"This book is a short treatment of a long history. Nebraska has been inundated by ancient seas, carved by glaciers, and settled by ancient cultures who learned

The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 turns upside down the traditional way of thinking about one of the most important laws ever passed in American history. The act

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Where the eastern and western currents of American life merge as smoothly as one river flows into another is a place called Nebraska. There we find the Platte,