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Pioneer Sketches Nebraska And Texas, W. Straley

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Chapters on white colonization of Nebraska and Texas, pulled together by W. Straley, editor of the Nuckolls County Herald in Nelson, Nebraska and the News-Review in Hico, Texas.

Contents

• Ox Team Days
• Trying Times in 1873
• Early Days in Nuckolls County
• Recollections of Pioneer Life
• Some First Things
• Reminisences of 1873-4
• Death of James Parkerson, Aged 118 Years
• The Famous Dove Creek Fight
• Murder of Ann Whitney and Amanda Howard's Bravery
• The Beautiful Steer
• Interesting Events of Early Days
• First Wagon Though Town of Indian Gap
• First Election Held in Bosque County
• Early Schools of Dublin, Texas
• Death of Prof. …

Dorsey - Dist. #4, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on the Dorsey School, located 11 miles south, 5 miles east, 1/2 mile north of Lynch in Holt County, Nebraska. Includes a history of the Dorsey School and a letter from Lucille Pinkerman, a rural school teacher.

Denmon School, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Denmon School, located 5 miles south and 2 miles east of Shelton.

Curly School - Dist. #12, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Curly School, located 17 miles west of Hemingford, in Sioux County, Nebraska.

Sanborn - Dist. #41, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Sanborn School, located in Dundy County, Nebraska. Detailed information on the history and the physical building.

Center School - Dist. #185, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Center School in Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska. Included is a publication that lists a number of rural schools that were in the area, with pictures of some. There is also a description of Center School by a former pupil and a letter from Lorraine Smith that has additional information.

Panhandle School, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on the Panhandle School, located 17 miles south of Harrison, in Sioux County, Nebraska.

Klondike School - Dist. #46, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on the Klondike School, located 12 miles north and west of Harrison, in Sioux County, Nebraska.

Hutchinson - Dist. #23, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Hutchinson School, located about 14 miles northeast of Oshkosh in Garden County, Nebraska.

Grandview - Dist. #48, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Grandview School (also called the Buckley School), located 18 miles south of Harrison, in Sioux County, Nebraska.

Fischer - Dist. #27, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Fischer School, located 1 mile west, 5 miles north, and 1 mile west of Rulo in Richardson County, Nebraska.

Park Center School, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Park Center School, located in Antelope County, Nebraska.

Ash Hollow Rock - Dist. #55, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Ash Hollow Rock School, also called Clary School, located 5 miles southeast of Lewellen in Garden County, Nebraska.

Nebraska, Ancient Order Of Hibernians

Ancient Order of Hibernians (United States)

Correspondence from 1902-1906 to James P. Bree, the National Secretary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, New Haven, Connecticut. The correspondence, concerning Nebraska AOH business, includes letters primarily from Lincoln and Omaha written by State Secretary D.J. Stafford and Dr. McCrann

Mixed Grove - Dist. #9, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Mixed Grove School, 6 miles south and one mile east of Arcadia in Sherman County, Nebraska.

Mill School - Dist. #88, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Mill School, also referred to as the Colclessor School. Located 11 miles south and 1 mile west of Rushville in Sheridan County, Nebraska.

Morningside School - Dist. #17, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on the Morningside School, located near Oakland in Burt County, Nebraska. Attached to the school form is a two page personal testimony about the quality of education in the country schools, presumably authored by Mary Ann Hansen, who is listed as the surveyor on the site form.

Ohme School - Dist. #22, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Ohme School, located 4 miles west and 2 miles north on Dailey and Custer County roads.

Hardscrabble - Dist. #84, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Hardscrabble School, located 8 miles south of Whitney in Dawes County, Nebraska.

Harold Warp School - Dist. #13, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on the Harold Warp School, now located on the grounds of Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. It includes a copy of the National Register nomination of the building.

Dist. #102, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

School Buildings

Information on District 102, located in Edison in Furnas County, Nebraska. Includes a picture of the historical marker erected in front of the schoolhouse.

Greenhill School - Dist. #120, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Greenhill School, in Buffalo County, Nebraska.

Flag Butte - Dist. #18, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on the Flag Butte School, located four miles west and eight miles south of Chadron, Nebraska.

Balsora School - Dist. #27, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Balsora School, located 5 miles southeast of Arcadia in Sherman County, Nebraska.

Buelah - Dist. #38, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Buelah School, District #38. It is near Lynch, in Boyd County, Nebraska.

Dist. #8, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on District #8, located about 7 miles south of Dix in Kimball County, Nebraska.

Illustrated Edition Of The Hastings Exchange Journal, Queen City Land Company

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Illustrated Edition of the Hastings Exchange Journal; Hastings, Nebraska; The Queen City of the West. Booklet designed to sell Hastings to potential land buyers.

From the book:

"Brief resume of her possessions, needs, and probabilities. Reliable facts and figures worthy of consideratio. Read it and preserve it for future reference."

Dist. #42, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on District #42, located in Sherman County, Nebraska. Includes correspondence between Mrs. Joe Abraham and Prof. Ernest Grundy regarding the history of the district.

Alfalfa Center - Dist. #114, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Alfalfa Center, located five miles west and one mile south of Kearney. Includes a page of Alfalfa Center trivia and a list of personnel at Alfalfa Center.

Westside School - Dist. #11, Country School Legacy: Humanities On The Frontier

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Information on Westside School, located 5 miles west of Arcadia in Custer County, Nebraska.