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Short Route to Black Hills

also opened a route to the Hills across the sand hills of central Nebraska. Kearney soon dropped out of the running, but Cheyenne kept up for years, though Sidney held its own. Dr. George L. Miller ran the Omaha Herald at the time and made mention of the advantages of Sidney : a spirited fighl followed in the columns of the Cheyenne papers though it could not be denied that Sidney was sixty miles nearer od than Cheyenne. The Sidney Telegraph quoted extensively from the paper's under

of city government and a permanently platted city engaged much attention, although gold was the item of paramount interest to everyone. It was not until May 1, 1877, that a plat of the town was filed.

In 1876 and 1877, there arrived and departed from Sidney about fifteen hundred people daily in the rush to the Black Hills for gold. People were going to and from the Black Hills, except for a few who stopped in Sidney