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Parent topics
- United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
Subtopics
Cities and towns
- Grand Island [r]: A city located on the Platte River in the central part of Nebraska; estimated population (2006) 45,000. [e]
- Omaha [r]: The largest city in Nebraska, located on the Missouri River; estimated population (2006) 420,000. [e]
- Lincoln [r]: The capital city of Nebraska, located on open prairie in the southeastern part of the state; estimated population (2006) 241,000. [e]
Politics and government
State governemnt
U.S. Senate
- Ben Nelson [r]: U.S. Senator, (D-Nebraska); Senate Committee on Agriculture; Senate Committee on Appropriations; Senate Armed Services Committee; Senate Committee on Rules and Administration; Moderate Dems Working Group [e]
- Mike Johanns [r]: U.S. Senator (R-Nebraska); Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs [e]
U.S. House of Representatives
- Jeff Fortenberry [r]: U.S. Representative (R-Nebraska), U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Republican Study Committee [e]
- Adrian Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lee Terry [r]: Add brief definition or description
Social, cultural, and educational
Industry and agriculture
- Ogallala aquifer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Corn [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Irrigation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Geographical and geological features
- Great Plains [r]: A large area of semi-arid grasslands located east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi River and extending from Texas northwards into southern Canada. [e]
- Loup River [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Missouri River [r]: Main drainage river of the north central United States, arising in the Rocky Mountains of southwest Montana and flowing 2315 miles until it empties into the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri. [e]
- Niobrara River [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Platte River [r]: A river formed by the confluence of the North Platte and South Platte rivers in southwestern Nebraska which flows eastwards from there through Nebraska for 310 miles until it empties into the Missouri River near Omaha. [e]
- Republican River [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sand Hills [r]: Add brief definition or description
Noteworthy places
People
- Red Cloud [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Jennings Bryan [r]: (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) American politician, Democratic presidential nominee and lawyer in the Scopes Trial. [e]
Federal
U.S. Military installations
- Offutt Air Force Base [r]: United States Air Force base in Omaha, Nebraska, which is the home of United States Strategic Command and the 55th Wing of C3I-ISR aircraft [e]
- F. E. Warren Air Force Base [r]: A geographically immense United States Air Force base, spreading across Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming, containing the overall headquarters, Twentieth Air Force, of the operational land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles of the United States, as well as approximately one-third of the missiles [e]
Federal lands
- Oglala National Grassland [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest [r]: Add brief definition or description
Nebraska history
- Louisiana Purchase [r]: A land purchase of the entire Louisiana Territory in 1803 from France by the United States by President Thomas Jefferson. [e]
- Oregon Trail [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fort Kearney [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fort Robinson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kansas Nebraska Act [r]: A U.S. Congressional Act of 1854 creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and allowing the settlers to decide whether or not to allow slavery. [e]
- Homestead Act of 1862 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pony Express [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Unnion Pacific Railroad [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dust bowl [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Willa Cather [r]: (1873-1947) American writer who wrote several novels portraying frontier life on the Great Plains of America in the late 19th century, among them O Pioneers! and My Ántonia. [e]
- O Pioneers! [r]: 1913 novel by Willa Cather about a young woman who manages and operates a farming homestead during frontier years in late 19th century Nebraska. [e]
- My Ántonia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Meyer v. Nebraska [r]: 1923 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a Nebraska law forbidding the teaching of modern languages other than English to young schoolchildren. [e]
- Arbor Day [r]: Add brief definition or description
U.S. states and Canadian provinces of the Great Plains
- Alberta [r]: One of the western prairie provinces of Canada, rich in oil and with a population of about 3.5 million (2007 estimate). [e]
- Saskatchewan [r]: An Prairie province in central Canada with a population of about 994,000. [e]
- Manitoba [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Montana [r]: One of the 50 states of the United States (statehood 1889, 41st state), located in the northern Great Plains and eastern Rocky Mountains; est. population (2008) 967,000. [e]
- North Dakota [r]: One of the 50 states of the United States (statehood 1889, 39th state) located on the Great Plains in north central U.S.; est. population (2008) 641,000. [e]
- South Dakota [r]: One of the 50 states of the United States (statehood 1889, 40th state) located on the Great Plains in north central U.S.; est. population (2008) 804,000. [e]
- Wyoming [r]: One of the 50 states of the United States (statehood 1890, 44th state) located on the Great Plains and eastern Rocky Mountains in north central U.S.; est. population (2008) 533,000. [e]
- Colorado [r]: State in the western United States. [e]
- Kansas [r]: 34th state of the USA [e]
- Oklahoma [r]: The 46th state admitted to the United States of America. [e]
- Texas [r]: A State in the Southern USA. [e]
