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Title Here you have my story : eyewitness accounts of the nineteenth-century Central Plains / edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 387 pages)
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Indian Country; 2. Military Campaigns and Army Life; 3. Overland Freighting on the Plains; 4. White Settlement; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Here You Have My Story vividly describes life on the early Plains in the words of those who came to settle in the rugged region. Originally published by the Nebraska State Historical Society between 1885 and 1919, these stories provide surprisingly accurate recollections of events and life on the Great Plains, with a focus on Nebraska. Many are filled with interactions with Native Americans, from Samuel Allis's experiences as a missionary to the Pawnees, to Henry Fontenelle's history of the Omaha Indians, to an account of the Powder River Expedition. Early freighters and cattle drovers share t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-375) and index
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Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- Sources
Land settlement -- Nebraska -- History -- Sources
Indians of North America -- Nebraska -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Frontier and pioneer life -- Great Plains -- Sources
Land settlement -- Great Plains -- History -- Sources
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- History -- Sources
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Frontier and pioneer life
Indians of North America
Land settlement
Amérindien (peuple) -- Grandes Plaines (plaines) -- Nebraska (Etats-Unis) -- 19e s. -- document.
pionnier -- Grandes Plaines (plaines) -- Nebraska (Etats-Unis) -- 19e s. -- document.
peuplement -- Grandes Plaines (plaines) -- Nebraska (Etats-Unis) -- 19e s. -- document.
SUBJECT Nebraska -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Great Plains -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Subject Great Plains
Nebraska
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Jensen, Richard E.
LC no. 2009028587
ISBN 9780803226876
080322687X
1282424483
9781282424487
9786612424489
6612424486