Entries Containing All of the Phrases «dawes county» AND «nebraska»

By Barry Swackhamer, September 5, 2015

Historic Northwestern Nebraska Marker

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1 ► Nebraska, Dawes County, Chadron — Historic Northwestern Nebraska —

The Pine Ridge Country of northwestern Nebraska is among the greatest historic places of the nineteenth-century American West. It was long the homeland and hunting grounds of the Lakota (Western Sioux). White fur traders began arriving during . . . — — Map (db m89354) HM

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2 ► Nebraska, Dawes County, Chadron — 465 — Fort Robinson - Camp Sheridan - Pine Ridge Indian Agency Road —

Following the 1874 establishment of military posts near the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies for the Oglala and Brule Sioux, the army laid out a forty-two-mile road to transport military and Indian supplies between the agencies and posts. Oglala . . . — — Map (db m89346) HM

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3 ► Nebraska, Dawes County, Chadron — 304 — The Fort Pierre-Fort Laramie Trail —

From about 1837 until 1850, more than a quarter million buffalo robes bought from Indians and 275 tons of fur company trade goods were hauled over the 300-mile-long Fort Pierre-Fort Laramie Trail that followed the White River through this area. . . . — — Map (db m4530) HM

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