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- Oregon Trail [video]
- video Oregon Trail
- The Oregon Trail created one of the largest mass migrations in human history. This segment is from the program 'Platte River Road', produced in 1991 by NET, Nebraska's PBS Television Station.
- Nebraska Studies
- Major Long's expedition [video]
- video Major Long expedition.
- Stephen H. Long dubbed the Great Plains the 'Great American Desert.' This segment is from the program 'Platte River Road', produced in 1991 by NET, Nebraska's PBS Television Station.
- Nebraska Studies
- Fur Trade [video]
- video Fur Trade
- Fur traders and trappers followed the explorers to exploit the natural resources of the trans-Mississippi West. This segment is from the program 'Platte River Road', produced in 1991 by NET, Nebraska's PBS Television Station.
- Nebraska Studies
- Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery [video]
- video Lewis Clark Voyage of Discovery.
- Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery added immeasurably to European knowledge of the West. This segment is from the program 'Platte River Road', produced in 1991 by NET, Nebraska's PBS Television Station.
- Nebraska Studies
- The Canteen Spirit (Program Preview)
- The Canteen Spirit video television tv preview trailer documentary historical history World War II 2 WWII WW2 North Platte Nebraska NE train trains depot stop station rail railway troop troops soldier soldiers food provisions entertainment...
- 'The Canteen Spirit' chronicles the story of the World War II North Platte Canteen, which made history when residents of 125 communities from across the state greeted millions of soldiers, over a nearly five-year period, as their trains made a...
- NET Media Archives
- Ag College Dreams: The Real Cornhuskers (Full Program Replay)
- Ag College Dreams The Real Cornhuskers video television tv full program episode documentary historical historic history Geyer Cavett Nebraska State Society Historian Carter McCullough McKee Agronomy Horitculture Baenziger Logan-Peters Gangwish...
- A look at the history of the Ag College at UNL. The University of Nebraska was founded in 1869 and its Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources has become a national and international powerhouse in teaching, research, and extension education.
- NET Media Archives
- The War: Nebraska Stories - Mothers and Sons
- The War Nebraska Stories video World War II WWII Mothers sons North Platte Canteen women entertainment
- Located in the North Platte train depot, the North Platte Canteen provided food, magazines, and entertainment to over 3,000 soldiers every day of the war. Even though the war kept Mothers and Sons far apart, this video illustrates how the Canteen...
- NET Media Archives
- The War: Nebraska Stories - Start of the North Platte Canteen
- The War Nebraska Stories video World War II WWII North Platte Canteen women
- Only men were drafted during World War II. Although many women served in the military, if a U.S. female wanted to pitch in for the war effort, often she had to do it back home. This video shows how several North Platte women found a creative way to...
- NET Media Archives
- The War: Nebraska Stories - The Start of War
- The War Nebraska Stories video World War Two Start of War Doris Kugler North Platte
- In the video clip 'The Start of War' Doris Kugler of North Platte, Nebraska joins several others to explain what suddenly being thrown into a worldwide combat situation meant, both to those who left home for war and to those who stayed behind.
- NET Media Archives
- Next Exit: Mountain Man Meek
- Next Exit video Mountain Man Meek Jack Garrison Great Platte River Road Archway Monument
- Meet Jack Garrison: white, balding, middle-aged, college professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney -- AND better known to tourists of the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument as crazy Mountain Man Meek!
- NET Media Archives
- Crane Song (Program Preview)
- Crane Song video television tv preview trailer documentary sandhill migration nebraska bird habitat Platte river Michael Forsberg Mike Voorhies Tony Hempleman Paul Johnsgard Stoner
- 'Crane Song,' a vibrant new high-definition documentary by NET Television is a stunning visual essay of the Sandhill crane's migration through Nebraska, weaving together striking images and majestic sounds of the birds' journey with the stories and...
- NET Media Archives
- The Price of Water (Program Preview)
- The Price of Water video television tv preview trailer documentary Nebraska Ogallala Aquifer Platte River Sandhills Omaha Lincoln Agriculture conservation usage supply H2O Hall
- 'The Price of Water' explores how Nebraskans are connected to this resource that supports our lives, examines where our water comes from, who uses it and for what purposes, and what people are doing to sustain Nebraska's water for the future....
- NET Media Archives
- The Price of Water (Full Program Replay)
- The Price of Water video television tv full program episode documentary Nebraska Ogallala Aquifer Platte River Sandhills Omaha Lincoln Agriculture conservation usage supply H2O Hall
- The hour-long special begins with the exploration of Nebraska’s fresh water resources. Near Roscoe, Nebraska a portion of the geologic formation that makes up the Ogallala Aquifer lies exposed at the surface and we learn how the water below the...
- NET Media Archives
- Great Plains Great Books: 'The Platte: Channels in Time'
- Great Plains Great Books Platte Channels Time flora fauna river environment wildlife sandhill crane Paul A. Johnsgard
- Despite the brevity of this book, it offers a poetic view of the flora and fauna that stretch the length of Nebraska along the Platte River. Its beauty is revealed in its attention to the 'small environments' that often go unnoticed by the casual...
- NET Media Archives
- All About Books: January 15, 2009
- All About Books book literature reading review Stephen Young 19th Wife Ebershoff nineteenth Mormon Platte Channels Time Johnsgard
- Otis Young unveils 'The 19th Wife' by David Ebershoff, which recounts in parallel two stories connected to polygamy -- the first is of Brigham Young's expelled wife and the other a murder in a modern day Mormon compound. Charles Stephen revisits an...
- NET Media Archives
- Native writers gather at UNK to observe and write about the sandhill crane migration -- March 23, 2009
- Humanities Desk radio history literature art religion Nebraska life crane cranes sandhill sandhills Platte river writer writers birds indigenous native people population
- A group of writers, mostly from indigenous backgrounds, are witnessing the crane migration along the Platte. These writers find connection to their own culture in the movement of the cranes. Jerry Johnston reports.
- NET Media Archives
- In the Platte River Valley
- Sheldon Museum of Art Images
- Robert Stuart photo
- Stuart, Robert, 1785-1848; Overland Trails; Fur traders; Nebraska Western Trails Project NSHS
- Abstract Robert Stuart's fur-trading party, returning east from Ft. Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River, reached the Chimney Rock area on November 27, 1812. Bad weather and lack of game forced them to retrace their steps. They made winter...
- Western Trails
- Parker and Huyett's new illustrated miners handbook guide to Pike's Peak
- Overland Trails--Guidebooks; Pike's Peak (Colo.); Gold mines and mining; Nebraska Western Trails Project NSHS
- Abstract Guidebook: Parker and HuyettÆs New Illustrated Miners Handbook Guide to PikeÆs Peak, 1857. The PikeÆs Peak gold rush drew thousands. The route followed the South Platte River and did not pass Chimney Rock.
- Western Trails
- Pike's Peak
- Gold mines and mining; Pike's Peak (Colo.); Overland Trails--Description and travel; Wagon trains; Nebraska Western Trails Project NSHS
- Abstract The PikeÆs Peak gold rush drew thousands. The route followed the South Platte River and did not pass Chimney Rock.
- Western Trails