Vol. V

July-September, 1922

No. 3

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CONTENTS

The Nebraska G. A. R.	33
Chalk Bluff or Happy Jack	34
Freighting--Buffalo Breeding--Pawnee Squaw	35
Skull Creek, Butler County (Pawnee village, burial ground)	36
Crist Anderson--Josiah Miner--G. F. Smith	37
Good Old Man--H. W. Brown--Jacob Adriance	38
Whitney Village, Dawes County	39-40
General John M. Thayer	41-46
Site of Plum Creek Massacre (SE of Lexington, NE*)	47-48
Death of Mrs. John Pilcher (Walthill, NE*)	49

*Word or Title not appearing in original Table of Contents

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PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE NEBRASKA STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
LINCOLN

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Made a State Institution February 27, 1883.

    An act of the Nebraska legislature, recommended by Govenor James W. Dawes in his inaugural and signed by him, made the State Historical Society a State institution in the following:

   Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

   Section 1. That the "Nebraska State Historical Society," an organization now in existence--Robt. W. Furnas, President; James M. Woolworth and Elmer S. Dundy, Vice-Presidents; Samuel Aughey, Secretary, and W. W. Wilson, Treasurer, their associates and successors-be, and the same is hereby recognized as a state institution.
   Section 2. That it shall be the duty of the President and Secretary of said institution to make annually reports to the governor, as required by other state institutions. Said report to embrace the transactions and expenditures of the organization, together with all historical addresses, which have beer, or may hereafter be read before the Society or furnished it as historical matter, data of the state or adjacent western regions of country.
   Section 3. That said reports, addresses, and papers shall be published at the expense of the state, and distributed as other similar official reports, a reasonable number, to be decided by the state and Society, to be furnished said Society for its use and distribution.

Property and Equipment

   The present State Historial Society owns in fee simple title as trustee of the State the half block of land opposite and east of the State House with the basement thereon. It occupies for offices and working quarters basement rooms in the University Library building at 11th and R streets. The basement building at 16th and H is crowded with the collections of the Historical Society which it can not exhibit, including some 15,000 volumes of Nebraska newspapers and a large part of its museum. Its rooms in the University Library building are likewise crowded with library and museum material. The annual inventory of its property returned to the State Auditor for the year 1920 is as follows:

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