Terrytown / San Francisco / Oklahoma City / Gallup / Omaha / Hartford / Denver / North Platte / Promontory / Lexington / Fremont / Winchester / Washington / D.C. / Pittsburgh / Columbus / Cheyenne / New York City / Sacramento / Grand Island / New York / Fort Kearney / Quaker City / Moonstone / Winslow / /
Company
Twain / Grenville Dodge / Union Pacific / Lincoln Star Journal / Gering Joint Stock Company / Black Hills / /
Continent
America / Europe / /
Country
Trinidad / France / Canada / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
EntertainmentAwardEvent
1885 Oscar / /
Event
Bankruptcy / Person Travel / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
University of Illinois / University Hall / University of Central Oklahoma / University of Nebraska-Lincoln / University of Nebraska / University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries / University of Arkansas / Trail Days / Catherton cemetery / University of Florida Press / Tulane University / New Virginia cemetery / Homestead Act / Southwest Baptist University / James Madison University / Oregon Trail / Monticello / University of South Florida-St. Petersburg / Soder Saloon / Library of Congress / /
IndustryTerm
transportation improvement / bank / railroad builder / travel book / transportation / brother-in-law / finance / printing shop / travel structures / box car / local newspaper / travel experiences / /
Movie
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Great American Desert / O Pioneers! / /
NaturalFeature
North Platte River / Rocky Mountains / Wildcat Hills / Bay of Fundy / East Coast / North Platte Valley / Big Blue River / Mississippi River / Platte River Valley / Great Platte Valley / American Desert / Sandwich Islands / Cross Creek / Mediterranean Sea / Grand Manan / Sierra Nevada / /
Organization
Plains Humanities Alliance / Southwest Baptist University / Illinois Humanities Council / Chautauqua committee / University of Central Oklahoma / University of Nebraska-Lincoln / Republican Party / Tulane University in Louisiana / University of Illinois / Florida Center for the Book / Studs Terkel Humanities Service / UN Court / Colorado Endowment for the Humanities / Illinois Arts Council / Advocates United / U.S. military / Red Cloud High School / William Tecumseh Sherman’s Army / Oklahoma Humanities Council / Chautauqua Association / Nebraska State Historical Society / New Virginia Methodist Church / National Endowment / Roosevelt School / University of South Florida-St. Petersburg / the University of Nebraska at Lincoln / Congress / federal government / Big Tent Chautauqua Assembly / University of Arkansas at Monticello / James Madison University / University of Florida Press / National Endowment for the Arts / /
Person
Mitchell Pass / Hilda Kron / Alexandra Bergson / Samuel Langhorne Clemens / Robert LaFollette / Gertrude Stein / Charles Langdon / Warren Brown / George Washington / Andrew Jackson / Warren Brown Samuel Langhorne Clemens / Ebenezer Scrooge / Eric Foner / Patrick E. McGinnis Wi / Ulysses S. Grant / Willa Cather / George Cather / Elizabeth Cather / Olivia Langdon / Standing Bear / John Carbutt / Joe Starita / Heather Cox-Richardson / Roscoe Cather / Timothy Mahoney / Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Anna / Stephen Douglas / Thomas C. Durant / Margaret Cather / Carrie Nation / Helen Cather Southwick / Abraham Lincoln / Rawlings Stein / Mike Minzey / Harriet Betty Jean Steinshouer / Orion / Sarah Orne Jewett / Civil War / Charles Dudley Warner / Taney / Douglass / Rita / Sherman Hill / Betty Jean Steinshouer / William Jennings Bryan / Certainly Dodge / Leslie Bricusse / Silas Garber / Timothy R. Mahoney / Betty Jean Steinshouer Cather / William Tecumseh Sherman / Sadilek / Sam / Justin Morrill / Marjory Stoneman Douglas / Karen Vuranch / Patrick E. McGinnis / Betty Jean Steinshouer Willa Cather / Betty Jean Steinshouer Betty Jean Steinshouer / Virginia Cather / Taylor Keen / Lincoln Libraries / Roscoe / Willa Cather Speaks / Martin Gering / James Woodress / Laura Ingalls Wilder / Solomon D. Butcher / /
Position
maverick politician and entrepreneur / announcer / Humorist / compositor / literacy tutor / General / secretary / emeritus professor of history / author / professor of history / surgeon / consultant for the Trans-Siberian railway / attorney / civil engineer / critic / consultant / Ponca Chief / companion and best editor / Carpenter / regional historian / correspondent / lecturer / lawyer / President / biographer / clerk / corporate manager / and author / head / last speaker / historian / businessmen / banker / Chief Justice / chief engineer / selection official / speech and advertising writer and office manager / Paige compositor / Governor / coordinator / director / writer / commander / judge / secretary of the Nevada Territory / Standing Bear’s attorney / member / director and project coordinator / Chief / /
Product
Territory / Colorado / /
ProvinceOrState
Scotts Bluff County / Louisiana / New Mexico / Utah / California / Custer County / Arizona / Colorado / Illinois / Tennessee / Pennsylvania / Iowa / Massachusetts / Arkansas / Nebraska / West Virginia / Virginia / Connecticut / Missouri / Webster County / Gering / Mississippi / Cheyenne County / Kansas / Vermont / Wyoming / Florida / /
PublishedMedium
the Lincoln Star Journal / the Evening News / /
Region
East Coast / southeastern Wyoming / North Platte / Central Oklahoma / South Florida / West Virginia / /
“Free Land? 1862 and the Shaping of Modern America” Scottsbluff/Gering, Nebraska, June 25-29, 2014 Compiled by Mike Minzey and Barbara Netherland Of the contiguous communities of Gering, Scottsbluff and Terrytown, Ge