Archian Time, Nebraska a Part of the Ocean Bed -- Paleozoic Time -- Nebraska in the Carboniferous Age -- Coal in Nebraska -- Nebraska in the Permian Age -- The Mesozoic Time -- No Triassic and Jurassic Rocks in Nebraska -- The Cretaceous Period in Nebraska -- All Nebraska Dry Land -- Groups of Cretaceous Deposits -- Cenozoic Time -- The Tertiary Age in Nebraska -- Bad Lands in Nebraska -- Picture from Miocene Nebraska -- The Loup River Pliocene Deposits -- The Quaternary Age, the Age of Man -- The Glacial Period -- The Champlain, or Melting Period -- Beginning of the End -- River Bluffs and Terraces -- The First Nebraskan -- A Resume.
     Situation and Size -- General Topography -- Nebraska Climate--Health and Strength -- A Land of Beauty -- A Bird's Eye View of Nebraska -- Prof. Samuel Aughey's Verdict.

     Father Marquette and the Nebraska Indians -- Marquette's Indian Chart -- The Pawnees -- The Four Great Clans -- Lieut. Pike and the Republican Pawnees--The Major Stephen H. Long Expedition -- Long and the Loup Indians -- June 12, 1819, on the Loup -- The Red Man's Plague -- The Sioux Sweep down the Loup -- The Last of the Pawnees -- The Siouan Migration -- The Sioux, or Dakotahs --Sioux War of 1862-'69 -- The Cheyennes Become Involved -- Magnitude of the Westward Traffic -- The Plum Creek Massacre -- Battle of Summit Springs -- Gen. Custer's Massacre, June 25, 1876 -- Sioux War of 1890-'91 -- Present Status of the Sioux.

CHAPTER III.

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43-56

     Earliest Glimpses -- The "Seven Cities of Cibola" -- Coronado Sets out, February, 1540 -- "The Great Kingdom of Quivera " -- Across Kansas into Nebraska -- Quotations from Francis Lopez' History of the West Indies -- A Graphic Description of the Buffalo -- Quivera in Nebraska? -- Coronado's Letter Locating Quivera -- Judge Jas. W. Savage on the Question -- Was Quivera on the Loup? -- Mounds and other Signs on the North Loup -- Lewis and Clarke in Nebraska; July 13 to Sept. 5, 1804; Aug. 31 to Sept. 11, 1806 -- Other Pathfinders in Nebraska -- The Old Mormon Trail -- Mormon Settlers on the Lower Loup -- Importance of the Gold Fever to Nebraska -- The Louisiana Purchase, Apr. 30, 1803 -- Slavery Agitation -- Slavery forever Prohibited in Nebraska -- Lawlessness in the Territory -- The Compromise of 1850 -- The Kansas Nebraska Bill, 1854 -- Shaping the State -- Territorial Government organized -- Census of 1854 -- The Territorial Capital Fight -- Nebraska Gains Her Statehood -- The Making of the State -- Educational Factors -- Agriculture -- Stock Raising -- Political Nebraska.

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57-69

     The North Loup from a Car Window in 1904 -- The Dream of Empire Has Come true -- Why These Pages Were Written -- Limits of the North Loup Valley -- The North Loup River; Its Falls -- The Sand Hills once again -- Valley County in Outline -- Alkali Spots not Frequent -- Preparing for the Pioneer -- The Cedar Canyons -- Some Important Native Grasses -- Why the Buffalo Grass is Disappearing -- The Buffalo in the Valley -- Herds of Elk -- Numbers of Antelope and Deer -- The Only Bear -- Other Denizens of the Wild.

     Bloody Pages of History -- How the Valley Escaped the Cowboy Regime -- The Cowboy and the Settler -- Two Causes of the Cattlemen's Complaint -- Murder and Burning of Mitchell and Ketchum -- Trouble between the Olives and Ketchum -- Death of Bob Olive -- The Cold Blooded Murder at Devil's Canyon -- How the Assassins were Captured -- Trial and Conviction of I. P. Olive and Fred Fisher -- Vengeance at Last. 
     Surveying the Valley, 1868 -'70 --  "Happy Jack." Hunter, Scout and Friend -- "Happy Jack" in 1904 -- Geo. McAnulty's Sketch of "Little Buckshot" -- "Buckshot" Comes to the Loup.

     The Trail of the Loup -- Founding of "Athens," or St. Paul -- "The Danish Land and Homestead Colony" Founds Dannebrog -- The Seventh Day Baptists, Their First Committee -- The Voluntary Second Committee -- Extracts from W. H. Rood's Diary -- Crossing Nebraska -- Advancing up the North Loup -- Game Seems Plentiful -- First Actual Settlement in Val ley County -- Mortensen, Miller, Anderson and Smith "Trecking" to Valley County -- Camping on "Raccoon Creek " -- Settlement of Section Eight, Ord Township -- Peter Mortensen's Dugout; Hostelry, School House, Court House -- Occupations Of the First Summer -- "Mell" Goodenow's First Square Meal in Valley County --  Christian Frey's Adventure with the "Indians" -- "Det Var da som Pokker" -- The Seventh Day Baptists Reach the Site of North Loup -- Elder Babcock Conducts the First Religious Services Held in the Valley -- Some of the Early Homesteaders -- A Faithful Band  -- Preparing for the First Winter 'The Dane Creek Colony Strengthened  -- Falle Moller and Family Arrive --  Coming of the Post Clan and other Frontiersmen -- Everyday Life in the Settlement -- "Mell" Goodenow Gets His Start -- Mortensen's First Pig; Its Sad End -- The Settlement Across the River -- Charles H. Jones Tells His Story -- Arrival at Jones Canyon, Nov 10, 1872 -- Nucleus of Garfield County Settlement.

     Valley County and the Organic Act of March 1, 1871 -- The First Election in Valley County, March 1, 1873 -- Resolutions -- Certificate of Election -- Early Commissioners' Meetings -- First Tax Levy -- First Ten County  Warants -- Squabble over Militia Accoutrements -- Odds and Ends -- The Ord Bridge Struggle on -- How the Injunction Failed -- The Sheriff Arrives too Late -- Cost of First River Bridge -- The County Pays $1200.00 for a Small Safe.

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110-122

     The Restless, Thieving Sioux -- Battle of Sioux Creek, March 1, 1873 -- The Men Who Went and how They Were Armed -- Hot on the Indian Trail -- Face to Face with the Foe -- A Hasty Retreat -- Counting Losses -- Captain Mix on a Scouting Expedition -- Mortensen on the Indian Raids -- Emma Haskell Describes an Indian Scare.
     Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873 -- The Storm Breaks -- Losses in the Upper Valley -- Losses in Howard County -- Tragic Death of Mrs. Cooper and Daughter Lizzie -- Dillon Haworth and Family Freeze to Death.

     Crops in 1873 -- The Battle of Pebble Creek, Jan. 19, 1874 -- Richard McClimans' House Attacked -- Looting the Trappers' Cabin -- Council of War -- The Battle Is on -- Death of Marion Littlefield.
     Breeding Grounds of the Migrating Locust -- Our First Loc ust Year -- How They Migrate -- Some Exceptional Locust Years -- The Locusts Reach the Loup, July 1874 -- Times to Try Men's Souls.

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130-135

     The Several Appropriations for Fort Hartsuff -- Erection of Fort Hartsuff a Fortunate Circumstance -- Ruin Wrought in the Cedar Canyons -- Hartsuff a Fort in Name only -- Who the Commanders Were -- The Fort Abandoned May 1, 1881 -- Some Good Citizens early Identified with Army Life.

     How North Loup Was Organized -- First Two Schools in the County -- North Loup Platted -- Growth and Later History -- The Ord Townsite Company, 1875 -- The Court House Proposition -- The Beginnings of Ord -- Further Accessions to the Town's Growth -- Ambitious Calamus -- Records and Affidavits -- Rise and Fall of Vinton -- Ord, a Strong Business Center -- Quotations from Andreas's History of Nebraska -- Ord has "Git." etc.

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148-155

     First Comers to the Middle Loup -- Some Early Hardships -- The Post Office Named -- The First School and Its Teacher -- The School Bond Fiasco -- The Criminal Trial in Mortensen's Dugout -- George McKellar Convicted of Murder -- John Wall's Advent to Arcadia -- Early Arcadia -- Hard Times A'knocking at the Door -- Arcadia in 1905 -- Lee's Park Settled in 1874 -- L. H. Knight on Lee's Park -- Early Settlers -- The First Post Office -- The Town of Lee Park.

     A Resume -- The Battle of the Blow-out, May, 1876 -- Death of Sergeant Dougherty -- C. H. Jones' Version of the Battle -- Some Timid Settlers Leave -- Better Times a-coming -- Wheeler County Organized, Apr. 11, 1881 -- First Election, Dec. 30, 1884 -- Second Election, Jan. 30. 1885 -- Willow Springs Declared the County Seat -- Last Act in the County Seat Dram a -- Affidav its and Minutes -- Burwell Made the County Seat, Feb. 18, 1890 -- The Combatants Bury the Hatchet -- C. H. Jones Tells the Story of the County Seat Contest -- Origin of the Name Burwell -- Building the Town -- Prosperity "Comes to Burwell -- The Future and Garfield County.

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173-178

     The Pathfinders -- D. A. Gard and Others Arrive -- Making Three Hundred Mile Trips for Flour and Groceries -- School District No. 9 -- Other Settlers Spread from Kent to Moulton -- Loup County Organized in 1883 -- The Building of Taylor -- Taylor Made the Permanent County Seat, July 23, 1883 -- Hard Years in Loup County -- What Alfalfa, Bromegrass and English Blue Grass Will Do for Loup County -- Stat istics -- Descripton by Town ships.

     The Oldest Settlers Arrive -- The County Organized; Scotia Made the County Seat -- Irish Catholics at O'Connor -- The Railroads and the County Seat -- The B. and M. and Greeley Center -- The County Seat Goes to Greeley -- Immediate Effect on Scotia -- Scotia's Future.

     Approach of a Prairie Fire -- The Beautiful October Day in 1878 -- Terrible Death of Albert Cottrell by Fire -- Widespread Ruin in the Valley -- A Scarred and Suffering Community - -  Cause of Hailstorms in our Valley -- The Destructive Hailstorm of Aug. 5, 1885 -- The Ord Quiz Tells the Story  -- The Storm at Calamus -- Notes from over the Affected District -- The Cyclone -- Widespread Destruction in the Blizzard of January 12, 1888 -- The Storm -- Instances of Suffering -- Mrs. Powell at Hard Scrabble -- Minnie Freeman at Midvale -- Views on Hero- worship -- The Whole Truth in a Nutshell -- Give Honor to Whom Honor Is Due" -- The Burwell Tornado of Friday Evening, Sept. 15, 1905 -- The Storm Breaks -- Frank Hinnich's Experience -- Miraculous Escape of the Hanna Family -- Sad Death of Mrs. E. B. McKinney -- Last of the Star Store -- The Storm Retraces Its Course -- In the Country Districts -- The Relief Committee at Work -- Odds and Ends -- Some MiracuIous Escapes -- Freaks of the Storm -- An Estimate of Losses.

     Elections in Valley County by Years -- Drawing Party Lines -- The County Adopts the Supervisor System -- The Fight on Clerk in 1895 -- The New Office of Clerk of District Court -- Valley County again in the Republican Column -- Influence Of Railroads upon Settlement -- Our Mail and Stage Lines -- Mail Movements -- Ord and North Loup Vote to Secure the Railroad -- The Railroad Celebration Meeting -- The B. & M. Builds into the Valley in 1887 -- "Railroad Racket" -- Some Results of the Coming -- Arcadia Gets the B. & M.

     The Printing Press in the Loup Valley -- First Newspapers in Valley County -- The Valley County Journal Established, March , 1879 -- The First Opposition Paper -- The Ord Quiz almost Twenty-five Years Old -- The Standard and the Democratic Press -- The Star and The Blizzard; Prohibition Papers -- The Ord Journal and The Independent; Populist Papers -- Other Changes in the Journal Management -- The Real Estate Register and The Valley County Times -- North Loup Newspapers -- The Loyalist -- The Arcadia Papers -- The Arcadia Champion -- Early Newspapers in Garfield County -- A Mixed Newspaper History -- Genesis of the Tribune -- Loup County Newspapers -- Scotia's Newspaper History.

     The Nebraska Grangers -- Fight to Collect the B. & M. Taxes -- Stringent Money and Low Prices -- The Dull Years 1875 and 1876 -- Immigration to the Loup in 1878 and 1879 -- The Prosperous Decade 1880-90 -- Land Grabbing in the Early 80's -- Real Estate Speculation in Our Valley -- The First Dry Year, '90 -- The Critical Period in Loup Valley History Begins -- The Hard Years a Blessing in Disguise -- The Great Drought Year, 1894 -- New Cycle of Good Crops and Prosperity Ushered in -- What the Hard Years Have Taught Us -- Prosperity.

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