CONTENTS

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Officers and Office Staff.

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Letter of Transmittal.

5

Historical Addresses-

Mormon Settlements in the Missouri Valley,

By Clyde B. Aitchison...

7

Great Railroad Migration into Northern Nebraska,

By John R. Buchanan...

25

Nebraska Politics and Nebraska Railroads,

By John H. Ager.

34

Territorial Pioneer Days,

Speeches at the Annual Meeting, 1902.....

45

Campaigning Against Crazy Horse,

By David Y. Mears..

68

Personal Recollections of Early Days in Decatur, Nebraska,

By Capt. Silas T. Leaming.

77

History of the Lincoln Salt Basin,

By John H. Anes...

83

Early Days at the Salt Basin,

By John S. Gregory.....

102

Judicial Grafts,

By Judge William Gaslin....

108

My Very First Visit to the Pawnee Village in 1855,

By Gen. John M. Thayer.

119

Early Days on the Little Blue,

By J. H. Lemmon.

127

Early Annals of Nebraska City,

By John W. Pearman..

133

Dr. John McPherson,

By Robert W. Furnas.

143

J. Sterling Morton,

By Robert W. Furnas.

147

Henry A. Longsdorf, Pioneer of Sarpy County.

153

Biography of, and Tribute to the Memory of the Late Charles

H. Gere,

By Robert W. Furnas.

158

Robert Wilkinson Furnas,

By Henry H. Wilson.

161

Hibbard Houston Shedd,

By George C. Shedd...

168

Railroad Taxation in Nebraska,

By Norris Brown.

174

Work of the Union Pacific in Nebraska,

By E. L. Lomax..

181

Early Dreams of Coal in Nebraska,

By Dr. George L. Miller....

189

Unveiling of the Thayer Monument, Wyuka Cemetery.

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Proceedings of the Nebraska State Historical Society.-

Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting, 1901....

Treasurer's Report

Meeting of Board of Directors.

Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting, 1902.

Treasurer's Report

Meeting of Board of Directors.

Twenty-sixth Aunual Meeting, 1903.

Meeting of Board of Directors.

Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting, 1904.

Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting, 1905.

Proposition Made to State Agricultural Society.

Meeting of Board of Directors, January.

Meeting of Board of Directors, June.

Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting, 1906

Treasurer's Report

Draft of Proposition to Lincoln City Council.

Meeting of Board of Directors, May.

Meeting of Board of Directors, October.

Thirtieth Annual Meeting, 1907...

Meeting of Board of Directors, (specia!) February

Treasurer's Report

Reports of Committees

Museum

Library

Marking Historic Sites

Meeting of Board of Directors, April.

Meeting of Board of Directors, July.

Meeting of Board of Directors, October.

Thirty-first Annual Meeting, 1908..

Reports of Committees

Auditing

Work of the Society (Special)

Obituaries

Report of the Secretary

Treasurer's Report

Report of Librarian

Report of Archeologist, 1906.

Report of Archeologist, 1907.

Museum Catalogue

Newspapers Received by the Society.

Legislative Acts Affecting the Society.

Constitution and By-Laws.

Publications of the Society.

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Clarence S. Paine....

. Secretary Addison E. Sheldon.... Director of Field Work and Legislative Ref. Dept. Elmer E. Blackman.

. Archeologist Mrs. Minnie P. Knotts.

Librarian William E. Hannan..

Assistant Legislative Reference Department