Proceedings and Collections, NSHS Vol 15

PROCEEDINGS AND COLLECTIONS

OF THE

NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL

SOCIETY

"Tree NSHS Seal Planters"

VOLUME FIFTEEN.

NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

(SERIES II--VOL. X.)

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

JACOB NORTH & CO., PRINTERS
1907

CONTENTS

	Page
Officers and Office Staff	3
Letter of Transmittal	5
Historical Addresses
Mormon Settlements in the Missouri Valley,
By Clyde B. Aitchison	7
Great Railroad Migration into Northern Nebraska,
By John R. Buchanan	25
Nebraska Politics and Nebraska Railroads,
By John H. Ager	34
Territorial Pioneer Days,
Speeches at the Annual Meeting, 1902	45
Campaigning Against Crazy Horse,
By David Y. Mears	68
Personal Recollections of Early Days in Decatur, Nebraska
By Capt. Silas T. Leaming	77
History of the Lincoln Salt Basin,
By John H. Antes	83
Early Days at the Salt Basin,
By John S. Gregory	102
Judicial Grafts,
By Judge William Gaslin	108
My Very First Visit to the Pawnee Village in 1855,
By Gen. John M. Thayer	119
Early Days on the Little Blue,
By J. H. Lemmon	127
Early Annals of Nebraska City,
By John W. Pearman	133
Dr. John McPherson,
By Robert W. Furnas	143
J. Sterling Morton,
By Robert W. Furnas	147
Henry A. Longsdorf, Pioneer of Sarpy County	153
Biography of, and Tribute to the Memory of the Late Charles
H. Gere,
By Robert W. Furnas	158
Robert Wilkinson Furnas
By Henry H. Wilson	161
Hibbard Houston Shedd,
By George C. Shedd	168
Railroad Taxation in Nebraska,
By Norris Brown	174
Work of the Union Pacific in Nebraska,
By E. L. Lomax	181
Early Dreams of Coal in Nebraska,
By Dr. George L. Miller	189
Unveiling of the Thayer Monument, Wyuka Cemetery	193

CONTENTS

	Page
Proceedings of the Nebraska State Historical Society
Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting, 1901	215
Treasurer's Report	219
Meeting of Board of Directors	220
Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting, 1902	222
Treasurer's Report	225
Meeting of Board of Directors	226
Twenty-sixth Annual, Meeting, 1903.	226
Meeting of Board of Directors	231
Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting, 1904	233
Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting, 1905	238
Proposition Made to State Agricultural Society	242
Meeting of Board of Directors, January	243
Meeting of Board of Directors, June	243
Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting, 1906	246
Treasurer's Report	249
Draft of Proposition to Lincoln City Council	250
Meeting of Board of Directors, May	251
Meeting of Board of Directors, October	255
Thirtieth Annual Meeting, 1907	257
Meeting of Board of Directors, (special) February	262
Treasurer's Report	265
Reports of Committees	266
Museum	266
Library	268
Marking Historic Sites	270
Meeting of Board of Directors, April	274
Meeting of Board of Directors, July	276
Meeting of Heard of Directors, October	277
Thirty-first Annual Meeting, 1908	281
Reports of Committees	282
Auditing	282
Work of the Society (Special)	283
Obituaries	284
Report of the Secretary	288
Treasurer's Report	310
Report of Librarian	320
Report of Archeologist, 1906	323
Report of Archeologist, 1907	335
Museum Catalogue	359
Newspapers Received By the Society	382
Legislative Acts Affecting the Society	293
Constitution and By-Laws	399
Publications of the Society	402
INDEX	405