CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THOMAS WESTON TIPTON. Frontispiece.
	FACE PAGE
J. Sterling Morton, 1858	24
J. Sterling Morton, 1896	96
David Butler	104
R. W. Furnas	120
J. E. Boyd	176
Lorenzo Crounse	202
Silas A. Holcomb	208
Charles F. Manderson	336
William V. Allen	368
William Jennings Bryan	464

PREFACE.

   After a continuous residence of thirty-three years in Nemaha County, four of which were with the celebrated First Nebraska Regiment, and eight in the United States Senate, having suffered a sudden loss of health, I found a very pleasant pastime and most genial employment in recalling the early days of Nebraska pioneering.
   My first impulse was to utter opinions of men and measures. But remembering how liable we all are to make mistakes, and being fearful of doing injustice, by omission or prejudice, to some of my associates, I determined, as far as possible, to become only the recorder of their public works and compiler of their sentiments and oratorical gems.
   My theme, Forty Years of Nebraska at Home and in Congress, brought into review fifty officials, - eight territorial governors, six delegates in Congress, ten state governors, eight United States senators, and eighteen members of the house of representatives. The number required brevity. The one million new-comers and young generation were to be instructed, and the considerate and merciful criticism invoked of the remaining fifty-eight thousand old settlers.
   I acknowledge my indebtedness to ex-governor Furnas for the use of his invaluable library, to the Illustrated History of Nebraska, and to the Congressional Globe and Record.

   607 Florida Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. May 30, 1894.

Page 21, Note. For Joseph D. Morton read Julius Dewey Morton.

Page 55, Note. For III. read I.

Page 57, line 18. For Nebr., Territory read Nebraska Territory.

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