This map from the "Atlas of Nebraska'' shows the boundaries of Nebraska Territory in 1854 and 1861 when the territory stretched from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains. A map from “Atlas ...

Over 175 years ago, adventurers who wanted to travel west began making their way across the Oregon Trail. According to NebraskaStudies.org, approximately one whole month of their four-month trip was ...

Nebraska Territory. Share full article. Dec. 3, 1856. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 3, 1856, Page 5 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

In 1855, one year after the Nebraska Territory was formed, Nebraska City was the largest settlement in the territory, the "leader of the South Platte Section and chief rival of ...

In 1854, Congress had passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, organizing the Nebraska territory and opening lands west of the Missouri, previously reserved for the American Indians, to white settlement.

Illus., maps, notes., biblio., index. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 0803240902. Potter, senior historian with the Nebraska State Historical Society, gives us a comprehensive look at the history of the Nebraska ...

The wild and woolly first years of the Nebraska Territory will be the subject of Nebraska historian Jeff Barnes’s presentation of “The (Mad) Queen of the Prairies: Frenzied First Years ...

On this day in 1890, President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) issued a proclamation that extended the northern boundary of Nebraska into what had been the Dakota territory. The decree also said ...