Early Native Americans were ingenious in developing muted pigments for face painting and artwork, but came to rely on a steady supply of brilliant colors from traders.

Nebraska began registering automobiles in 1905, but didn’t manufacture license plates until 1915. Owners made their own plates.

In July of 1874, Rocky Mountain locusts swarmed over the central United States in numbers not seen before or since.

Over the years, there were searches for remains of a spaceship-like object, but the Journal finally exposed the story as a hoax in 1927.

By the mid-1870s, Nebraska’s open-range cattle industry was experiencing ownership disputes caused by unregulated “round-ups”.

Were it not for Francis Burt’s digestive problems, Bellevue might be Nebraska’s big city and Omaha its suburb.