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Northern Nebraska Considered Geographically Topographically Geologically and Experimentally Showing the Chances for Investment in the Eastern Part and for Free Homes in the West the Country Traversed by the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad

ref. 7236Battle Creek Mich.: Review & Herald Steam Printing house 1883. 8vo 8.5" x 5.75" printed wrappers. 46 pp. Folding map 12.75" x 18.25" plus margins. CONDITION: Good dampstaining at covers and the top of the second half of the pamphlet. Light vertical crease at middle throughout. Map good one minor tear at margin. A promotional pamphlet for land along the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad including former Indian reservation lands with an appealing map of the rail line and its spurs. The text begins with a message to the public advertising the Elkhorn Valley Route on the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad the railroad having recently extended to Fort Niobrara Nebraska and thereby placing within reach of home-seekers millions of acres of free government lands. This is followed by an exhaustive overview of Northern Nebraska and its attractions geographical outlines physical geography topography and neighboring areas including Indian camps and more. A good portion of the text is devoted to Northern Nebraska's geology covering the Old Forest Bed Epoch the origins of "modern Nebraska" "How Came that Grand Old Forest" and so forth. Also included are testimonials from dozens of farmers who settled in Northern Nebraska including "exceptional cases" and highlighted is a large buffalo flat "8 miles long by 3 miles wide". The prospective settler is advised on how to reach these lands how to make a profitable investment in Nebraska lands and Omaha Reserve lands formerly home to the Omaha tribe and how to acquire them. A letter from the U.S. Land Office in Nebraska to the General Passenger Agent of the Sioux City & Pacific R.R. is printed here as well. Ads are included for the Land Agency of I. N. Taylor of Oakdale and Neligh Nebraska and real estate dealers Richards & Keene of Nebraska. The text concludes with a price list of commodities in Northern Nebraska. The map entitled "Sioux City & Pacific R.R. and connections to the Free Homes for the Million" by Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago spans from Council Bluffs Omaha in the east to the Black Hills in the west and from Pierre South Dakota in the north to a portion of Colorado in the south. The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad and its connections are shown in bold connecting with other railroad routes across the midwest. Battle Creek, Mich.: Review & Herald Steam Printing house, 1883 unknown books

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Sioux City and Pacific Railroad CompanyBiblio.com

Northern Nebraska Considered Geographically Topographically Geologically and Experimentally Showing the Chances for Investment in the Eastern Part and for Free Homes in the West the Country Traversed by the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad

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[WOMEN -- OGLALA SIOUX]. KELLY, Fanny [Wiggins].Biblio.com

Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians. . . with a brief account of General Sully’s Indian Expedition in 1864 bearing upon events occurring in my captivity.

1872ref. 63527Hartford CT: Mutual Publishing Co. 1872. 12mo. 285 1 pp. Steel-engraved frontisp. w/ tissue guard 11 woodcut engraved plates. Pictorial embossed brick-red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor chipping & fraying head & foot of spine slightly shaken couple proud signatures minor wear & bumping to corners tear to ffep. still G copy w/ former ownership gilt & red morocco armorial bookplate on front pastedown of Frank Cutter Deering 1866-1939 banker lumber baron and noted Western Americana bibliophile well-known for his extensive collection of Native American narratives and captivities. Second edition Howes considers Cincinnati imprint true first of what is considered one of the best known women’s Indian captivity memoirs in the 19th-Century. This recounts the experiences of 19-year old Fanny after being taken captive by Oglala Sioux warriors from a wagon train near Little Box Elder Creek west of present-day Douglas Wyoming. Although she successfully aided fellow captives Sarah Larimer and her 8-year old son Frank escape the other young girl Mary Hurley was later found scalped and shot with three arrows. The Oglala later traded Fanny Kelly off to the Hunkpapa Sioux who figured prominently in the 1864 attacks against Captain Fisk guiding gold miners in a wagon train to Montana Territory and during a siege featuring Gall and Sitting Bull the Hunkpapa used Fanny to send a note to Fisk. She would later be freed at Fort Sully after negotiations between Jumping Bear and Major Alfred House the commander of the Fort when she darted away from the Blackfeet Sioux through the gates. See: Howes K62; Bill Markley Fort Dilts and Fanny Kelly’s Bid For Freedom Historynet 2021; Elaine Katz Women & the American West Catalogue 30 No. 154. Mutual Publishing Co., hardcover

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