From the Platte to Bellevue A Frontier Diary Weaves
A narrative recounts a frontier trek from the Platte River to Bellevue, detailing rough camps, encounters with Omaha and Sioux, trading posts, and early town sites while reflecting on land claims, railroad potential, and a regional press scene including the Nebraska Palladium. The piece blends travelogue with social and political notes from 1850s Nebraska Territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Bellevue
Ft. Kearney
Pappillion
Plaue
Fuller
Bruno
Treeato
Platte River
Pacific Railroad
Cedar Island
Otoe
Laad
Benton House
Nebraska Palladium
Reed
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bellevue Gusette
Bellevue City
N. T
Henry M. Burt & Co
Siness
Bowen & Strickland
Titorneys
Pethecin
Cook
New Pilding
Fifth and
Main Streets
L. L. Bowen
Forney
Ft Law
A. Strickland
Ttorney
Ae Ee AT Law
T. B. Lemon
Arnera
Fontenelle Bank
Nebraska “Territory
Holloway
of Law
W. H. Cook
Nebraska
W. TH. Longsdorf
Main
Twenty
Twenty- Sixth
W. Harvey
Ounty
Sarpy CO
Main Street
B. P. Rankin
LAW
le Putte
Peter AL Sarpy
Orwarding
Beilerne
D. J. Sullivan
Broadway
Council Blaffs
Iowa
B. Smith
Smith & Brother
Nebraska Territory
Macon
Macon. & Brother, Worneys AT Law & Land Agts
Omaha City
D. H. Solomon
Gleowee
Mille Co
Supreme Court of Iowa
Gustav Seeger
Bellevue House
Astommod Auton
J. T. Allan
J. H Brown
Plattsmouth
Cass Co
Nwn
Lyman Trumbull
James Knox
M. C
H. Browning
Quincy
James W. Grimes
Town
H. P. Bennett
del Ta C
N. T Green
Weare & Benton
Council Bluffs
L. Nucholls & Co
Glenwood
A. W. Buck
Old State House
U.S. Land Office
A. R. Gillmore
Omaha
Enos Lowe
John Finney
J. Sterling
Neda
Nebraska City
A. M. Clarke
J. T. Clarke
Clarke & Bro
Temboat and Collectin Agents
Greene, Weare & Benton
Ankers
Potowattamie County
Greene & Weare
Cedar Rapida
Greene, Weare & Rice
Fort Des Moinen
Geo
Snyder
John SH. Sherman
P. A. Sarpy
Humphrey
Putt ‘Ory
Mt. Louis
Joasph
Cheneworth & Cos
Cincinnati
Min
Couthauzh
Roartington
Law A. Hed
Banda
The
Bellevue Gazette
Cunningham
Burdell
Uncle Fuller
McKinney House
Kansas
Worthy
Santorum
Ohio
Louis Sonsesee
American Fur Co
Ne-ko-me
Girf
Rayne
Morpheus
Plavie
Gov
Burt
Mision House
Capitol
Belle
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