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The Czechs Of Butler County, 1870-1940, Clarence John Kubicek
The Czechs Of Butler County, 1870-1940, Clarence John Kubicek
Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The Czechs and their descendents make up one of the large groups that settled and developed the State of Nebraska. While every county of Nebraska may have a few Czechs within its confines, the largest numbers are found in Douglas, Saline, Colfax, Saunders, and Butler Counties.
It is the purpose of this thesis to deal with the Czechs of Butler County. A racial group, Slavic in origination and since the first World War, properly called the "Czechs." The term "Czech" is to be applied, not only to those whose ancestry goes back to Bohemia, but also to those who originally …