Nebraska 1875

Its Advantages, Resources, and Drawbacks

By: Edwin A. Curley, Richard Edwards (Introduction by)

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Europeans who considered emigrating to the American frontier in the nineteenth century could find little information about the real conditions they would face. And most of what was available-the broadsides and advertisements of land companies, speculators, and promoters-was highly suspect. Edwin A. Curley's 1875 account offered something different.

Edwin A. Curley was an English journalist writing for The Field: The Country Gentleman's Newspaper, a London weekly, at a time when the advice to migrating British farmers and farm laborers was that they would find their best chances in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, and that opportunities in the United States had somewhat dried up. Styling himself as special commissioner from The Field to the emigrant fields of North America, Curley arrived in America to report in person on conditions there. His weekly articles were skeptical, acerbic, and amusing but only modestly encouraging to emigrants. Then he arrived on the Great Plains, where he underwent an almost religious conversion, so excited was he at the exceptional possibilities he found there.

Curley wrote his book as a comprehensive guide to these opportunities, covering geography, surface geology, climate, land availability and prices, costs of food and farm equipment, and fruits and trees that might be grown in Nebraska. It contains several maps and illustrations, accounts of the success or failure of individual settlers, and specific reports on every Nebraska county.

Richard Edwards is a professor of economics and fellow in the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has published ten books.

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Emigration	p. 1
American Immigration ; its Past, Present, and Future	p. 23
The Geography of Nebraska ; How to Get There	p. 40
The City of Omaha	p. 53
Statistical	p. 74
Statistical	p. 80
Climatic Considerations	p. 100
The Surface Geology of Nebraska. (By Prof. S. Aughey, Ph.D.)	p. 114
The same (continued)	p. 126
On the Platte and the Elkhorn	p. 140
On the Elkhorn and the Logan	p. 160
The Missouri to the Niobrara	p. 170
On the Platte and the Loup	p. 177
The History of Nebraska. (By Oscar A. Mullon, Esq.)	p. 187
On the Weeping Water and the Nemahas	p. 200
Otoe County. (By Dr. John H. Blue)	p. 208
Up the Salt River	p. 223
Some Regions of the Blues	p. 234
On the Headwaters of the Blues	p. 245
South Central Nebraska	p. 254
South Central Nebraska (continued)	p. 265
The Hateful Locust	p. 277
Forty-three thousand square miles	p. 300
The Wild Fruits of Nebraska. (By Prof. S. Aughey, Ph.D.)	p. 316
Timber and Fuel	p. 336
Fences	p. 350
Pastoral Marvels	p. 361
Pastoral Marvels (continued)	p. 378
Associate and Co-operative Colonization	p. 395
Land	p. 410
Notes on Changes in Steamship Lines	p. 430
Index	p. 431
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