1923: Willa Cather's Nebraska: Nebraska: The End Of The First Cycle / Willa Cather ; The Shifting Frontier: West Of 98°: The Great American Desert / James C. Olson -- The Frontier Machine / Walter Prescott Webb ; It Took All Kinds: Pioneer Preacher / George W. Barnes; The Myth Of Wild Bill Hickok / Carl Uhlarik ; Stage-coaching On The Great Overland / Mark Twain -- The View From Council Bluffs / George R. Leighton -- Promoter De Luxe / Martin Severin Peterson -- The Defense Of Grand Island / William Stolley -- See Nebraska On Safari / Burlington & Missouri Poster -- Buffalo Hunt / Col. W. F. Cody -- The Road To Acadia / Martha Ferguson Mckeown -- The Real Cowboy / Robert Sturgis -- Nebraska's Cowboy Capital / Norbert R. Mahnken -- They Went Thataway! / James H. Clark -- The Mitchell And Ketchum Tragedy / S. D. Butcher -- The Lynching Of Kid Wade / T. Josephine Haugen -- O'neill / Arthur F. Mullen -- The Doctor / Francis A. Long --^ The Doctor's Wife / Mrs. Francis A. Long -- Country Doctor, 1950 / Time -- Dutch Joe: Frontier Hero / A. E. Sheldon -- Willa Cather Of Red Cloud / Mildred R. Bennett -- Road Trader / B. F. Sylvester -- Politicians Of The Old School / Rudolph Umland -- Henry C, Richmond -- Moses P. Kinkaid -- Edgar Howard -- The Wife Of Old Jules / Mari Sandoz -- Omaha / Debs Myers -- Iron Horseplay / Lucius Beebe -- Omaha Between Trains / Rudyard Kipling -- The Fair / George R. Leighton -- The Kidnapping / Ruth Reynolds -- The Tornado / Amy Mitchell -- Country Boys / Howard Wolf -- Railroad Man / Ray Mackland -- Nebraska On The Make -- Robert Burlingame -- Education Of A Nebraskan / Alvin S. Johnson -- Lieutenant Pershing -- The Panic Of 1893 / Charles G. Dawes -- The Voice / Gerald W. Johnson -- A Good Many Votes On D Street / M.r Werner -- Mr. And Mrs. William Jennings Bryan / Willa Cather -- Mixed Notices / Col. Barney Oldfield -- Retrospective: 1957 / B. A Botkin --^ In Medias Res; 1933 / Hartley Burr Alexander -- The Supreme Court Of Tractors / Popular Science -- Nebraska's Mr. Touchdown / Bill Fay -- The Best Known Of All The Lincolns In The World / Lowry C. Wimberly -- The Prairie Capital / Raymond A. Mcconnell, Jr. -- The Seasons In Nebraska / Willa Cather -- The Blizzard Of 1888 / Ora A. Clement -- Cyclone Yarns / George L. Jackson -- Nebraska Rain Lore And Rain-making / Louise Pound -- Men Against The River / B. F. Sylvester -- The Mysterious Middle West / A. G. Macdonell -- County Seat / Robert Chesky -- The Stolen Courthouse -- Wilber -- War In The Corn / Time -- We Liked Chautauqua -- Katherine Buxbaum -- Holdrege / Robert Houston -- Elmwood / Bess Streeter Aldrich -- Scottsbluff / Robert Young -- Peace Officer / Robert Houston -- Hyannis / B. F. Sylvester -- Branding Time In Nebraska / Don Muhm -- Nebraska Cowboy Talk / Rudolph Umland -- Sandhill Sundays / Mari Sandoz --^ An Unquestionably American Composer / Burnet C. Tuthill -- Music Incubator / Time -- America's Gift Of Music / John Tasker Howard -- Alexander The Great / Tom Meany And Jack Sher -- One-man Studio / Time -- El Ministro Cowboy / John Neill -- Mari Sandoz / Mamie J. Meredith -- Nebraska Panorama / Sir Richard Burton -- Across Nebraska By Rail And Sail / Jules Verne -- The Plans Of Nebraska / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Oscar Wilde In Omaha / Carl Uhlarik -- Next Stop, North Platte! / Emily Post -- The Moscow Express / Jack Hart -- Nebraska Not The Guidebook / Rudolph Umland -- Very Perfect Gentle Knight / Claudius O. Johnson -- A Homespun Man / Frederic Babcock -- The Gentleman From Nebraska / Charles S. Ryckman -- The Norris Riddle / William Allen White -- The Kitchen Frontier / Margaret Cannell -- The Lady From Bar 99 / Time And Newsweek -- Columbus / William S. Dutton -- Nato's General Gruenther / Time -- Nebraska's Al Gruenther / Robert Coughlan --^ First Line Of Defense / Nebraska On The March -- Wheat Farmer / Robert Houston -- Nebraska Is Here To Stay / Bruce H. Nicoll Compiled And Edited By Virginia Faulkner ; Line Drawings By Elmer Jacobs. -- T.p. Bears Date Of Original Ed.: 1957. Includes Bibliographical References.

Faulkner, Virginia, 1913-1980; Jacobs, Elmer, 1900-

Bison Books

United States, United States of America

1st Bison Book edition, Lincoln, 1974

Bicentennial reissue ed, PS, 1974

September 1, 1974

Obscured text on back cover due to sticker.

xv, 491 pages : 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references
1923: Willa Cather's Nebraska: Nebraska: the end of the first cycle / Willa Cather ; The shifting frontier: West of 98°: The Great American Desert / James C. Olson ; The frontier machine / Walter Prescott Webb ; It took all kinds: Pioneer preacher / George W. Barnes; The myth of Wild Bill Hickok / Carl Uhlarik ; Stage-coaching on the great Overland / Mark Twain ; Hurrah for the iron horse: The view from Council Bluffs / George R. Leighton; Promoter de luxe [George Francis Train] / Martin Severin Peterson ; The defense of Grand Island / William Stolley ; See Nebraska on safari: Grand buffalo hunt / Burlington & Missouri poster -- The famous Grand Duke Alexis buffalo hunt / W.F. [William Frederick] Cody [Buffalo Bill] ; The road to Arcadia / Martha Ferguson McKeown ; The real cowboy / Robert Sturgis ; Ogallala: Nebraska's cowboy capital / Norbert R. Mahnken ; "They went thataway!" / James H. Clark ; Necktie parties: The Mitchell and Ketchum tragedy / S. [Solomon] D. Butcher; The lynching of Kid Wade / T. Josephine Haugen ; [John] O'Neill / Arthur F. Mullen ; Family album I: Prairie doctor: The doctor / Francis A. Long; The doctor's wife / Mrs. Francis A. Long; Country doctor,1950 / "Time" ; Dutch Joe [Joseph Grewe]: frontier hero / A.E. Sheldon ; Willa Cather of Red Cloud / Mildred R. Bennett ; Road trader / B.F. Sylvester ; Politicians of the old school / Rudolph Umland: Henry C. Richmond; Moses P. Kinkaid; Edgar Howard ; The wife of Old Jules / Mari Sandoz ; The gateway: Omaha / Debs Myers ; Iron horseplay / Lucius Beebe ; Omaha between trains / Rudyard Kipling ; Omaha newsreel: The fair / George R. Leighton; The kidnapping / Ruth Reynolds; The tornado / Amy Mitchell ; Country boys / Howard Wolff ; Railroad man / Ray Mackland -- 1932: Vanity Fair's Nebraska: Nebraska on the make / Robert Burlingame ; The sower: Education of a Nebraskan / Alvin S. Johnson: Homer; Lieutenant [John J.] Pershing; The panic of 1893 / Charles G. Dawes ; Bryan, Bryan, Bryan: The voice / Gerald W. Johnson; "A good many votes on D Street" / M.R Werner; Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan / Willa Cather ; Mixed notices / Barney Oldfield ; First lady of letters: Retrospective: 1957 / B.A. Botkin; In medias res: 1933 / Hartley Burr Alexander ; The "supreme court" of tractors / "Popular Science" ; Nebraska's "Mr. Touchdown" [Bobby Reynolds] / Bill Fay ; Lincoln: two views: "The best known of all the Lincolns in the world" / Lowry C. Wimberly; The prairie capital / Raymond A. McConnell, Jr. ; The weather report: The seasons in Nebraska / Willa Cather ; The blizzard of 1888 / Ora A. Clement ; Cyclone yarns / George L. Jackson ; Nebraska rain lore and rain-making / Louise Pound ; Men against the river / B.F. Sylvester ; Look east, look west: The mysterious Middle West / A.G. Macdonell ; County seat / Robert Chesky: The stolen courthouse; Wilber -- War in the corn / "Time" ; We liked Chautauqua / Katherine Buxbaum ; Holdrege / Robert Houston ; Elmwood / Bess Streeter Aldrich ; Scottsbluff / Robert Young ; Peace officer [W.W. (Bill) Schulz] / Robert Houston ; Hyannis / B.F. Sylvester ; Home on the range: Branding time in Nebraska / Don Muhm; Nebraska cowboy talk / Rudolph Umland ; Sandhill Sundays / Mari Sandoz ; Family album II: From Howard Hanson's scrapbook: "An unquestionably American composer" [Howard Hanson] / Burnet C. Tuthill; Music Incubator / "Time"; "America's gift of music" / John Tasker Howard ; Alexander the great [Grover Cleveland Alexander] / Tom Meany, Jack Sher ; One-man studio [Darryl F. Zanuck] / "Time" ; "El Ministro Cowboy" [Findley Howard] / John Neill ; Mari Sandoz / Mamie J. Meredith ; Just passing through: Nebraska panorama / Richard Burton ; Across Nebraska by rail and sail / Jules Verne ; The plains of Nebraska / Robert Louis Stevenson ; Oscar Wilde in Omaha / Carl Uhlarik ; Next stop, North Platte! / Emily Post ; The Moscow express / Jack Hart ; Nebraska not in the guidebook / Rudolph Umland -- 1947: John Gunther's Nebraska: Inside Nebraska / John Gunther ; The first hundred years are the hardest: A [George William] Norris portfolio: "Very perfect gentle knight" / Claudius O. Johnson; "A homespun man" / Frederic Babcock; The gentleman from Nebraska / Charles S. Ryckman; The Norris riddle / William Allen White ; The kitchen frontier / Margaret Cannell ; The lady from Bar 99 [Eva Bowring] / "Time", "Newsweek" ; Columbus / William S. Dutton ; Seventeen-gun salute: NATO's General [Alfred Maximilian] Gruenther / "Time"; Nebraska's Al Gruenther / Robert Coughlan ; First line of defense / "Nebraska on the March" ; Wheat farmer / Robert Houston -- 1957: The Nebraskan's Nebraska: Nebraska is here to stay / Bruce H. Nicoll
1923: Willa Cather's Nebraska: Nebraska: the end of the first cycle / Willa Cather ; The shifting frontier: West of 98℗ʻ: The Great American Desert / James C. Olson ; The frontier machine / Walter Prescott Webb ; It took all kinds: Pioneer preacher / George W. Barnes; The myth of Wild Bill Hickok / Carl Uhlarik ; Stage-coaching on the great Overland / Mark Twain ; Hurrah for the iron horse: The view from Council Bluffs / George R. Leighton; Promoter de luxe [George Francis Train] / Martin Severin Peterson ; The defense of Grand Island / William Stolley ; See Nebraska on safari: Grand buffalo hunt / Burlington & Missouri poster -- The famous Grand Duke Alexis buffalo hunt / W.F. [William Frederick] Cody [Buffalo Bill] ; The road to Arcadia / Martha Ferguson McKeown ; The real cowboy / Robert Sturgis ; Ogallala: Nebraska's cowboy capital / Norbert R. Mahnken ; "They went thataway!" / James H. Clark ; Necktie parties: The Mitchell and Ketchum tragedy / S. [Solomon] D. Butcher; The lynching of Kid Wade / T. Josephine Haugen ; [John] O'Neill / Arthur F. Mullen ; Family album I: Prairie doctor: The doctor / Francis A. Long; The doctor's wife / Mrs. Francis A. Long; Country doctor,1950 / "Time" ; Dutch Joe [Joseph Grewe]: frontier hero / A.E. Sheldon ; Willa Cather of Red Cloud / Mildred R. Bennett ; Road trader / B.F. Sylvester ; Politicians of the old school / Rudolph Umland: Henry C. Richmond; Moses P. Kinkaid; Edgar Howard ; The wife of Old Jules / Mari Sandoz ; The gateway: Omaha / Debs Myers ; Iron horseplay / Lucius Beebe ; Omaha between trains / Rudyard Kipling ; Omaha newsreel: The fair / George R. Leighton; The kidnapping / Ruth Reynolds; The tornado / Amy Mitchell ; Country boys / Howard Wolff ; Railroad man / Ray Mackland -- 1932: Vanity Fair's Nebraska: Nebraska on the make / Robert Burlingame ; The sower: Education of a Nebraskan / Alvin S. Johnson: Homer; Lieutenant [John J.] Pershing; The panic of 1893 / Charles G. Dawes ; Bryan, Bryan, Bryan: The voice / Gerald W. Johnson; "A good many votes on D Street" / M.R Werner; Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan / Willa Cather ; Mixed notices / Barney Oldfield ; First lady of letters: Retrospective: 1957 / B.A. Botkin; In medias res: 1933 / Hartley Burr Alexander ; The "supreme court" of tractors / "Popular Science" ; Nebraska's "Mr. Touchdown" [Bobby Reynolds] / Bill Fay ; Lincoln: two views: "The best known of all the Lincolns in the world" / Lowry C. Wimberly; The prairie capital / Raymond A. McConnell, Jr. ; The weather report: The seasons in Nebraska / Willa Cather ; The blizzard of 1888 / Ora A. Clement ; Cyclone yarns / George L. Jackson ; Nebraska rain lore and rain-making / Louise Pound ; Men against the river / B.F. Sylvester ; Look east, look west: The mysterious Middle West / A.G. Macdonell ; County seat / Robert Chesky: The stolen courthouse; Wilber -- War in the corn / "Time" ; We liked Chautauqua / Katherine Buxbaum ; Holdrege / Robert Houston ; Elmwood / Bess Streeter Aldrich ; Scottsbluff / Robert Young ; Peace officer [W.W. (Bill) Schulz] / Robert Houston ; Hyannis / B.F. Sylvester ; Home on the range: Branding time in Nebraska / Don Muhm; Nebraska cowboy talk / Rudolph Umland ; Sandhill Sundays / Mari Sandoz ; Family album II: From Howard Hanson's scrapbook: "An unquestionably American composer" [Howard Hanson] / Burnet C. Tuthill; Music Incubator / "Time"; "America's gift of music" / John Tasker Howard ; Alexander the great [Grover Cleveland Alexander] / Tom Meany, Jack Sher ; One-man studio [Darryl F. Zanuck] / "Time" ; "El Ministro Cowboy" [Findley Howard] / John Neill ; Mari Sandoz / Mamie J. Meredith ; Just passing through: Nebraska panorama / Richard Burton ; Across Nebraska by rail and sail / Jules Verne ; The plains of Nebraska / Robert Louis Stevenson ; Oscar Wilde in Omaha / Carl Uhlarik ; Next stop, North Platte! / Emily Post ; The Moscow express / Jack Hart ; Nebraska not in the guidebook / Rudolph Umland -- 1947: John Gunther's Nebraska: Inside Nebraska / John Gunther ; The first hundred years are the hardest: A [George William] Norris portfolio: "Very perfect gentle knight" / Claudius O. Johnson; "A homespun man" / Frederic Babcock; The gentleman from Nebraska / Charles S. Ryckman; The Norris riddle / William Allen White ; The kitchen frontier / Margaret Cannell ; The lady from Bar 99 [Eva Bowring] / "Time", "Newsweek" ; Columbus / William S. Dutton ; Seventeen-gun salute: NATO's General [Alfred Maximilian] Gruenther / "Time"; Nebraska's Al Gruenther / Robert Coughlan ; First line of defense / "Nebraska on the March" ; Wheat farmer / Robert Houston -- 1957: The Nebraskan's Nebraska: Nebraska is here to stay / Bruce H. Nicoll

From the word go, the Nebraska story is an adventure story. No matter at what point you chance to pick it upon the epic of the cattleman's Long Drive or the homesteader's struggle to tame the Wild Land; on the dust and dash of the Pony Express or the roar of jets streaking across the wide Nebraska skiesthe elements of melodrama are always there, action and suspense are forever present, the chips are constantly down. Culled from more than a thousand books and articles, the ninety-odd pieces comprising A Nebraska Reader were selected for their richness in human interest, historical significance, and entertainment value. Here is the Nebraska of native Nebraska writersWilla Cather, Mari Sandoz, Bess Streeter Aldrichand Nebraska as seen by a host of "visiting firemen," among them Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, A.G. Macdonell, Emily Post, Lucius Beebe, and John Gunther. Here are Nebraska and Nebraskans viewed sometimes dispassionately, sometimes with affectionate prejudice, by outsiders and insiders, contemporary participants and second-guessers. A book taking into account the paradoxical qualities which add up to the sum total of this many-faceted state has required the collective effort of many individuals. And while no single volume can pretend to tell the whole Nebraska story, Roundup will go far to convince its readers that there is indeed no place like Nebraska.

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