Found we have 3 issues of 1924 NSHS "History & Record of Pioneer Days" - scanned & OCR done. Final proofing NOT done, just minor clean-up. Nothing to compare against! Don't know where the copies are, OR the last issue for that year. (Tells you something about housekeeping here - grin). Dont' know when/if they will turn up. Will "fix" if they do! http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/Journals/HPR/index.html Make certain to scan through the "Historical Notes" & "Historical Paragraphs" for short bits related to any/all places/people. --------------------------------------- Vol VII, no 1 Jan-Mar 1924 Exploration of Aboriginal Remains in Loup Valley First Historical Broadcast First Homestead in Box Butte Co., J. A. Smith Vicksburg Citizen, July 2, 1863, Lucy Haywood The Beginnings of Schuyler (Colfax Co) Founding of the Irish Colony at O'Neill Early Pioneer Period in the West, J. A. Smith Early History Cheyenne and Kimball Counties Some Changes in Nebraska Early Railroad Develop't of Nebr. - C. J. Ernst Hebron Journal, A Chapter in Its History - Lucy J. Barger Deed to Historical Society of Tract near Doniphan - L. C. Dunlap Red Cloud Agency and Ft. Laramie in 1867-1874 - O. B. Unthank Responses to Nebraska First Historical Radio First White Girl Born in Franklin County Early Days at Minatare Danish Colonies in Howard Co. - Peter Ebbeson Article was NOT published in this issue, see page 57 of no. 2 (Correspondence: Question about "Doc" Middleton from J.S. Hoy) ----------------------------------- Vol VII, no 2 Apr-Jun 1924 Hymn to Nebraska, by Rev. William H. Buss of Fremont The Pioneer Doctor The Plum Creek Railroad Attack, 1867 Historical Paragraphs Monuments to Bohemian Pioneers and Pawnee Indian "Sky Chief" Elijah Filley, Leader in Improved Farming, by Prof. H. Clyde Filley The Stone Grave People of Nebraska and Kansas, Mark E. Zimmerman, of White Cloud Historical Notes Quakers and Nebraska Indians in 1869 The Mormon Trail Across Nebraska Santee Indian Agency in Peril (Marking Pioneer Trails in Washington County by D. A. R.) ------------------------------------ Vol VII, no 3 Jul-Sep 1924 Entire issues devoted to - The Route of the Spanish Invasion of Nebraska in 1720 The Site of the Massacre With eight illustrations and three maps on the text. The March of Villasur - 1720 (poem) (Map and correspondence) Massacre of Villasur Expedition The Platte-Loup Site Nebraska Historical Expedition - 1924 Spanish Chain Armor on the Loup. Additional References on Villasur Expedition Spanish Relics Near Genoa --------------------------------- Please use the topic index for lists of death notices, announcements of local history published in newspapers, correspondence (letter by your ancestor?), etc. T&C, absent minded messmakers