Volume XIX contains, some of the most important historical material published by the Nebraska Society. The articles upon Indians and Indian wars upon European elements in our Nebraska population, the reminiscences of early Nebraskans, and not least among them, the descriptions of early Nebraska found in the testimony of the famous election contest of 1859, give views of social conditions and the status of early settlements not found elsewhere.
   In the footnotes will be found a remarkable collection of critical information acquired by extensive research and correspondence and which required very careful scrutiny and comparison.
   On April 25, 1917, the Society's board of directors authorized the publication of a historical magazine, and accordingly the first number of "Nebraska. History and Record of Pioneer Days" was issued in February, 1918. The contents of the magazine are designedly of a more popular nature than the papers contained in the books, and are largely notes of current historical incidents not appropriate for the more expensive and less frequently issued bound books. It is a means also of making known to the public the work and aims of the Historical Society from time to time. Publication of bound volumes of the Society will be continued for the more important historical papers.
   This volume contains many apt illustrations, which were afforded by the very extensive collection of photographs of that class now owned by or accessible to the Historical Society. This pictorial history will continue to be an important feature of the Society's historical publications.
   The painstaking research and careful proof reading of the editor of this volume and of others preceding it continues.

ADDISON E. SHELDON, Superintendent.