What a wonderful look at life in 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Frontier County and its people. This short book at only 40 pages can be read in the course of an evening.

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original Book published in 1911.

Early History and Reminiscence of

 Frontier, County

 Nebraska

By

W.H. Miles & John Bratt

Agricultural Development of

Frontier County

By a Subscriber

Published By

Boyd Perkin

Maywood, Nebr.

1911

40 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect and duplicate pages may exist.

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Table of Contents

A HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SKETCH OF NEBRASKA

EARLY HISTORY AND REMINISCENCE OF FRONTIER COUNTY

FIRST CHRISTMAS

FIRST FARMING

FIRST HERD OF CATTLE

INDIAN OUTBREAK

BUILD COURT-HOUSE

FIRST WHITE WOMEN

FIRST SHEEP

FIRST WHITE CHILD

FIRST PREACHER

THE FIRST WEDDING

FIRST LAWYER

WOLF'S REST

FIRST DANCE

DOCTOR CARVER

WILD MAN

BUFFALO HUNT

LORD DUNRAVEN

ROPING BUFFALOS

HUNT NEAR MAYWOOD

THE LAST INDIAN RAID IN THE COUNTY

MURDER

ANECDOTES

THE FIRST EATING HOUSE

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF FRONTIER COUNTY

BUILDING RAILROAD

                       Surnames Found in this Book

Alexis, Allen, Ansley, Baker, Ballentine, Barret, Barry, Barton, Bender, Big Elk, Black, Bobtail Horse, Bogue, Bovey, Bratt, Brittingham, Carothers, Carter, Caver, Chamberlain, Charley, Chief Spotted Tail, Childs, Clifford, Cody, Colvin, Crane, Crooked Nose, Crosby, Dagering, Dauchey, Doing, Dunraven, Elbery, Erickson, Franklin, Fremont, Furgeson, Gammill, Gaslin, Gates, Gilland, James, Jay, Johnson, Jones, Kelly, Kerr, Kibben, King, Kingsley,  Kirby, La Salle, Lewis, Lockwood, Long Man, Longfellow, Love, Lowe, Lynch, McClary, McKnight, Miles, Miller, Murphy, Nelson, Nesbitt, Nolan, Noyes, Peltokangas, Perkin, Sanders, Seymore, Shelley, Shelly, Sheridan, Sherwood, Shirvington, Snell, Timmons, Waits, Ward, Warner, Warren, Watts, Webb, Wheatly, Whistler, Works