In the sandhill country, where the going was tougher, leaner, and lonelier, and the folklore tougher, fatter, and more plentiful, ...history may be retraced in the amusements of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Called on one occasion to a homestead cabin whose occupant had been found frozen to death, Coroner Harvey opened the door, glanced... in, and instantly pronounced his verdict, "Deader 'n hell!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mead had studied for the ministry, but had lost his faith and took great delight in blasphemy. Capt. Charles H. Frady, pioneer mis...sionary, held a meeting here and brought Mead back into the fold. He then became so devout that, one Sunday, when he happened upon a swimming party, he shot at the people in the river, and threatened to kill anyone he again caught desecrating the Sabbath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the cry of "follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land," Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stamp...ede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hast ever ben in Omaha Where rolls the dark Missouri down,... Where four strong horses scarce can draw An empty wagon through the town? Where sand is blown from every mound To fill your eyes and ears and throat; Where all the steamboats are aground, And all the houses are afloat?... If not, take heed to what I say, You'll find it just as I have found it; And if it lies upon your way For God's sake, reader, go around it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Well, well," he said to himself, "you are not in Belgium; let us begin our apprenticeship in earnest, and so long as we are in th...e woods, howl heartily with the wolves."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »