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Officers and Office Staff.

Letter of Transmittal.

Historical Addresses-

Mormon Settlements in the Missouri Valley,

By Clyde B. Aitchison....

Great Railroad Migration into Northern Nebraska,

By John R. Buchanan..

Nebraska Politics and Nebraska Railroads,

By John H. Ager..

Territorial Pioneer Days,

Speeches at the Annual Meeting, 1902..

Campaigning Against Crazy Horse,

By David Y. Mears...

Personal Recollections of Early Days in Decatur, Nebraska,

By Gen. John M. Thayer...

Early Days on the Little Blue,

My Very First Visit to the Pawnee Village in 1855,

By J. H. Lemmon..

Early Annals of Nebraska City,

By John W. Pearman.

Dr. John McPherson,

By Robert W. Furnas.

J. Sterling Morton,

By Robert W. Furnas.

Henry A. Longsdorf, Pioneer of Sarpy County.

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

H. Gere,

By Robert W. Furnas.

Robert Wilkinson Furnas,

By Henry H. Wilson.

Hibbard Houston Shedd,

By George C. Shedd..

Railroad Taxation in Nebraska,

By Norris Brown..

Work of the Union Pacific in Nebraska,

By E. L. Lomax...

Early Dreams of Coal in Nebraska,

By Dr. George L. Miller....

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.

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Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting, 1903.

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Meeting of Board of Directors, (special) February

Treasurer's Report

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

.Assistant Legislative Reference Department