On May 23, 1919, Dr. Frank A. Brewster of Beaver City and pilot Wade Stevens took off on a flight to Herndon, Kansas. There, Brewster performed emergency surgery to save the life of an injured man. This flight attracted worldwide attention and Dr. . . . — — Map (db m264269) HM
First Homestead in Neb. By Daniel Freeman. Jan. 1, 1866
Cambridge Incorporated 1885
First Counsel W. H. Faling W.E.B. Babcock James, John J.W.
Pickle W.P. Bennett
Dist. 21. Organized 1874
Minnie Finch First Teacher 7. Pupils.
George . . . — — Map (db m252903) HM
Faced with the great influx of white settlers after the Civil War, hostile Sioux and Cheyenne Indians retreated into the Republican River Valley. Here they found a nearly ideal location since the valley remained one of the great buffalo ranges of . . . — — Map (db m176855) HM
On May 30, 1935, torrential rains fell in eastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska; by early morning of the 31st, the usually peaceful Republican River was running bluff-to-bluff along its upper reaches. When the waters subsided two days later, . . . — — Map (db m48549) HM
