Nebraska State Historical Society

Undated photo, Fort Robinson. RG1517-44-3

“Thru These Portals Pass the Army’s Best Horsemen,” reads a sign above a barracks doorway at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. As the army’s largest qua...

Marker Text

Flint nodules embedded within subsurface Pennsylvanian Formation limestone deposits in this vicinity...

The South Omaha butchers conceived the idea that it would be fun to stay away and play a practical joke on their Council Bluffs brethren, . . . They sent a defiant challenge to the Missouri Valley boys [near the picnic site at Loveland] to be on hand with all of their best fighters for South Omaha was coming up there to clean out all western Iowa.

The Missou...

By David L. Bristow, Editor

Husker fans argue about whether the 1971 or 1995 championship team was the greatest in school history. But one year the Cornhuskers went undefeated, untied, and unscored upon in a ten-game season. When was it?

Hint: No, you weren’t even born yet.

It was 1902. And here’s what they looked like. In addition to lea...

By David L. Bristow

Imagine that you are in a bar in the early 1900s—a glass of cold beer in your hand, a spittoon within easy spitting distance on the hardwood floor, and a racy painting of some unclothed beauty hanging on the wall.

You turn at the sound of a woman’s voice singing hymns, and in walks a mature woman in a long black dress. Standing nearly six fee...