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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OG7_paha-sapa_Chadron-NE.html
Paha Sapa is sacred land of the Lakota that the white man has named Black Hills. We never lived in this place. It is the womb of Mother Earth—the rightful home of birds and animals. We came here only for ceremonies, vision quests and burials…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OG3_historic-northwestern-nebraska_Chadron-NE.html
The Pine Ridge Country of northwestern Nebraska is among the greatest historic places of the nineteenth-century American West. It was long the homeland and hunting grounds of the Lakota (Western Sioux). White fur traders began arriving during th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OFH_fort-robinson-camp-sheridan-pine-ridge-indian-agency-road_Chadron-NE.html
Following the 1874 establishment of military posts near the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies for the Oglala and Brule Sioux, the army laid out a forty-two-mile road to transport military and Indian supplies between the agencies and posts.
Ogla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OFG_chadron-creek-trading-post_Chadron-NE.html
Employees of Lancaster P. Lupton built a trading post on the creek near here in 1841 to trade with the Sioux Indians. From 1842 until at least 1845 this post was managed by Louis B. Chartran, first for Sibille and Adams and later for Pratte & Caba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYVS_the-chadron-chicago-cowboy-race_Chadron-NE.html
America's longest horse race began here June 13, 1893. The 1,000 mile race ended June 27 in Chicago at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The race apparently was the idea of Chadron jokester John G. Maher. Seven of nine riders finished, some traveling…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTPU_crawford_Crawford-NE.html
Crawford sprang up as a tent city on land owned by homesteader/newspaper correspondent William E. Annin in 1886 when the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad pushed through the Nebraska Panhandle. To Incorporate the town, editor William E…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FP_the-fort-pierre-fort-laramie-trail_Chadron-NE.html
From about 1837 until 1850, more than a quarter million buffalo robes bought from Indians and 27 tons of fur company trade goods were hauled over the 300 mile long Fort Pierre-Fort Laramie Trail that followed the White River through this area. Fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FO_bordeaux-trading-post_Chadron-NE.html
From about 1846 until 1872, an Indian "trading house" occupied a site near here. Built by James Bordeaux, the trading station was once attacked and set afire by hostile Crow warriors. Fortunately, some friendly Sioux Indians came to the rescue and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EO_fort-robinson_Harrison-NE.html
In March, 1874, the U.S. Government authorized the establishment of a military camp at the Red Cloud Indian Agency on the White River. Home of some 13,000 Indians, many of whom were hostile, the Agency was one of the most troublesome spots on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26B_buffalo-soldiers-at-fort-robinson_Harrison-NE.html
Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry regiments (called "buffalo soldiers" by the Plains Indians) garrisoned Fort Robinson for eighteen years and played an important role in northwestern Nebraska's history. Organized in 1866, the regiments…