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NEBRASKA
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Nebraska Fun Facts &
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Buffalo Bill
(William Cody) started his famous Wild West Show near his ranch in
North Platte. The first rodeo was held in North Platte on July 4, 1882.
The area,
mistakenly called the "Great American Desert" by European Explorers, is
one of the top farming areas in the world.
It is illegal to go whale fishing in
Nebraska.
Hay bales
were used to build the only church in the U.S. made of this unusual
building material.
Many
Indian
tribes native to the area were forced out by the U.S. government. At the
same time, others were pushed into
Nebraska.
Borsheims in Omaha has the largest jewelry store in the nation.
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Buffalo Bill
Cody in 1903, courtesy Library of Congress.
This image available for
photographic prints and downloads
HERE!
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Elephant Hall, in a
museum in Lincoln, has the biggest collection of elephant skeletons in the
world. The biggest mammoth fossils ever discovered were found in Lincoln
County.
In Waterloo, barbers are forbidden from
eating onions between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Arbor
Day was started in
Nebraska City in
1872 by Sterling Morton to encourage tree planting.
The
westward journey of Meriweather Lewis and William Clark in 1804 took these
explorers up the Missouri River. The Missouri River makes up the eastern
border of Nebraska.
Kool-Aid was
invented by Edwin Perkins in 1927 in Hastings. He changed his soft drink
syrup, Fruit Smack, into a powder to make it easier to ship.
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The
Great Platte River Road Archway Monument, courtesy
Great
Platte River Road Archway Monument
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The Great Platte River Road Archway Monument
grabs travelers' attention near Kearney. Inside are exhibits about this
area as the gateway to the West.
The
High Plains Aquifer is a big underground layer of rocks and other
materials that are filled with water. Most of this aquifer is beneath
Nebraska,
giving it more underground water than any other state.
Many ranches
are giant-sized, covering more than 100,000 acres.
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The Niobrara is one of the top canoeing rivers
in the country. It has more than 90 waterfalls.
The
Great Plains is a large, mostly flat area of grassland prairie in the
center of the continent.
Nebraska is a
Great Plains State.
The
Unicameral is the name of the only state legislature with only one branch.
All other states have two branches, usually a senate and a house of
representatives. The Unicameral is also different in that when candidates
run for office, they do not run on a certain party's ticket.
Valentine,
a small town of about 3,000 people, gets many requests for cards
postmarked from the town on February 14th.
Second Wind
Ranch, near Comstock, has more water-pumping windmills (about 125)
gathered together than any other place on Earth.
Sioux,
Pawnee,
Cheyenne,
Missouri, Omaha and Ponca
Indians
were some of the first people to live in the area.
Twice-yearly
migrations of millions of cranes, ducks and geese turn the Platte River
area into an amazing sight.
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Marlon Brando was born in Omaha.
The Sand Hills
are the biggest grass-covered sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere. They
cover about one-fourth of the state. Only the Sahara and the Arabian
deserts have bigger areas of sand.
The Henry
Doorly Zoo in Omaha has the world's biggest indoor rain forest exhibit.
Johnny Carson grew up in Norfolk.
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Nebraska Sand Hills, photo courtesy
Nebraska Game and
Parks Commission
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The
state nickname used to be the "Tree Planter's State", but was changed in
1945 to the "Cornhusker State".
The Naval Ammunition
Depot located in Hastings was the largest U.S. ammunition plant providing
40% of WWII's ammunition.
The Union Pacific's
Bailey Yards, in North Platte, is the largest rail classification complex
in the world.
The University of
Nebraska-Lincoln weight room is
the largest in the country. It covers three-fourths of an acre
Chevyland USA near
Elm Creek,
Nebraska is the only museum dedicated to a
single line of cars.
Union Pacific
Railroad's museum is headquartered in
Nebraska.
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Great American Bars and Saloons
By
Kathy Weiser
Owner/Editor of Legends of America
Kathy Weiser's first venture into the publishing world takes you into the
many watering holes of America's past, particularly the numerous
saloons
that sprouted up during our nation's
Wild West
days. This great
photographic review displays hundreds of
vintage photographs from
California
to
Arizona, the mining camps of
Colorado, all the way to New
York and its turbulent days of
Prohibition.
Hardcover, 2006, 224 Pages.
Signed by the author!!
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