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65 relations: Adobe, American Indian Wars, Archaeology, Around the World in Eighty Days, Blacksmith, California, Cannon, Cheyenne, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Daniel Phineas Woodbury, Deadwood (TV series), Dobytown, Nebraska, First Transcontinental Railroad, Florence, Nebraska, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Phil Kearny, Grand Island, Nebraska, Great Platte River Road, Homestead Acts, Independence Day (United States), Independence, Missouri, Jules Verne, Kansas–Nebraska Act, Kearney, Nebraska, Landmarks of the Nebraska Territory, Little Blue River (Kansas/Nebraska), Mexican–American War, Missouri River, Mormon pioneers, Mormon Trail, Native Americans in the United States, Nebraska, Nebraska City, Nebraska, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Nebraska Territory, Newark, Nebraska, North Platte, Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, Oregon Trail, Platte River, Pony Express, Populus sect. Aigeiros, Salt Lake City, Samuel C. Mills, Sidney, Nebraska, Sioux, Sod, St. Joseph, Missouri, Stagecoach, Stephen W. Kearny, ..., Telegraphy, The Homesman, The Oregon Trail (video game), Thomas Childs, Union Pacific Railroad, United States Army, United States Department of the Interior, United States Department of War, Upper Oak Creek Descent Ruts of the Woodbury Cutoff, Ox Bow Trail of the California Road, Utah War, Washington, D.C., Westport, Kansas City, Missouri, Winter Quarters (North Omaha, Nebraska), 1st Regiment Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry, 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry. Expand index (15 more) »
Adobe
Adobe is a building material made from earth and other organic materials.
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American Indian Wars
The American Indian Wars (or Indian Wars) is the collective name for the various armed conflicts fought by European governments and colonists, and later the United States government and American settlers, against various American Indian tribes.
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Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873.
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Blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. whitesmith).
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Cannon
A cannon (plural: cannon or cannons) is a type of gun classified as artillery that launches a projectile using propellant.
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Cheyenne
The Cheyenne are one of the indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and their language is of the Algonquian language family.
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Council Bluffs, Iowa
Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States.
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Daniel Phineas Woodbury
Daniel Phineas Woodbury (December 16, 1812 – August 15, 1864) was an American soldier and an engineer during the American Civil War.
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Deadwood (TV series)
Deadwood is an American Western television series created, produced, and largely written by David Milch, that aired on the premium cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning 36 episodes and three seasons.
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Dobytown, Nebraska
Dobytown is a ghost town in Kearney County, Nebraska, United States, three miles west of Fort Kearny.
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First Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad (also called the Great Transcontinental Railroad, known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
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Florence, Nebraska
Florence is a neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska, United States on the city's north end and originally one of the oldest cities in Nebraska.
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Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, immediately north of the city of Leavenworth, in the northeast part of the state.
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Fort Phil Kearny
Fort Phil Kearny was an outpost of the United States Army that existed in the late 1860s in present-day northeastern Wyoming along the Bozeman Trail.
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Grand Island, Nebraska
Grand Island is a city in and the county seat of Hall County, Nebraska, United States.
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Great Platte River Road
The Great Platte River Road was a major overland travel corridor approximately following the course of the Platte River in present-day Nebraska and Wyoming that was shared by several popular emigrant trails during the 19th century, including the Trapper's Trail, the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, the California Trail, the Pony Express route, and the military road connecting Fort Leavenworth and Fort Laramie.
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Homestead Acts
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws under which an applicant, upon the satisfaction of certain conditions, could acquire ownership of land, typically called a "homestead.” In all, more than 270 million acres of public land, or nearly 10% of the total area of the U.S., was transferred to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River.
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Independence Day (United States)
Independence Day, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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Independence, Missouri
Independence is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Kansas–Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin Pierce.
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Kearney, Nebraska
Kearney is a city in and the county seat of Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States.
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Landmarks of the Nebraska Territory
Landmarks of the Nebraska Territory were important to settlers on the Oregon, California and Mormon trails.
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Little Blue River (Kansas/Nebraska)
The Little Blue River is a river in southern Nebraska and northern Kansas that was used by Pony Express horseback riders.
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Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848.
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Missouri River
The Missouri River is the longest river in North America.
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Mormon pioneers
The Mormon pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.
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Mormon Trail
The Mormon Trail is the 1,300-mile (2,092 km) route that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from 1846 to 1868.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
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Nebraska
Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.
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Nebraska City, Nebraska
Nebraska City is a city in, and the county seat of, Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.
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Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (NGPC) is a private agency of the government of the State of Nebraska in the United States.
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Nebraska Territory
The Territory of Nebraska was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until March 1, 1867, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Nebraska.
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Newark, Nebraska
Newark is an unincorporated community in Kearney County, Nebraska, in the United States.
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North Platte, Nebraska
North Platte is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States.
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Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.
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Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail is a historic East–West, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
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Platte River
The Platte River is a major river in the state of Nebraska and is about long.
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Pony Express
The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, and mail.
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Populus sect. Aigeiros
Populus section Aigeiros is a section of three species in the genus Populus, the poplars.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.
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Samuel C. Mills
During his lifetime, Samuel C. Mills was an American photographer, Civil War veteran, and a D.C. judge.
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Sidney, Nebraska
Sidney is a city in and the county seat of Cheyenne County, Nebraska, United States.
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Sioux
The Sioux also known as Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples in North America.
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Sod
Sod or turf is grass and the part of the soil beneath it held together by its roots or another piece of thin material.
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St. Joseph, Missouri
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Stagecoach
A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses.
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Stephen W. Kearny
Stephen Watts Kearny (surname also appears as Kearney in some historic sources; August 30, 1794October 31, 1848), was one of the foremost antebellum frontier officers of the United States Army.
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Telegraphy
Telegraphy (from Greek: τῆλε têle, "at a distance" and γράφειν gráphein, "to write") is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic (as opposed to verbal or audio) messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message.
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The Homesman
The Homesman is a 2014 historical period drama set in the 1850s Midwest, directed by Tommy Lee Jones.
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The Oregon Trail (video game)
The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974.
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Thomas Childs
Thomas Childs (16 March 1796 – 8 October 1853) was a U.S. soldier who served with distinction during the Mexican-American War.
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Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States.
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United States Department of War
The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.
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Upper Oak Creek Descent Ruts of the Woodbury Cutoff, Ox Bow Trail of the California Road
The Upper Oak Creek Descent Ruts of the Woodbury Cutoff, Ox Bow Trail of the California Road are remnants of the Ox Bow Trail located in southeastern Butler County, Nebraska, United States.
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Utah War
The Utah War (1857–1858), also known as the Utah Expedition, Utah Campaign, Buchanan's Blunder,Poll, Richard D., and Ralph W. Hansen.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Westport, Kansas City, Missouri
Westport is a historic neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
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Winter Quarters (North Omaha, Nebraska)
Winter Quarters was an encampment formed by approximately 2,500 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as they waited during the winter of 1846–47 for better conditions for their trek westward.
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1st Regiment Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry
The 1st Regiment Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
The 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was an cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the Indian Wars.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Kearny
