| Some First Things in the History of Adams County | [11] |
| By George F. Work |
| Early Experiences in Adams County | [18] |
| By General Albert V. Cole |
| Frontier Towns | [22] |
| By Francis M. Broome |
| Historical Sketch of Box Butte County | [25] |
| By Ira E. Tash |
| A Broken Axle | [27] |
| By Samuel C. Bassett |
| A Pioneer Nebraska Teacher | [30] |
| By Mrs. Isabel Roscoe |
| Experiences of a Pioneer Woman | [32] |
| By Mrs. Elise G. Everett |
| Recollections of Weeping Water | [36] |
| By I. N. Hunter |
| Incidents at Plattsmouth | [41] |
| By Ella Pollock Minor |
| First Things in Clay County | [43] |
| By Mrs. Charles M. Brown |
| Reminiscences of Custer County | [46] |
| By Mrs. J. J. Douglas |
| An Experience | [50] |
| By Mrs. Harmon Bross |
| Legend of Crow Butte | [51] |
| By Dr. Anna Robinson Cross |
| Life on the Frontier | [54] |
| By James Ayres |
| Plum Creek (Lexington) | [57] |
| By William M. Bancroft, M. D. |
| Early Recollections | [62] |
| By C. Chabot |
| Recollections of the First Settler of Dawson County | [64] |
| By Mrs. Daniel Freeman |
| Early Days in Dawson County | [67] |
| By Lucy E. Hewitt |
| Pioneer Justice | [72] |
| By B. F. Krier |
| A Good Indian | [74] |
| By Mrs. Clifford Whitaker |
| From Missouri To Dawson County | [75] |
| By A. J. Porter |
| The Erickson Family | [76] |
| By Mrs. W. M. Stebbins |
| The Beginnings of Fremont | [78] |
| By Sadie Irene Moore |
| A Grasshopper Story | [82] |
| By Margaret F. Kelly |
| Early Days in Fremont | [84] |
| By Mrs. Theron Nye |
| Pioneer Women of Omaha | [90] |
| By Mrs. Charles H. Fisette |
| A Pioneer Family | [93] |
| By Edith Erma Purviance |
| The Badger Family | [97] |
| The First White Settler in Fillmore County | [102] |
| Pioneering in Fillmore County | [107] |
| By John R. McCashland |
| Fillmore County in the Seventies | [109] |
| By William Spade |
| Early Days in Nebraska | [111] |
| By J. A. Carpenter |
| Reminiscences of Gage County | [112] |
| By Albert L. Green |
| Ranching in Gage and Jefferson Counties | [123] |
| By Peter Jansen |
| Early Recollections of Gage County | [127] |
| By Mrs. E. Johnson |
| Biography of Ford Lewis | [129] |
| By Mrs. (D. S.) H. Virginia Lewis Dalbey |
| A Buffalo Hunt | [131] |
| By W. H. Avery |
| A Grasshopper Raid | [133] |
| By Edna M. Boyle Allen |
| Early Days in Pawnee County | [135] |
| By Daniel B. Cropsey |
| Early Events in Jefferson County | [137] |
| By George Cross |
| Early Days of Fairbury and Jefferson County | [139] |
| By George W. Hansen |
| The Earliest Romance of Jefferson County | [147] |
| By George W. Hansen |
| Experiences on the Frontier | [152] |
| By Frank Helvey |
| Looking Backward | [155] |
| By George E. Jenkins |
| The Easter Storm of 1873 | [158] |
| By Charles B. Letton |
| Beginnings of Fairbury | [161] |
| By Joseph B. McDowell |
| Early Experiences in Nebraska | [163] |
| By Elizabeth Porter Seymour |
| Personal Recollections | [166] |
| By Mrs. C. F. Steele |
| How the Sons of George Winslow Found Their Father's Grave | [168] |
| Statement by Mrs. C. F. Steele | [168] |
| Statement by George W. Hansen | [169] |
| Early Days in Jefferson County | [175] |
| By Mrs. M. H. Weeks |
| Location of the Capital at Lincoln | [176] |
| By John H. Ames |
| An Incident in the History of Lincoln | [182] |
| By Ortha C. Bell |
| Lincoln In the Early Seventies | [184] |
| By Ortha C. Bell |
| A Pioneer Baby Show | [186] |
| By Mrs. Frank I. Ringer |
| Marking the Site of the Lewis and Clark Council at Fort Calhoun | [187] |
| By Mrs. Laura B. Pound |
| Early History of Lincoln County | [190] |
| By Major Lester Walker |
| Grey Eagle, Pawnee Chief | [194] |
| By Millard S. Binney |
| Lovers' Leap (Poem) | [196] |
| By Mrs. A. P. Jarvis |
| Early Indian History | [198] |
| By Mrs. Sarah Clapp |
| The Blizzard of 1888 | [203] |
| By Minnie Freeman Penny |
| An Acrostic | [204] |
| By Mrs. Ellis |
| Early Days in Nance County | [206] |
| By Mrs. Ellen Saunders Walton |
| The Pawnee Chief's Farewell (Poem) | [208] |
| By Chauncey Livingston Wiltse |
| My Trip West in 1861 | [211] |
| By Sarah Schooley Randall |
| Stirring Events Along the Little Blue | [214] |
| By Clarendon E. Adams |
| My Last Buffalo Hunt | [219] |
| By J. Sterling Morton |
| How the Founder of Arbor Day Created the Most Famous Western Estate | [235] |
| By Paul Morton |
| Early Reminiscences of Nebraska City—Social Aspects | [240] |
| By Ellen Kinney Ware |
| Some Personal Incidents | [242] |
| By W. A. McAllister |
| A Buffalo Hunt | [244] |
| By Minnie Freeman Penny |
| Pioneer Life | [246] |
| By Mrs. James G. Reeder |
| Early Days in Polk County | [248] |
| By Calmar McCune |
| Personal Reminiscences | [252] |
| By Mrs. Thyrza Reavis Roy |
| Two Seward County Celebrations | [254] |
| By Mrs. S. C. Langworthy |
| Seward County Reminiscences | [255] |
| Compiled by Margaret Holmes Chapter D. A. R. |
| Pioneering | [263] |
| By Grant Lee Shumway |
| Early Days in Stanton County | [266] |
| By Andrew J. Bottorff and Sven Johanson |
| Fred E. Roper, Pioneer | [268] |
| By Ernest E. Correll |
| The Lure of the Prairies | [272] |
| By Lucy L. Correll |
| Suffrage in Nebraska | [275] |
| Statement by Mrs. Gertrude M. McDowell | [275] |
| Statement by Lucy L. Correll | [277] |
| An Indian Raid | [279] |
| By Ernest E. Correll |
| Reminiscences | [281] |
| By Mrs. E. A. Russell |
| Reminiscences of Fort Calhoun | [284] |
| By W. H. Allen |
| Reminiscences of Washington County | [286] |
| By Mrs. Emily Bottorff Allen |
| Reminiscences of Pioneer Life at Fort Calhoun | [288] |
| By Mrs. N. J. Frazier Brooks |
| Reminiscences of De Soto | [289] |
| By Oliver Bouvier |
| Reminiscences | [290] |
| By Thomas M. Carter |
| Fort Calhoun in the Late Fifties | [293] |
| By Mrs. E. H. Clark |
| Some Items From Washington County | [295] |
| By Mrs. May Allen Lazure |
| County-seat of Washington County | [298] |
| By Frank McNeely |
| The Story of the Town of Fontenelle | [299] |
| By Mrs. Eda Mead |
| Thomas Wilkinson and Family | [305] |
| Nikumi | [307] |
| By Mrs. Harriett S. MacMurphy |
| The Heroine of the Jules Slade Tragedy | [322] |
| By Mrs. Harriett S. MacMurphy |
| The Last Romantic Buffalo Hunt on the Plains Of Nebraska | [326] |
| By John Lee Webster |
| Outline History of the Nebraska Society, D. A. R. | [333] |
| By Mrs. Charles H. Aull |