Freighting Across the Plains in 1856, a Personal Experience

The subject I have chosen for my address is simply an individual and incidental experience in connection with the planting of civilization in Nebraska, showing the relation of the early overland freighting business with ox wagons to Nebraskan civilization and its progressive development of today.18A...

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Published inHere You Have My Story p. 214
Main Author MOSES H. SYDENHAM
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published UNP - Nebraska Paperback 01.01.2010
Subjects
Agricultural sciences
Agriculture
Animal husbandry
Animal science
Applied sciences
Atmospheric sciences
Biological sciences
Biomes
Commercial transportation
Earth sciences
Ecology
Ecosystems
Engineering
Environmental studies
Erosional landforms
Fortresses
Forts
Freight
Freight transport
Geography
Geomorphology
Grasslands
Ground transportation
Ground vehicles
Horse drawn vehicles
Hydrology
Hydrometeorology
Ice
Landforms
Meteorological phenomena
Meteorology
Military bases
Military engineering
Military facilities
Military infrastructure
Physical sciences
Prairies
Precipitation
Snow
Storms
Transportation
Transportation modes
Valleys
Wagons
Water
Yokes
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Summary:The subject I have chosen for my address is simply an individual and incidental experience in connection with the planting of civilization in Nebraska, showing the relation of the early overland freighting business with ox wagons to Nebraskan civilization and its progressive development of today.18At one time I had much valuable data in my possession relative to the freighting business; but several boxes and barrels of valuable documents, having been burned up in a prairie fire, I cannot do justice to the subject in a general way, and can therefore do no more than give my own personal experience
ISBN:9780803226609
0803226608
DOI:10.2307/j.ctt1dgn56n.16