Proceedings & Collections - NSHS

PROCEEDINGS AND COLLECTIONS

OF THE

NEBRASKA

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

SECOND SERIES. VOL. II.

"Tree NSHS Seal Planters"

LINCOLN, NEB.:

STATE JOURNAL COMPANY, PRINTERS.

1898.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
		PAGE
I.--HISTORICAL PAPERS		11 - 189
	The Poncas, by Jay Amos Barrett	11 - 25
	Life of Captain P. S. Real, by Rev. William Murphy	26 - 35
	Bellevue, by J. Q. Goss	36 - 47
	Edward Morin, by I. A. Fort	48 - 52
	Travelers in Nebraska in 1866, by J. P. Dunlap	53 - 57
	The Cost of Local Government - Then and Now, by J. Sterling
	Morton	58 - 69
	Underground Railroad in Nebraska, by Alice A. Minick	70 - 79
	Biographical Sketch of W. W. Dennison, by I. A. Fort	80 - 82
	Social and Economic Progress, 1855-1897, J. Sterling Morton	83 - 87
	The First Territorial Legislature	88 - 161
	Reminiscences, by H. P. Bennett	88 - 92
	Robert B. Whitted, by J. M. Whitted	92
	Joseph D. N. Thompson. by J. C. Thompson	92 - 94
	A. J. Poppleton, by J. M. Woolworth and W. S. Poppleton	94 - 108
	Tribute to Mr. Poppleton, by J. Sterling Morton	108 - 110
	J. W. Paddock, by J. Sterling Morton	110 - 115
	Sketches of Members of the Legislature of 1855, by S. E. Rogers.	115 - 120
	B. B. Thompson. by J. C. Thompson	120 - 123
	Biographical Fragments, by Jay Amos Barrett	124 - 134
	Results of the Pioneer Session: Views of M. B. Reese, J. H.
	Broady, J. R. Webster, S. B. Pound, and Samuel Maxwell	135 - 161
	Nebraska Women in 1855, by Harriet S. MacMurphy	162 - 178
	The Death Of Sitting Bull, by E. G. Fechet	179 - 189
II.--PROCEEDINGS.		191 - 198
	INDEX (to portions I and II)	201 - 208
III.--PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEBRASKA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.		211 - 307

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, June 1, 1898.

To the Hon. Silas A. Holcomb, Governor of Nebraska :

   SIR - In accordance with the provisions of law, we herewith submit our report of the proceedings of the State Historical Society for the past year.

Very respectfully,
J. STERLING MORTON,
President.

HOWARD W. CALDWELL,
                   Secretary.

NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

OFFICERS: CONSTITUTING BOARD OF MANAGERS.

J. STERLING MORTON, President,	Nebraska City.
ROBERT W. FURNAS, First Vice-President,	Brownville.
G. M. LAMBERTSON, Second Vice-President,	Lincoln.
CHARLES H. GERE, Treasurer,	Lincoln.
HOWARD W. CALDWELL, Secretary,	Lincoln.

COMMITTEES.

Publication - THE SECRETARY, S. L. GEISTHARDT, S. D. COX.
Program - THE SECRETARY, J. L. WEBSTER, J. M. WOOLWORTH.
Library - JAY AMOS BARRETT, MRS. S. B. POUND, PROF. F. M. FLING.