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Title Here you have my story : eyewitness accounts of the nineteenth-century Central Plains / edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 387 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-375) and index.
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Indian Country; 2. Military Campaigns and Army Life; 3. Overland Freighting on the Plains; 4. White Settlement; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Here You Have My Story vividly describes life on the early Plains in the words of those who came to settle in the rugged region. Originally published by the Nebraska State Historical Society between 1885 and 1919, these stories provide surprisingly accurate recollections of events and life on the Great Plains, with a focus on Nebraska. Many are filled with interactions with Native Americans, from Samuel Allis's experiences as a missionary to the Pawnees, to Henry Fontenelle's history of the Omaha Indians, to an account of the Powder River Expedition. Early freighters and cattle drovers share t.
Note Print version record.
Subject Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Great Plains -- History -- Sources.
Subject Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- History -- Sources.
Genre/Form Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska -- Sources.
Nebraska -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Land settlement -- Great Plains -- History -- Sources.
Land settlement. (OCoLC)fst00991305
HISTORY -- State & Local.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Great Plains -- Sources.
Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
Great Plains. (OCoLC)fst01240567
Nebraska. (OCoLC)fst01208998
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Indians of North America -- Nebraska -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Land settlement -- Nebraska -- History -- Sources.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Nebraska -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Subject Great Plains -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Added Author Jensen, Richard E.
Other Form: Print version: Here you have my story. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009 9780803226609 (DLC) 2009028587 (OCoLC)317925578
ISBN 9780803226876 (electronic bk.)
080322687X (electronic bk.)
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