In 1881 Nebraska was an open prairie. For 430 miles from east to west long undulating plains stretched out like the level wheat lands of Russia. Slow-flowing, muddy rivers ran through the plains; villages were few and far apart, travel difficult. Nebraska was a state before there were people there; in 1860 the land where Lincoln, the capital, now stands was open plain. The first settlers found a continuous, nearly flat plateau, covered with long red, shaggy grass. Buffaloes ran the plains, wallowed in hardened out water...
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