Download or read book Saline County Homesteaders written by Rose Marie Hulse and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The names [and legal descriptions] are compiled according to section so researchers can see who else homesteaded in the same section, possibly relatives." -- P. [i].
Download or read book Saline County Nebraska Homesteaders written by Rose Marie Hulse and published by . This book was released on 1985* with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saline County Nebraska Homesteaders written by and published by . This book was released on 1991* with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Plains Homesteaders written by Richard Edwards and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Plains Homesteaders tells the epic story of how millions of people, white and Black, women and men, young and old, and of many different religions, languages, and ethnic groups, moved to the Great Plains to claim land. Most were poor, so the government’s offer of “free” farms through the Homestead Act of 1862 seemed a godsend. The settlers found harsh growing conditions and many perils—including exploitation by railroads and banks, droughts, prairie fires, and bitter winters—yet they persisted. The settlers successfully “proved up” nearly a million claims between the 1860s and the 1920s. They filled up the immense grassland, transforming it into productive farms, the beginning of the region’s agriculture. They also created a distinct culture that continues to shape their estimated fifty million descendants living today. Every homesteader’s experience was different, as particular and distinct as the people were themselves. Yet their collective story, with all its hardships and toil, its ambitions and setbacks, its fresh starts and failures and successes, is central to the American experience.
Download or read book Great Plains Homesteaders written by Richard Edwards and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Great Plains Homesteaders Richard Edwards offers a concise and colorful overview of our country's successful experiment in populating the Plains with permanent settlers"--
Download or read book Joseph Elizabeth Schneider written by Komarek Staab and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Migrants written by Richard Edwards and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They exercised their rights under the Homestead Act to gain title to 650,000 acres, settling in all of the Great Plains states. Some created Black homesteader communities such as Nicodemus, Kansas, and DeWitty, Nebraska, while others, including George Washington Carver and Oscar Micheaux, homesteaded alone. All sought a place where they could rise by their own talents and toil, unencumbered by Black codes, repression, and violence. In the words of one Nicodemus descendant, they found "a place they could experience real freedom," though in a racist society that freedom could never be complete. Their quest foreshadowed the epic movement of Black people out of the South known as the Great Migration. In this first account of the full scope of Black homesteading in the Great Plains, Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld weave together two distinct strands: the narrative histories of the six most important Black homesteader communities and the several themes that characterize homesteaders' shared experiences. Using homestead records, diaries and letters, interviews with homesteaders' descendants, and other sources, Edwards and Friefeld illuminate the homesteaders' fierce determination to find freedom--and their greatest achievements and struggles for full equality.
Download or read book The First Migrants written by Richard Edwards and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Homesteading Project, University of Nebraska."--Title page.
Download or read book Crete written by Janet L. Jeffries and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late-19th-century publications regularly promoted Nebraska's young cities and towns, and Crete was no exception. Settled by homesteaders, merchants, railroaders, and New Englanders associated with Doane College, Crete began as an agricultural trade center, but it soon possessed the refinements of gentility and city culture. One 1890s booklet described the 20-year-old town, with a population of 3,000, as a modern, cosmopolitan, progressive city--traits that few places of similar size in the West could claim. A newspaper article exclaimed, "No city in the West has attracted more attention among Easterners than Crete" and that no other city had a more promising future. Another article called Crete "the gem of the Blue River valley." Situated 25 miles from Nebraska's capital city of Lincoln, Crete already had electricity, running water, a college, churches, a library, and numerous businesses and industries by the late 19th century. The photographs within provide a glimpse into the past life of a town that has continued to evolve and thrive.
Download or read book Saline County Nebraska Naturalizations written by and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of Washington County Homesteaders written by Veda H. Brandon and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nebraska A History written by Dorothy Weyer Creigh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1977-09-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frugal but generous, stubborn but innovative, trusting but cautious, Nebraskans are a people who chose to live in a harsh, semiarid land, from which they coaxed abundance. They may be, writes author Dorothy Weyer Creigh, the last of their kind. Nebraskans have been tied to the land, and their history, as much as that of any state, is a story of interdependence between people and place. As the "Great Highway" to somewhere else--California and Oregon--Nebraska was marked by the tracks and wagon ruts of restless pioneers searching for the promised land. Some found it here.
Download or read book The WPA Guide to 1930s Kansas written by Federal Writers' Project and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of a 1939 guide to Kansas compiled as part of the Federal Writers' Project during the Depression years, providing information not only about the attractions of the state, but serving as a cultural chronicle of an earlier time.
