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BOOKS ABOUT NEBRASKA

Nebraska 24/7
Nebraska
24/7


Nebraska: Off the Beaten Path
Nebraska: Off the Beaten Path


It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here: Tales of the Great Plains
It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here: Tales of the Great Plains


Nebraska: Stories
Nebraska: Stories


Roadside Geology of Nebraska
Roadside Geology
of Nebraska


C is for Cornhusker: A Nebraska Alphabet
C is for
Cornhusker:
A Nebraska Alphabet




Famous Nebraskans

Grace & Edith Abbott
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Grover Cleveland Alexander
Hartley Burr Alexander
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Francis La Flesche
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Susette La Flesche
Frank W. Leahy
Harold Lloyd
Malcolm X
Irish McCalla
Dorothy McGuire
J. Sterling Morton
John G. Neihardt
Nick Nolte
Roscoe Pound
Red Cloud
Mari Sandoz
Standing Bear
Inga Swenson
Robert Taylor
Charles Weidman
Paul Williams
Don Wilson
Julie Wilson
Darryl F. Zanuck

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Nebraska Posters, Art Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars
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Nebraska from Space poster
Nebraska from Space
Poster

(41º30'0"N 100º0'0"W)

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State Bird : Meadowlark
State Flower : Goldenrod
State Insect : Honey Bee
State Animal : Whte-Tailed Deer
State Tree : Cottonwood
State Grass : Little Bluestem
State Capital : Lincoln
State Motto : “Equality before Law.”
Nebraska Map by county.
US Census Bureau facts
Facts About Nebraska

Nebraska, known as the “Cornhusker State”, joined the Union on March 1, 1867 as the 37th state. The name Nebraska comes from a Native American word for “flat water”, referring to the Platte River.

Nebraska, in the West North Central Region, is bordered on the north by South Dakota, the east by Iowa and Missouri, by Kansas on the south, Colorado on the southwest, and the west by Wyoming. Nebraska is one of the six states - the Dakotas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas - called the Frontier Strip, which form a north-south line from Canada to Mexico and the Gulf, and roughly correspond to the Great Plains. Eastern Nebraska is part of the rich farm land along the western edge of the “Corn Belt”.



From prairie schooner days to the station wagon age, westering Americans have contiually put down tracks across Nebraska. Though some have stopped only long enough to fix a wagon wheel or change a tire, there is reason or the traveler to pause and explore this broad, sweeping land that Willa Cather celebrated in many of her novels.

Nebraska's population and industry are anchored in the east, where the Missouri River marks the state's border, cutting along farmland once part of what was called the “Great American Desert.” Corn here and cattle on grassland farther west now give the lie to that label bestowed by Maj. Stephen H. Long in a report on an 1820 exploration.

Grain and livestock also make Omaha one of the nation's major livestock marketing centers. Though trends toward decentralization lessen loads in its one-brimming stockyards, the city still lures as the state's largest. Nearby Bellevue, Nebraska's oldest settlement displays aircraft and missiles at the Strategic Aerospace Museum edging the Strategic Air Command's headquarters, Offutt Air Force Base.

At Lincoln the 400-foot tower of the State Capitol dominates the skyline; a notable statue of Abraham Lincoln stands close by. Visitors also can trace the life and career of William Jennings Bryan in the prairie Populist's home.

Trapper, trader, wagon train pioneer, overland stage, and pony express followed the Plate River west, and today Interstate 80 does the same. With a handfull of stops reached from this well-tended road–in summer guides offer information at rest area–the drive becomes a history lesson. Among noted places: Fort Kearny of Indian warfare days, the pony express station at Gothenburg, Buffalo Bill's Scout's Rest Ranch near North Platte.

At Ogallala you can pick up the history trail on U.S. 26, passing towering Chimney Rock and Scotts Bluff–landmarks that showed the way west to pioneers whose rumbling wagons left ruts still visible today.

State 2 and U.S. 20 take you northwest across less-traveled routes through the Sand Hills, 19,000 square miles of rolling, grass-covered dunes. Here small ranches put up at moderate rates a limited number of working guests who want to get close to the everyday business of a cattle spread. Here, too, hundreds of lakes form stop over spots for migrating waterfowl in spring and autumn. The state's northwestern corner beckons campers with evergreen ridges and weird rock formations.

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Nebraska Flag Art Print
Nebraska Flag
Art Print
State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, Art Print
State Capitol,
Lincoln, Nebraska,
Art Print
State of Nebraska, c. 1879, Giclee Print
State of Nebraska, c. 1879,
Giclee Print
Greetings from Nebraska Art Print
Greetings from Nebraska
Art Print

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University of Nebraska, Lincoln Art Print
University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Art Print
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, Art Print
Creighton University,
Omaha, Nebraska, Art Print


Meadowlark Art Print
Meadowlark
Art Print

Nebraska's state bird, the Western Meadowlark, is a medium sized passerine or songbird whose permanent habitat is grasslands and prairies, forage on the ground and low vegetation for insects, seeds and berries. The Western Meadowlark is also the state bird of Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, and Wyoming.

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Goldenrod Collage Art Print
Goldenrod Collage
Art Print

Goldenrod (Solidago serotina), the Nebraska State Flower, is a yellow flowering plant with slender stems that grows in ditches along roads and waste area throughout the United States.

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Twilight View of Missouri River and Cottonwood Tree, Photographic Print
Twilight View of Missouri River
and Cottonwood Tree,
Photographic Print

The Nebraska State Tree is the cottonwood, a large deciduous tree that is an excellant riparian (L: ripa = river bank) zone plant due to their exceptional tolerance to flooding and ability to prevent erosion damage. The wood, though course and strong (used for shipping crates and pallets) has the lowest BTU of any wood.


Honey Bee, Apis Mellifera, Photographic Print
Honey Bee, Apis Mellifera, Photographic Print

The honey bee, the State Insect of Nebraska, is important as a principal pollinator of crops and for producing pleasant-tasting and healthful honey. A social insect, the honey bee lives in highly organized colonies.

The Honey Bee is also the Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin State Insect


White-Tailed Deer, Art Print
White-Tailed Deer,
Art Print

White Tail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the Nebraska State Mammal, are herbivorous hoofed mammal found in farmlands, brushy areas and woods. White-tailed deer hunting is a popular recreational activity in Nebraska.


Bluestem Grass at Nine Mile Prairie, Photographic Print
Bluestem Grass at Nine Mile Prairie,
Photographic Print

Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) the state grass, is a vigorous native prairie grass. Nine Mile Prairie is a 230 acre tract of conserved (never plowed though some grazing) tallgrass prairie in Lancaster County, Nebraska. It is used as a research and study site for prairie ecology.


Nebraska Gold, Ears of Corn, Art Print
Nebraska Gold,
Ears of Corn,
Art Print
Sandhill Cranes Roost Along the Platte River in Nebraska, Photographic Print
Sandhill Cranes Roost
Along the Platte River
Photographic Print

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Scenic view of western Nebraska landscape along the Oregon Trail, Photographic Print
Scenic view of western Nebraska landscape along the Oregon Trail,
Photographic Print
Scotts Bluff National Monument, Photographic Print
Scotts Bluff
National Monument, Photographic Print

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