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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. …