CONTENTS

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