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  THE WORK OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
   By John Lee Webster, President . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
               
  HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA
   By John F. Cordeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
               
  NEBRASKA, MOTHER OF STATES
   By Albert Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
               
  NEBRASKA TERRITORIAL ACQUISITION
   By Albert Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
               
  ADDRESSES BY JAMES MOONEY
   Life Among the Indian Tribes of the Plains . . . . . .  88
   The Indian Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  95
   Systematic Nebraska Ethnologic Investigation . . . . . 103
               
  A TRAGEDY OF THE OREGON TRAIL
   By George W. Hansen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  110
               
  THE OREGON RECRUIT EXPEDITION
   By Albert Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  127
               
 INFLUENCE OF OVERLAND TRAVEL ON THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF
    NEBRASKA
       By H. G. Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
               
 INCIDENTS OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF NUCKOLLS COUNTY
   By George D. Follmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
               
 FIRST STEAMBOAT TRIAL TRIP UP THE MISSOURI
   By Albert Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  162
               
 ORIGIN OF OLATHA, NEBRASKA
   By Cicero L. Bristol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
               
 THE SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES OF WEBSTER, NUCKOLLS AND FRANKLIN
   COUNTIES, NEBRASKA
       By Rev. Dennis G. Fitzgerald . . . . . . . . . . . 209
               
 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF CHEYENNE COUNTY, NEBRASKA
   By Albert Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  218
               
 ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTIES OF KEARNEY, FRANKLIN, HARLAN
   AND PHELPS
        BY Albert Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

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 ANNUAL ADDRESS OF JOHN LEE WEBSTER, President, 1913 . . 232
               
   ADVENTURES ON THE PLAINS, 1865-67
      By Dennis Farrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  247
               
 AN INDIAN RAID OF 1867
   By John R. Campbell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
               
 HOW SHALL THE INDIAN BE TREATED HISTORICALLY
   By Harry L. Keefe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
               
 IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY OF LOCAL HISTORY
   By James E. Le Rossignol . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  285
               
 HISTORY
   By Right Reverend J. Henry Tihen . . . . . . . . . .  293
               
 THE PATHFINDERS, THE HISTORIC BACKGROUND OF WESTERN
   CIVILIZATION
         By Heman C. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
               
 AN INTERESTING HISTORICAL DOCUMENT
   By Albert Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
               
 MEMORABILIA--GEN. G. M. DODGE
   By Albert Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
               
 A STUDY IN THE ETHNOBOTANY OF THE OMAHA INDIANS
   By Melvin Randolph Gilmore . . . . . . . . . . . . .  314
               
 SOME NATIVE NEBRASKA PLANTS WITH THEIR USES BY THE DAKOTA
   By Melvin Randolph Gilmore . . . . . . . . . . . . .  358

  Portrait--John Lee Webster . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece 
               
  George Winslow. Original Marker at Winslow Grave. Present
               
    Monument at Winslow Grave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
               
  The Steamer Yellowstone on April 19, 1833 . . . . . . . . 131
               
  Snags (Sunken Trees) on the Missouri . . .	. . . . .  199

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