The first African American graduate of West Point, he served four years in the West as a cavalry officer but was court-martialed and dismissed from the service in 1882. He spent the rest of his long life attempting to clear his name. Flipper's record of accomplishment was significant for ...
This true crime story --- if the West could have true crime before it actually had much law --- is recounted in wonderful detail by Helena Huntington Smith in her 1966 book,The War on Powder River,still available from the University of Nebraska Press. Smith tells this story with an engag...
Army, Air Force storm the field after final whistle (1:12)Army converts on fourth-and-1 on the final play of the game and both teams converge on the field after a spirited contest. (1:12) An Air Force falcon injured at West Point during a prank before Saturday's annual rivalry game...
north of that point, only Indians and buffalo. At Lincoln they grazed the cattle and shipped them east on the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. Good friends Teddy Blue Abbott and Charlie Russell sat for their photo in Miles City, Montana, in 1919. Charlie and his wife, Nancy, were t...
1. Admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, by then-President Abraham Lincoln as the 35th state, West Virginia is the only state created by breaking away a Confederate state during the Civil War. It's also the only state to be admitted via presidential proclamation. 2. The state's miner...
Newspaper articles Encyclopedia articles Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women's Professional Basketball League, 1978-1981 Karra Porter. University of Nebraska Press, 2006 Read preview Epic Season: The 1948 American League Pennant Race David E. Kaiser. University of Massachusetts Press,...
Newspapers kept readers updated with the most recent developments in high-interest legal proceedings, often playing up dramatic elements. In 1887, William Jackson Marion was accused of slaying his friend, John Cameron. In the immediate aftermath of Marion's imprisonment in Nebraska, theGage Cou...
In the immediate aftermath of Marion's imprisonment in Nebraska, the Gage County Democrat described him as someone who had been "a bad man for some years." Despite Marion's claims of innocence, he was convicted in front of a large audience gathered in the Gage County Opera House. Th...
Less than three years after The Syllabi was introduced, a new series of the North Western debuted offering full coverage of current decisions in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, and the Dakota Territory. The flood of orders received by the company was welcome proof that a vast ...
72Instead of a state of mind and national triumph, the West in this conception turnsinto a space shaped by“invasion, conquest, colonization, exploitation, develop-ment, [and] expansion of the world market colliding identities”but also a multi-cultural“meeting ground, the point where Indian ...