Buffalo Tales

BUFFALO TALES

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VOLUME 1 (1978)

The Oregon Trail: The Randall Journal

By: Alice Shaneyfelt Howell

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Agriculture: Buffalo County Pioneers

By Philip S. Holmegren

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The Mormon Trail: The Oliver Family of Shelton

By: Grace Oliver

The Plow That Broke the Plains

By: Michael W. Schuyler

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Rails in Buffalo County

By: Alice Shaneyfelt Howell

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The Kearney Canal 1875-1886 (Part II)

By: Gene E. Hamacker

The Kearney Canal 1875-1886 (Part I)

By: Gene E. Hamacker

Early Post Offices in Buffalo County

By: Alice Shaneyfelt Howell

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Kearney Minneapolis of the West

By: Marian Dettman Johnson

Ravenna: The Early Years

By: Pauline Irwin and Bethyne Hanna

Towns of Wood River Valley: Successes and Failures to 1890

By: Alice Shaneyfelt Howell

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VOLUME 2 (1979)

Stephen Watts Kearny

By: Phyllis Roberts

Early Days at Odessa Part I

By Myron Scott: Edited by: Alice Howell and Marian Johnson

The Girl Who Interviewed Nellie Bly

By: Margaret Ellen Nielsen

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Early Days at Odessa Part II

By: Myron Johnson: Edited by: Alice Howell and Marian Johnson

The Commonweal Comes to Kearney 1894

By: Gene E. Hamaker

One Hundred Years Ago: The Diary of Emily Sergeant Part II

By: Dr. Dean Sergeant

One Hundred Years Ago: The Diary of Emily Sergeant Part I

By: Dr. Dean Sergeant

The Settlement of Gibbon

By: LeRoy A. Walker

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The Watson Ranch Part I

By: Philip S. Holmgren

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The Watson Ranch Part II

By: Philip S. Holmgren

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VOLUME 3 (1980)

They Loved a Parade Part I

By: Margaret Ellen Nielsen

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The Poor are Always With Us Part I

By: Gene A. Hamaker

They Loved a Parade Part II

By: Margaret Ellen Nielsen

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The Poor are Always With Us Part II

By: Gene A. Hamaker

My Timber Claim for Your Horse

By: Marian Dettman Johnson

The Origins of the Mother Hull Home: 1889-1929

By: Ella Melton Peck

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Kudos and Sour Grapes

By: Philip S. Holmgren

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Nebraska Centre and Boyd Ranch

By: Alice Shaneyfelt Howell

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Samuel Clay Bassett: Farmer Historian

By: Margaret Ellen Nielsen

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Three from Buffalo County

By: Ruth M. Anderson

VOLUME 4 (1981)

Sodtown: The Community that Would Not Die

By: Irvin Irwiller and Alice Howell

The First Inhabitants Hostetler

By: Ella Doggett

Bits and Pieces: Locating Kearney Junction

By: Gene E. Hamaker

Moses H. Sydenham: First of the Visionaries

By: Margaret Ellen Nielsen

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Kearney's Prophet: Col W. W. Patterson

By: Alice Shaneyfelt Howell

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Early Fairs in Buffalo County

By: Barbara Pemberton Riege

Sartoria: A Lovely Ghost Town

By: Alice Shaneyfelt Howell

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Will J. Scoutt: A Man for All Seasons

By: Marian Dettman Johnson