During the Civil War many regular troops were withdrawn from Plains military posts to fight in the east. The Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho, seizing this opportunity, attempted to drive white settlers from their lands.
Beginning on August 7, 1864, . . . — — Map (db m76706) HM
August 9, 1864, Robert Emery, stage driver, discovering Indians in ambush on the trail just ahead, 722 ft. due south of this point, wheeled his horses, and under hot fire, raced back to a wagon train three miles east, saving lives of his nine . . . — — Map (db m287805) HM
Sixteen-year-old Laura Roper, Mrs. Lucinda Eubanks, and children, Isabelle 3, and William 3 months, were captured by Indians at "The Narrows." Little Blue River, on Aug. 7, 1864. Laura and Isabelle were released to the Army at Hackberry Creek, . . . — — Map (db m287754) HM
Monument erected on the Oregon Trail by Nuckolls County, Neb. In memory of those who were killed and those who escaped at the Oak Grove Ranch in the Indian raid Aug. 7, 1884.
Killed
J.H. Butler • M.C. Kelley
Escaped
John . . . — — Map (db m287828) HM
The original townsite of Oak grew up around a gristmill constructed here in 1882. By 1883 the village had a druggist, physician, blacksmith, and milliner. Oak was platted in April 1884. In 1888 all businesses but the mill moved two miles west to . . . — — Map (db m287761) HM
From April through October 1870 Company C of the second U.S. Cavalry garrisoned a temporary military post, Camp Bingham, located northeast of here on the Little Blue River, to protect nearby settlements from Indians.
On May 15 Sergeant Patrick J. . . . — — Map (db m85665) WM
