Sidney to the Black Hills Route Claims Shortest, Cheapest Trail
The piece extols Sidney as the best starting point to reach the Black Hills, arguing the Union Pacific offers the most generous immigration support and fastest routes. It details fare schedules from Omaha to Sidney and onward to Custer City, Red Cloud, Deadwood, and other hubs, plus freight volumes, stage lines, and rapid expansion of Custer City with timber mills and municipal offices.
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Buster City
Deadwood
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Sherman Frouse
Canal
Madison Street
Kinzie Street
Wells Street
Kinzie
Ana
O. A. Kenyon
Mana Sger
Douglass Street
The Slags Hills Route Steers Over Black Hills Road
The route from Sidney climbs the Black Hills via Greenwood and Water Mole Ranch, with a stage station and horses changed at each stop. Points include Court House Rock, Pumpkin Creek, Platte River Bridge, Willow, White Clay Creek, Cloud Agency, and Cottonwood Creek, passing military posts, stores, and camps along a scenic, timbered corridor toward Sidney and the northern Black Hills.
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Kb F. Trollowell
Greenwood
Court House Rock
Taunk
Pumpkin Creek
Platte River
Teneth
Ateach End
Insand
Ye Hille
Sidney
Ee Ae “Co
J. W. Dear
Bed Cloud Agency
Generel
Seowe
Point of Rocks
Hank Clifford
Aenerel Mercys Avnre
Glay Creek
Seach
Black Hills
United States
Sidney and Black 1Ills Slace
D. Water
Red Cloud
Khole
Ares
Sidney Wagons-87 Outfitting List Highlights Supplies
A dense catalog lists camp gear and provisions including tents, camp stoves, coffee pots, kettles, cups, plates, pans, canteens, blankets, shovels, ammunition prices, rifles, bacon, sugar, goats, corn, beans, tomatoes, salmon, peas, oysters, and other camp essentials. Names and prices suggest wholesale pricing for outfitting parties in a mid 19th or early 20th century era.
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Sidney Wagons
Ncdei Dioes
Quirky, wide-ranging 19th century miscellany insight
A long, fragmentary digest of historical curiosities and peculiar facts from various cultures and eras. It recounts ancient rulers, religious practices, notable trials, disasters, and oddities such as poets, explorers, and trades, all presented in a dated, miscellaneous tone.
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Miles Custer
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Slags Hills
Anymall Canyon
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Cherter
Snake River Ranch
Sidney Stace
Red Cloud Agency
G. Andreen
Harney Street
van Dorn
Nebrase A
T.C. Bowers
J. W. Fowler
Notary Public
U. L. C. Beard & Co
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Nebrowke
Onath & Wordion
BR. R.tickaty
Paervham Street
Tenth Street
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Unard
State Steamship Lines
Sidney Telegraph
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British Museum
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the People’s Journal
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