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Buffalo Tales Table Of Contents

Volume 1 (1978)
Title	Author	Issue
The Oregon Trail: The Randall Journal	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	1
The Mormon Trail: The Oliver Family of Shelton	Grace Oliver	2
Agriculture: Buffalo County Pioneers	Philip S. Holmgren	3
The Plow That Broke the Plains	Michael W. Schuyler	4
Railroads in Buffalo County	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	5
The Kearney Canal 1875-l886 Part I	Gene E. Hamaker	6
The Kearney Canal 1887 and after Part II	Gene E. Hamaker	7
Early Post Offices in Buffalo County	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	8
Kearney Minneapolis of the West	Marian Dettman Johnson	9
Towns of the Wood River Valley; Successes and Failures to 1890	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	10
Ravenna: The Early Years	Pauline Irwin and Bethyne Hanna	11
Volume 2 (1979)
Title	Author	Issue
Stephen Watts Kearny	Phyllis Roberts	1
The Girl Who Interviewed Nellie Bly	Margaret Ellen Nielsen	2
Early Days at Odessa Part I	Myron Scott: edited by	3
Early Days at Odessa Part II	Alice Howell and Marian Johnson	4
The Commonweal Comes to Kearney 1894	Gene E. Hamaker	5
One Hundred Years Ago: The Diary of Emily Sergeant Part I	Dr. Dean Sergeant edit.	6
One Hundred Years Ago: The Diary of Emily Sergeant Part II	Dr. Dean Sergeant: edit	7
The Settlement of Gibbon	LeRoy A. Walker	8
The Watson Ranch - Part I	Philip S. Holmgren	9
The Watson Ranch - Part II	Philip S. Holmgren	10
Volume 3 (1980)
Title	Author	Issue
They Loved a Parade Part I	Margaret Ellen Nielsen	1
They Loved a Parade Part II	Margaret Ellen Nielsen	7
The Poor are Always With Us Part I	Gene E. Hamaker	2
The Poor are Always With Us Part II	Gene E. Hamaker	3
My Timber Claim for Your Horse	Marian Dettman Johnson	4
Kudos and Sour Grapes	Philip S. Holmgren	5
The Origins of the Mother Hull Home: 1889-1929	Ella Melton Peck	6
Nebraska Centre and Boyd Ranch	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	8
Samuel Clay Bassett: Farmer Historian	Margaret Ellen Nielsen	9
Three from Buffalo County	Ruth M. Anderson	10
Volume 4 (1981)
Title	Author	Issue
Sodtown: the Community That Would Not Die	Irvin Urwiller & Alice Howell	1
Bits and Pieces: locating Kearney Junction	Gene E. Hamaker	2
The First Inhabitants Hostetler	Ella Doggett	3
Moses H. Sydenham: First of the Visionaries	Margaret Ellen Nielsen	4
Kearney's Prophet: Col. W. W. Patterson	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	5
Sartoria: a Lovely Ghost Town	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	6
Early Fairs in Buffalo County	Barbara Pemberton Riege	7
Will J. Scoutt: A Man for All Seasons	Marian Dettman Johnson	8
The Lone Sower: My Life Story Part I	Adolph Voss	9
The Lone Sower: My Life Story Part II	Adolph Voss	10
Volume 5 (1982)
Title	Author	Issue
Roots of Buffalo County - The English - Part I	Margaret Stines Nielsen	1
Roots of Buffalo County - The English - Part II	Margaret Stines Nielsen	2
The Dayton Emigration Association	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	3
Bertha Haug Hayman: School Teacher	Maxine Schroeder	4
Recollections of Buckeye Valley School	Ruth Gitchel Anderson	5
By-Gone School Days	May Clayton Stover	6
Some People and Events in the Early History of Amherst	Margaret Stines Nielsen	7
Sacramento to Kearney by Car: 1917	Weslie Wort Wilder	8
A. T. Anderson: Photographer	Marian Dettman Johnson	9
Kearney: Episodes from 1877	Gene E. Hamaker	10
Volume 6 (1983)
Title	Author	Issue
Lottie Gove Norton: Grande Dame of Fort Kearney Chapter: DAR	Pamelia Nelson Long	1
Early Days in Elm Creek	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	2
Elm Creek in 1942	Stephen King	3
Roots in Buffalo County: The Irish Part I	Margaret Stines Nielsen	4
Roots in Buffalo County: The Irish Part II	Margaret Stines Nielsen	5
The Lincoln Highway	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	6
B. O. Hostetler: District Judge	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	7
Kearney Junction 1872: Business And Businessmen - Part I	Gene E. Hamaker	8
Kearney Junction 1872: Business And Businessmen - Part II	Gene E. Hamaker	9
Kearney Volunteer Fire Depart: The First 100 Years	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	10
Volume 7 (1984)
Title	Author	Issue
Roots of Buffalo County -The Scandinavians-Part I	Margaret Stines Nielsen	1
Roots of Buffalo County -The Scandinavians-Part II	Margaret Stines Nielsen	2
Roots of Buffalo County -The Scandinavians-Part III (The Danes)	Margaret Stines Nielsen	3
Influenza 1918	Gene E. Hamaker	4
Kearney High School: Glimpses from the Early Years 1881-1901	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	5
Weddings Through the Years	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	6
The Community of Stanley	Irene Mollard	7
Letters of Sally Coffman to Her Daughter Marilla: 1877 1879 1880	Edited by Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	8
Augustus Orloff Thomas: Pioneer Educator	Philip S. Holmgren	9
Gene Edward Hamaker; Historian; Feb. 28, 1928 - Oct. 19, 1984	Philip S. Holmgren	10
Volume 8 (1985)
Title	Author	Issue
The Mitchell-Ketchum Tragedy	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	1
Freighting in Buffalo County-Part I; A Flash in the Pan - Freighting from Kearney to the Black Hills in 1877	Mardi Anderson	2
Freighting in Buffalo County-Part II; Kearney; The Trade Center for Buffalo County Freighting in the 1880's	Mardi Anderson	3
Freighting in Buffalo County-Part III; Other Wagon Routes	Mardi Anderson	4
The Czechs in and Around Ravenna - Part I	Edith Fiala Abraham	5
The Czechs in and Around Ravenna - Part II	Edith Fiala Abraham	6
Buckeye Valley and the Hamlet Of Butler	Laura Vohland Brady	7
The Arts in Early Kearney Part I	Margaret Stines Nielsen	8
The Arts in Early Kearney Part II	Margaret Stines Nielsen	9
Letters To Nellie Part I	Introduction	10
Volume 9 (1986)
Title	Author	Issue
Letters To Nellie Part II	Edited by Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	1
The First Greeks in Kearney - Part I	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	2
The First Greeks in Kearney - Part II	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	3
The Lebanese in Kearney - Part I	Minnette Yanney Steinbrink	4
The Lebanese in Kearney - Part II Yanney - Abraham	Minnette Yanney Steinbrink	5
Kearney Woman's Club	Dorothy S. Wilson	6
The Opera House - Part I	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	7
The Opera House - Part II	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	8
My Dear Jay - Part I; Brink Family Correspondence 1884-1904	Margaret Stines Nielsen	9
My Dear Jay - Part II	Margaret Stines Nielsen	10
Volume 10 (1987)
Title	Author	Issue
Kearney 100 Years ago: 1886 In Review	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	1
The Farming Community of Buffalo County 1886	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	2
The Higgins Homestead (The Jochem Farm)	Dan Reese	3
When Watertown was a Town	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	4
George Meisner of Shelton	Angela Frazier	5
The Passion Play	Dorothy S. Wilson	6
Chautauqua	Edna Luce	7
The Hotels of Kearney - Part I	Margaret Stines Nielsen	8
The Hotels of Kearney - Part II	Margaret Stines Nielsen	9
Christmas Traditions	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	10
Volume 11 (1988)
Title	Author	Issue
The Ice Industry	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	1
The Aviation Meet: Kearney's First Air Show	Mardi Anderson	2
Barnstormers: A Flying Parson and Other Aviators Aviation: 1911-1942	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	3
The Kearney Air Base: The Military	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	4
The Kearney Air Base: The Civilians	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	5
Fort Kearney-Guardian of the Plains	Beverly Murray Kimball	6
Harmon Park	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	7
The Newspapers of Kearney - Part I	Margaret Stines Nielsen	8
The Newspapers of Kearney - Part II	Margaret Stines Nielsen	9
50 Years of KVFD Emergency Medical Service	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	10
Volume 12 (1989)
Title	Author	Issue
A View of Kearney in 1888	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	1
John A. Stryker: Photographer	Mardi Anderson	2
Charles E. Hanson	Kieth Buss	3
Washington Day 1889	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	4
Alice Hendrickson: Farm Wife	Ethel Mae Hendrickson Fritz	5
Roots of Buffalo County; The Germans and Austrians-Part I	Margaret Stines Nielsen	6
Roots of Buffalo County; The Germans and Austrians-Part II	Margaret Stines Nielsen	7
Roots of Buffalo County; The Germans and Austrians-Part III	Margaret Stines Nielsen	8
The Kaufmann & Wernert Store	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	9
Going Home to Kaufmann's	Susan Sizer Bogue	10
Volume 13 (1990)
Title	Author	Issue
Kearney Boomers in 1889	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	1
William W. Pool: Pool Siding and Poole; a Brief History	Keith Buss	2
The Kearney Pubic Library: 1890-1990	Margaret Stines Nielsen	3
Rural Electrification: 1929-1953	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	4
Pleasanton	June I. Hand	5
Pleasanton School District 105	Barbara Reidy O'Neill	6
Quilts and Quilting	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	7
Kearney & Black Hills Railway: A Backward Glance	Philip S. Holmgren	8
Armada: The Gem City 1873-1890	James Bish	9
The Beshore Family: Electronics Pioneers	Margaret Stines Nielsen	10
Volume 14 (1991)
Title	Author	Issue
1890 in Kearney	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	1
D. Wort Grain Dealer: Former Mayor	Emma Jane Wilder	2
John Reddy: Pioneer Railroader and Farmer	Rhonda O'Brien and Margaret Tunks	3
The Town That Was Nantasket	Rochelle A. Hunt	4
The Founding Mothers of Kearney	Margaret Stines Nielsen	5
Post South Loup Fork	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	6
Flour Mills in Buffalo County: Part I The Gibbon Mill 1873-1941	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	7
Flour Mills in Buffalo County: Part II	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	8
Volume 15 (1992)
Title	Author	Issue
Episodes in the Lives of Early Buffalo County Women	Compiled by Emma Jane Wilder	1
D. P. Ashburn	Leroy A. Walker	2
The Black Family	Margaret Stines Nielsen	3
Industrial Boom Reaches Its Zenith	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	4
The Kearney and Gothenburg Boom Periods	Keith Buss	5
Automobile Trip from Kearney to Estes Park, Colorado: Aug. 5-7, 1914	Edited by Philip S. Holmgren	6
Volume 16 (1993)
Title	Author	Issue
The Kearney Military Academy: Serving the Community 1892-1993	Margaret Stines Nielsen	1
Horse Power Threshing	Jay W. Gitchel	2
Remembering Kearney and the Robinson - Miller Meat Market	Leslie Robinson and Ruth Miller Farm	3
The New York to Paris Automobile Race: 1908	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	4
Brick making in Kearney	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	5
More on Brickyards	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	6
Volume 17 (1994)
Title	Author	Issue
West Nebraska Holiness Camp Meetings	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	1
The Many Advocations Of Clarence A. Murch	Margaret Stines Nielsen	2
Reminiscences of Ralph M. Grimes	Edited by Philip S. Holmgren	3
Kearney's "Boys of Summer" - The 1946 Irishmen Part I	Gary Stickney	4
Kearney's "Boys of Summer" - The 1946 Irishmen Part II	Gary Stickney	5
The Kearney Bank Robbery	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	6
Volume 18 (1995)
Title	Author	Issue
Letters From Behind The Wall	Margaret Stines Nielsen	1
Furniture That Talks:" A history of KGFW and early radio in Buffalo County	Tom Frasier	2
Migrating To Nebraska	Henry Hilton Wood	3
Experiences As A Farmer In Nebraska	Henry Hilton Wood	4
Camp John R. Brooke	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	5
Camp Henry A. Morrow: The G.A.R. Reunion of 1888	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	6
Volume 19 (1996)
Title	Author	Issue
Bishop George Allan Beecher and His Mentors Part I	Margaret Stines Nielsen	1
Bishop George Allan Beecher and His Mentors Part II	Margaret Stines Nielsen	2
Historical Background of Churches in Buffalo County Part I	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	3
Historical Background of Churches in Buffalo County Part II	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	4
George Zebedee Richards "A Pioneer on the Move"	Philip S. Holmgren	5
Kearney Public School Classrooms Then and Now	Philip S. Holmgren and Alice Howell	6
Volume 20 (1997)
Title	Author	Issue
Major John Talbot	Mardi Anderson	1
	Valerie Vierk, Mary Lee Pesek and Geoffrey Pesek	2
The Korean Connection	Margaret Stines Nielsen	3
	Valerie Vierk	4
	Valerie Vierk	5
Bico's Cafes	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	6
Volume 21 (1998)
Title	Author	Issue
Looking Back on Kearney's Anniversaries Part I	Margaret Stines Nielsen	1
Looking Back on Kearney's Anniversaries Part II	Margaret Stines Nielsen	2
The Wedding	Sue Hankins	3
Reunion of class of 1937	Emma Jane Wilder	4
Kearney 100 Years Ago Part I	Mardi Anderson	5
Kearney 100 Years Ago Part II 1898 The same but Different	Mardi Anderson	6
Volume 22 (1999)
Title	Author	Issue
Memories of Kearney as a Youth	Charles F. Brown	1
The Empress and the Fort Theaters 1914 - 1988 Kearney NE	Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	2
	Valerie Vierk	3
	Valerie Vierk	4
Dedicated To Professor Philip S. Holmgren	Professor Otto Lohrenz	5
The Pioneer Neighborhood	Margaret Stines Nielsen	6
Volume 23 (2000)
Title	Author	Issue
Fort Kearny - The Rest of the story, Part I	Sally Vifquain	1
Fort Kearny - The Rest of the story, Part II	Sally Vifquain	2
Fort Kearny - The Rest of the story, Part II	Sally Vifquain	3
	Valerie Vierk	4
	Valerie Vierk	5
	Valerie Vierk	6
Historical Vignette: Bert Wood	Tara Heil	6a
Volume 24 (2001)
Title	Author	Issue
The Ludden Family	Margaret Stines Nielsen	1
Historical Vignette: Charles W. Suchy	Holly Bell	1a
Introducing Sherrie Dux-Ideus	Roger Davis	2
Historical Vignette: The Tea Pot	Leroy Walker	2a
Historical Vignette: Emma Barney	Christy Hagler	2b
The Love Letters of Bertha Alice Haug and Ora Oscar Hayman, Part I	Bertha Alice Haug and Ora Oscar Hayman	3
Historical Vignette: George T. Harr	Lana M. Greene	3a
The Love Letters of Bertha Alice Haug and Ora Oscar Hayman, Part II	Bertha Alice Haug and Ora Oscar Hayman	4
Historical Vignette: John Saup Jr.	Jennifer Erickson	4a
	Valerie Vierk	5
	Valerie Vierk	6
Volume 25 (2002)
Title	Author	Issue
The Love Letters of Bertha Alice Haug and Ora Oscan Hayman: Part III	Bertha Alice Haug and Ora Oscar Hayman	1
A Nebraska in the Navy in W.W.II	Carl Spelts	2
Gilbert C. Fosdick II: Stagecoach Driver	Mardi Anderson	3
The Love Letters of Bertha Alice Haug and Ora Oscan Hayman: Part IV	Bertha Alice Haug and Ora Oscar Hayman	4
The Love Letters of Bertha Alice Haug and Ora Oscan Hayman: Part V	Bertha Alice Haug and Ora Oscar Hayman	5
"A Day That Will Live In Infamy" Buffalo County and the Attack on Pearl Harbor	Adam Fjell	6
Volume 26 (2003)
Title	Author	Issue
"From Corsets to Cut-offs"	Melissa Hudnall	1
Alice Shaneyfelt Howell	Margaret Stines Nielsen and Mardi Anderson	2
"Dear Lib" A letter from Kearney Junction in 1873 from Rebecca Almira Hamer	Mark R. Ellis	3
Law and Order in Buffalo County	Mark R. Ellis	4
Fifty Years of International Harvester Company in Buffalo County	Howard L. Mefferd	5
Buda: The oldest "Town" in Buffalo Country	Mardi Anderson	6
Volume 27 (2004)
Title	Author	Issue
The Student Handbook in the 20 century	Kami Lammers	1
School houses, Students and Teachers	Chris McClemens	2
Gilbert "George" Fitch	Carol Bosshardt	3
A Day in the Life of a depot Agent	Howard Kolbo	4
Labor of Love	Marian Johnson	5
A Tragic Story of Womanhood	Kendra Moore	6
Volume 28 (2005)
Title	Author	Issue
Sweetwater, Nebraska	Mardi Anderson	1
Fort Kearny's Unconventional Army Units	Kevin Moelle	2
Rebecca Almira (McCord) Hamer	Kendra Moore	3
Harrison Township	Mardi Anderson	4
A Town on the Move: From Armada to Miller	Heather Stauffer	5
Kearney's 50th Anniversary Parade (1923)	Mark R Ellis	6
Volume 29 (2006)
Title	Author	Issue
Kearney's 50th Anniversary Pioneer Celebration: The Come Back Letters	Mardi Anderson	1
A Double Murder in Odessa: The State of Nebraska vs. Frank Dinsmore	Ross Huxoll	2
The Acheys remember Kearney's early days	Mardi Anderson	3
We can Serve Behind the Lines	Sarah Westesen	4
Coach George Van Buren	Jordan Kuck	5
The Come Back Letters Part 3	Mardi Anderson	6
Volume 30 (2007)
Title	Author	Issue
Ronald the "Farnam Flash" Lewis	Jordan Kuck	1
"The Greatest Season Ever"	Mark R. Ellis	2
"It's Fun to Run with the Champions"	Jordan Kuck	3
"Frank Lydie: One of Kearney's Best"	Jordan T. Kuck	4
	Valerie L. Vierk	5
Winded: Kearney's Cyclone of 1908	Heather Stauffer	6
Volume 31 (2008)
Title	Author	Issue
	Valerie Lee Vierk	1
	Valerie Lee Vierk	2
Tied at the Waist: The Evolution of the Apron	Donna Richards	3
	Valerie Vierk	4
Home On the Loup River (Freighters Hotel) - Part I	Mary Kenney	5
Home On the Loup River (Freighters Hotel) - Part I	Mary Kenney
Volume 32 (2009)
Title	Author	Issue
The Pioneer Preacher: Rev. Asbury Collins and his Family	Brennon Malcom	1
Growing up Tough	Mary Lee Pesek	2
Amanda Swenson, Kearney's Swedish Song Bird	Katherine Wielechowski	3
Kearney's Popular Mayor: Mr. W. H. "Bill" Knaggs	Edited by Katherine Wielechowski	4
Kearney Army Air Base: A Photographic Journal	Katherine Wielechowski	5
Beauty in Words, Horror in Life: The Poetry of World War II - part 1	Compiled By Katherine Wielechowski	6
Volume 33 (2010)
Title	Author	Issue
Beauty in Words, Horror in Life: The Poetry of World War II - part II	Compiled By Katherine Wielechowski	1
The Homan's Life on the Boyd Ranch	Janice Shafer	2
Letter, Telephone, E-Mail; A Brief History of Long-Distance Communication	Katherine Wielechowski	3
The Story of Olive Hayes Doty	Compiled by Mardi Anderson	4
"To the Black Hills, If Nothing Bigger Than a Pumkin Goes Through Us" Part I	Chuck Real	5
"To the Black Hills, If Nothing Bigger Than a Pumkin Goes Through Us" Part II	Chuck Real	6
Volume 34 (2011)
Title	Author	Issue
"To the Black Hills, If Nothing Bigger Than a Pumkin Goes Through Us" Part III	Chuck Real	1
Remembering Patrick Edward Fitzgerald	Gerald A. (Jerry) Pickerell	2
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