report

310

       Report of Librarian

320

       Report of Archeologist, 1906

323

       Report of Archeologist, 1907

335

Museum Catalogue

359

Newspapers Received By the Society

382

Legislative Acts Affecting the Society

293

Constitution and By-Laws

399

Publications of the Society

402

INDEX

405


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