A. T. Crawford's Garage, Scottsbluff

Old Home Place of Jesse Pickering Near Mix at.-

Farm Ranch of J. A. Jones

Spillway Pathfinder Dam, Nebraska's Niagar.

Rev. J. B. Currens

Scotts Bluff Mountain

Sugar Factory, Scottsbluff

Lover's Leap

"Twix Sisters" Ruck

Smoke Stack Rock

Early Schoolhouse

Wheat Seeding

Marketing Potatoes

School

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Hampton's Golden Wedding 528

First House in Dawes County, Built in 1879 ......... 531

One Hill of Dawes County Suds 535

Dawes County Trout Stream 536

Superior Domino, 557924, Owned by Mrs. Wm. Braddock 538

Braddock and Deffenbargh, Breeders of Registered Cattle 539

Bordeau Ranch, Owned by P. B. Nelson, Chadron 540

Dawks County Court House, Chadron 548

Cram ford in 1886 550

An Early Day Home. Chadron . 554

Street View, Chadron 559

Second Street, Chadron . . . . . ... . . ■ . . 560

Jack Rabbit Roundup, Chadron 561

First Schoolhouse, Ten Miles South of Chadron 562

Public Library, Chadron 566

Federal Building, Chadron . 567

C. T. Coffee. Chadron, on Tract in 1871 570

Methodist Church 573

State Normal School, Chadron 574

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA AND ITS PEOPLE

NEBRASKA CAME FROM THE SEA

We will begin at the beginning, and add a chapter to the geology of the state, a geology heretofore treated by Barbour, and Condra, and Schramm, and to which research and exploration has added much of valuable information. We will tell of the far-off , misty past, when White river, and the Niobrara, Snake creek, Bluewater, the Lodgepole, and the twin merging valleys of the Platte, or Flatwater, and Gonneville, or Pumpkin creek were yet to be. When the surface of the earth was of hot rocks in the forming, and the sky above was hidden in the mists which enveloped our celestial baby world.