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• Nebraska
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Nebraska is an agricultural State. Its eastern part is mainly devoted to corn, the west is a fertile wheat field, while the center-north shelters immense farms specialized in the bovine breeding. In the west it is crossed by the Oregon Trail, the Road of Oregon, which goes along the Platte river. In many parts of it, monuments recall pioneers on their way towards the West. |
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Capital : Lincoln
Surface : 200,360 km2
Population : 1,656,870
Omaha : 335,795
Lincoln : 191,972 |
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Boystown
Chimney Rock
Fort Robinson
Homestead National Monument of America
Ogallala
Omaha
Scotts Bluff National Monument
Village of the Pioneers
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| Near the town of Scotts Bluff you can admire a 820 feet high rock column, at the edge of the old Oregon Trail, famous among the pioneers between 1843 and 1869. Scotts Bluff National Monument was for those travellers a geographical beacon on the long road to West. Taking into account the low speed of the covered carriages, one could see it, people used to say say, almost two weeks before reaching it. The pioneers of today can take the Road 80, which crosses the State, and connects its principal cities following the same axis.
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| Lincoln The Lincoln Capitol is a remarkable example of modern architecture. The State Historical Museum organizes attractive expositions about Indians and the pioneers' lifes. At Minden, west of Lincoln, close to Hastings, the Pioneer Village presents the history of the United-States and the progressive development of the country. In no less than twenty-two buildings inside a park, more than 30.000 objects recalling this evolution are exposed, from the time of the pioneers to our days, including an old station of Pony Express, an Indian fortress, old-styled traveling caravans, antique cars and restored planes. | | 
| Omaha Located on the western bank of the Missouri River, the State's largest city and the fourth rail junction of the area, Omaha was founded by the prospectors and the colonists as a stage on the Oregon Trail. You can admire here one of the world's largest cereal and cattle market, as well as a very developed agro-alimentary processing sector. Joslyn Art Museum has one of the most beautiful Western Art collections and more particularly works of the explorers/artists who sailed up the Missouri on the steps of Lewis and Clark.
The Old Market is a renovated historical district abounding with picturesque boutiques. In the west of Omaha is Boys Town, a world-renowned educative town, where Father Flannigan realized in 1917 his dream to give shelter to young orphan boys by integrating them totally in a social group life and teaching them to manage the community agricultural firm. Now Father Flannigan's dream still continue under the name of Boys and Girls Town. | | 
| North Plate In 1877, while he was still dedicating his life to his great Wild West Show, Buffalo Bill built a ranch, a few miles north of North Plate. The Victorian-styled house is today protected and open to the public, and one can find here some great souvenirs of the West.
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| Homestead National Monument of America Situated near the city of Beatrice, in the southeastern part of the State. It was the place where the colonists heading to the West made their first call to the Homestead Act, a law voted in 1862, which managed the distribution of lands. Every sollicitor was given a stuck of land as large as 160 acres (0.6 km2).
It was a certain Daniel Freeman who received the first Homestead, today conserved by the National Park Service.
So had the Homestead Act granted every immigrant, head of family above 21 year old, the possibility once unimaginable in Europe, to become a landmaster. "Free Land!" The real American dream.
| | | | | | Photos : Nebraska Division of Travel and Tourism B.Greenspan - Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
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