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A collection of some of our best issues from the past. All issues marked with a star below, are included in this set.
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July/August 2010
- The Gifts of Paxton
- Nebraska UFOs
- North Platte River Valley Road Trip
- Airboating
- Artist Ray Knaub
- Nebraska's Big Rodeo in Burwell
- Lincon's Ferguson Mansion
- Robert Gilder
- Horse-Powered Haying
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May/June 2010
- The Colors of Eastern Nebraska
- The Illustrated Life of Mike Hagel
- The May 1975 Omaha Tornado
- One man, his bike and 91 restaurants
- Little Salt Fork Marsh: Salt of the Earth
- Pit Spitting in Sargent
- Ogallala Lilacs at Meadowlark Hill
- The Pony Express
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March/April 2010
- Shadows of Splendor: Omaha's Trans-Mississippi Exposition
- Siblings in the Wild
- Growing a Dream at Elyria Gardens
- Clarkson's Stubborn Bohemians
- From Behind Fort Walls
- Rugby Cats
- Flocking to Common Ground
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January/February 2010
- When Artistry Snowballs
- On the (Country) Air with RFD-TV
- The Man at the Center
- One Man's Music Boxes
- Lincoln's Big Mac of Music
- Making Connections in Southeast Nebraska
- Taking the Plunge at Meadville
- Valentine's Vision
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November/December 2009
- The Scrap Drive
- Minden: Nebraska's Christmas City
- Omaha Puppet Masters
- Country Potter or Beatrice
- Valentine's Rosfeld Men
- Terese Svoboda: Writer of Human Secrets, Revealed
- Long Road to Lincoln
- Eight Natural Wonders
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September/October 2009
- Nebraska's Pumpkin Patches
- Grand Island's Middle Town
- Autumn on the Prairie
- Lincoln's Anniversary Mansion
- Fairbury's Resolution
- Dundee Village
- Paying Respects
- Cornhusker Marching Band
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July/August 2009
- Diary of a Riverboat Captain
- Johnson Lake
- Gardening with Herbs
- On the Ranch with Prairie Dogs
- Undiscovered Crawford
- The Meteor of Kent Bellows
- Fremont Finds its Path with John C. Fremont Days
- Lingering on Lake McConaughy
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May/June 2009
- Wildflowers of the Panhandle
- Catching Crazy Horse
- The Capitol City Marathon
- Downtown Dining in Grand Island
- Meadowspark
- Gothenburg's Feisty Swedes
- Santa Lucia's Enduring Grace
- No Ordinary Outfit - Calamus Outfitters
- The Oldest Romance in the West
- Suited for Soccer
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March/April 2009
- Hidden Treasures of the State Capitol
- Nebraska Ballooning
- Hosting the Cranes
- Wakefield's Winning Team
- The Pedal Clinic
- For the Love of Reading
- Ash Hollow State Historical Park
- In Pursuit of Tri-City Railroad Tales
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January/February 2009
- The Winter of 1948-1949
- The Dutch Mennonites of Henderson
- Omaha's Zongker Brothers
- Whispering Pines Bed and Breakfast
- Oranges in the Snow
- To Paddle or Die
- Winter Birding in the Platte River Valley
- The Savidge Brothers: Barnstorming Pioneers
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November/December 2008
- Refined Gold: Omaha's Gold Coast
- Bridgeport: Hub of Opportunity
- On the Trail of Old Jules
- Toadstool's Alien Landscape
- Patchwork of the World
- Sandhills Artists
- Baker Family Confectioners
- The Altruistic Cardinal
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September/October 2008
- Walking Tall: Nebraska's Husker Walk-ons
- Pierce's Legacy
- Finding Goats in the Heart of Cattle Country
- Indian Cave State Park
- Box Elder Mushrooms of the Verdigris Valley
- Crawford Farrier Doug Butler
- Kearney Calligrapher Arthur Pierce
- Alliance's WWII Army Base
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July/August 2008
- Summer Fun at the Calamus
- Ainsworth: Nowhere They'd Rather Be
- Testing Tractors for the World in Lincoln
- Blair's Quiet Flyers
- Fort Atkinson Comes to Life
- Emily's Garden
- In Search of the Wild Missouri
- A 3,000-mile, 93-County-Seat Bike Ride
- A Rodeo Weekend
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May/June 2008
- Weeping Water
- Voyage of the Plattepus I
- Omaha Royals
- Vision of John Johnson
- Butterfly Gardening
- Horse and Carriage
- Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival
- An Evening at "The Office"
- Bald Eagle Family
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March/April 2008
- Sandhills Nights
- Nebraska Soda Fountains
- Kimball
- Genoa's Indian School
- Hadley Heavin
- Mitchell's Feed Barn
- John Sorensen & the Abbott Sisters
- A Night with the Cranes
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January/February 2008
- 12 Months of Nebraska
- St. Benedict Center
- Red Cloud
- Dry Valley Church
- Artist Ken Hosmer
- Schoolchildren's Blizzard of 1888
- Haythorn Ranch
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November/December 2007
- Ervin Goeller: Web-Only Feature
- Hastings' Back Alley Bakery
- Holiday Potluck Recipes
- Marking Time Photography
- Cambridge
- Sioux Lookout
- Schuyler's Oak Ballroom
- Mitchell's Brown Sheep Wool Co.
- History of Lake McConaughy
- Bird Lady of Schramm Park
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September/October 2007
- Mullen
- The Two Wars of Ben Kuroki
- 10 Favorite Nebraska Birding Locations
- In the Air with Chandy Clanton
- Bivouacking Via Bicycle
- Sen. Chuck Hagel
- Remembering Camp Atlanta
- Sheepwagon Hideouts
- Inheritanct
- Harvest Prayer of a Middle-Aged Farmwife
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July/August 2007
- Seward
- Omaha's Indie Rockers
- The Panhandle Wildfires
- Petersburg Threshing Bee
- Thin Pink Lines
- Flowers in the Hog Pen
- Flight of the Explorer
- Niobrara Valley Preserve
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May/June 2007
- Fremont
- Yellow Flag Irises of Agate Springs Ranch
- Omaha's Ellis Island
- Blowout Penstemon
- Wild Asparagus Season
- Omaha Artist John Thein
- Logan County Branding
- Offutt Air Show
- Storyteller (New Department)
- Road Trip (New Department)
- Riding the Rails in Fremont
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March/April 2007
- Alliance
- Boys Town Sports Legacy
- Mud: A Joel Sartore Photo Essay
- Tall Tale Contest
- Country Neighbor Restaurant
- The Milkweed Way
- Knifemaker Dale Novak
- A Dozen Square-Tails and a Sharpy
- Row Big Red
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January/February 2007
- Ashland
- Nebraska Life 10th Anniversary
- Lakeland Sod High School
- The Boys of Winter
- Blind Sam
- Artist J. Marlene Mueller
- Letting Go
- Tecumseh State Prison Slideshow
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November/December 2006
- Scottsbluff
- Searching for Scarface
- The Bells of St. Boniface Church
- A Prairie Christmas
- Nebraska Air National Guard
- Artist Norris Chee
- David Kaufmann – Mr. Grand Island
- The Corvair Miracle
- Lincoln Improv Theater
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September/October 2006
- West Point
- Dreaming in Devil's Nest
- Battle of Blue Water
- Straw Bale House in the Sandhills
- Lincoln's Sunken Gardents
- Bob Gibson - My Brother's Keeper
- Dave Stewart - The Accidental Artist
- Nebraska City's Apple-Picking Time
- Coming Home to Florence
- Back Roads of Keya Paha County
- West Point Photos - Web-Only Feature
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July/August 2006
- Geneva
- St. Paul
- Cowboy Action Shooting
- Happy Jack Peak and Chalk Mine
- The Pond People of Clarkson
- South of Town: Jack Nordeen Photos South of Genoa
- Farmers Market
- Kearney Artist Martha Pettigrew
- Bee Keeping
- Canoeing the Niobrara
- Farmers Market Photos
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May/June 2006
- Broken Bow
- Road Trip
- A Bike Ride Across Nebraska
- Reveille at Fort Hartsuff
- The Shady Side of Nebraska Gardening
- Jerry Spiker: Sidney's Blacksmith Artist
- Nebraska Butterflies
- Model T Days
- Spring Creek Prairie
- College World Series
- Bobbi and Steve Olson's BRAN Photos
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March/April 2006
- Bellevue
- Prairie Wilderness
- Restoring Prairie
- Flying Hoffmans
- Jess Benjamin – Still Working the Ranch
- "Black Jack" Pershing
- One Part Angel Book Excerpt
- Dismal River
- Zac Tobias
- Firesky Images – Web-Only Feature
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January/February 2006
- Hastings
- Ten Treasures
- At Home in the Barn
- Big Horn Sheep of the Wildcat Hills
- Blackout – a boy in McCook during World War II
- How Boyd County Got Saved
- 2005 Nebraska State Fair Photography
- Nebraska Kitchens (New Department)
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November/December 2005
- Gering
- Sowbelly Canyon
- Hudson-Meng Bison Bonebed
- Omaha's South 13th Street
- German Christmas bread from McCook's Sehnert Bakery
- Pahaku - saving Pawnee sacred ground
- The Schoolhouse Potter of Burr
- Backstage at UNL's student theater
- Raptor Recovery Nebraska
- Ab's Place - losing the family farmstead
- Autumn at DeSoto Bend National Wildlife Refuge
- Champion Mill
- Old-Time Nebraska Songs
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September/October 2005
- Small Town Rodeos
- Holdrege
- Syracuse
- High Plains Homestead
- Nebraska's Most Beautiful
- Sailing Omaha's Lake Cunningham
- Glen Rural School
- Nonna's Palazzo of Grand Island
- York College's new century-old chapel
- The Important Things– Fathers, Sons & the Huskers
- Coming Home to the Family Farm
- Goldenrod for Mrs. Mattson
- Nebraska Junk Jaunt
- Rowe Sanctuary
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July/August 2005
- Wahoo
- Storm Chasers
- Bike Trails
- Bemis Art Center
- The Trial of Standing Bear
- Only in Nebraska: 99 Travel Tips
- County Fairs
- Mexican-American Families in North Platte Valley
- Chickens, Hogs, a Lilac Bush & One Blue House with a Cupola
- Wayne's Daylily Festival
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May/June 2005
- South Sioux City
- Nebraska at Night
- Highway 12 Outlaw Trail
- Artist Deborah Murphy
- Eating Wildflowers and Native Plants in Brewster
- Bur Oaks
- Surviving the Great Republican River Flood of 1935
- Chadron Dinner Train
- Ashfall Fossil Beds
- "Along the Edge of Daylight" with Photographer Georg Joutras
- Indianola's Bucket Man
- Surfboard Furniture in Clay Center
- Hopewell Church
- Bowring Ranch
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March/April 2005
- Grand Island
- Sandhill Cranes
- Knight Flight: North Platte's Daring 1920s Aviator
- Elgin's Plantation House
- Prairie Chickens
- Beauty of Barbed Wire
- In Praise of Ranch Life
- Nebraska City Lewis & Clark center
- Amish in Nebraska
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January/February 2005
- Cozad
- State Capitol
- Surviving a Blizzard in Nebraska's High Country
- William Kloefkorn's Winter on the Platte
- Murder in the Sandhills
- Winnebago Tribe
- Emery Blagdon's Healing Machines
- Ornamental Grasses
- A Prisoner's Tale
- State Fair Photography
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November/December 2004
- McCook
- Husker Game Day
- Fort Robinson
- Highway 2
- Chadron's Hip Old Hotel
- Western Nebraska Fiction
- Fontenelle Forest
- McCook's Frank Lloyd Wright House
- Weeping Water
- "Republican Caravan" 1950s campaigning
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September/October 2004
- Crete
- Highway 75
- Lost Towns of the Missouri
- Senator Ernie Chambers
- The Staff of Life
- Governor's Mansion Art
- Nebraska Fiction
- Wayne's Musical Barn
- Wagonmaster Russ Leger
- Autumn's Passing Colors
- A City Boy's First Harvest
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July/August 2004
- Kearney
- North Platte Canteen
- Nebraska National Forest
- Battle of Massacre Canyon
- Shubert's $1.00 Church
- Stock Car Racing
- Verdigre
- Hearts United for Animals
- Scottsbluff's Grand House
- Spirits in the Sandhills
- A Yankee Photographer in the Sandhills
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May/June 2004
- Blair
- A Yankee Photographer in the Sandhills
- Show Horses
- Dragonflies
- Norfolk Muralist Karl Reeder
- Sen. George Norris
- Backbone of Barada, pop. 24
- Saving Our Cinema: Scottsbluff's Midwest Theater, director Alexander Payne
- Sandhills Hatter James Marshall
- "From Hell to Here" – Holocaust Survivor Benny Hochman of Sidney
- Spring Bulbs at Lauritzen Gardens
- "A Fishy Tale" – humor by Lori Clinch
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March/April 2004
- Ord
- Brownville
- Kayaking
- Ted Turner's Nebraska Ranches
- Barbershops
- Alliance artist Wilma Schaffert
- Logging Nebraska Prairie
- Hunting Morels
- Horsehoe Pitching
- Winnetoon
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January/February 2004
- Aurora
- Chimney Rock
- Roger and Linda Welsch
- Niobrara Chili Cookoff
- Small Town Name Games
- Wood Family Homestead
- Visions of Nebraska
- City Snow Photo Story
- Raising a Stink book excerpt
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November/December 2003
- Sidney
- Neligh
- Temple of the Laughing Monkey
- Artist Molly Anderson of Minden
- How a West Point Man Became a Hero: Karl Timmermann in World War II
- Elk Ranches
- Exotic Pets at Cozad
- Autumn on Ponca Creek Photo Story
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September/October 2003
- Beatrice
- Six-man Football
- Lincoln's Homemade Ice Cream
- Haying, the Old Way
- Naturalist Paul Johnsgard
- Hunting Sea Monsters in Center
- Niobrara Autumn Photo Story
- Confessions of a Can-Can Girl ? Ogallala's Front Street
- (Not) Lost in Nebraska ? a father and son road trip
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July/August 2003
- Wayne
- Wineries
- Artist Ty Acton
- Nebraska Theatre Caravan
- Rainbow Photo Story
- Sugar Valley ? Scottsbluff's sugar beets
- Earthquakes in Nebraska
- Flags Photo Story
- Omaha's Mt. Vernon Gardens
- Art Chicks in Louisville
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May/June 2003
- North Platte
- Dancing Leaf Earth Lodge
- A Castle on the Plains– Sod House life in the 1950s
- Omaha's El Museo Latino
- Art of the Homestead National Monument
- Snyder's Walking Man: Alex Meyer
- Soccer Dad Photo Story
- Hoegemeyer Hybrids
- Poet Richard Zwick of Seward
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March/April 2003
- York
- Stanton's Uptown Brewery
- Artist Stephen Cornelius Roberts
- In Nebraska with Lewis & Clark
- Maxwell's Teens
- Burrowing Owls
- Kearney's Cranes on Parade
- Uranium mining in Crawford
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January/February 2003
- Minden
- Artist Peter Walkley
- Agate Fossil Beds
- Ku Klux Klan in Nebraska
- Chip Davis and the music of Manheim Steamroller
- Snow Day Photo Story
- The Orphan Train's Last Riders
- The world's refugees come to Lincoln
- Novelist Timothy Schaffert
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November/December 2002
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- Chadron
- Artist Myron Heise
- Old Market is Reborn
- Malcolm X
- Sandhills Cowboys
- Snow Geese Migration at Blair
- Lynch: a Prairie Dog Town
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September/October 2002
- Fairbury
- Artist Herb Mignery
- Elm Creek One-Room School
- Johnny Carson
- Writer Bess Streeter Aldrich
- The Man Who Caught the Weather – fiction by Aldrich
- Omaha's Mexican Consulate
- Valentine's Cowboy Poetry
- Organic Farming in St. Edward
- Sandhills Dog Days
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July/August 2002
- Plattsmouth
- Wildflowers Photo Story
- The Five Droughts of John Leader
- Sandhills Stargazing (Nebraska Star Party)
- Bob Kerrey Vietnam memoir excerpt
- US Strategic Command
- Artist Mary Beckman
- Mulberries
- Robert Louis Stevenson's Nebraska travels
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May/June 2002
- Columbus
- Ponca State Park
- Searching for Ghosts inScottsbluff
- African American Homesteaders: Robert Ball Anderson of Hemingford
- In Search of Jesse James
- Shepherd's Dairy of Anselmo, Neb.
- Omaha Farmer's Market
- Lincoln Artist Anne Burkholder
- "The Nature of Nebraska," Paul Johnsgard book excerpt
- Rescue, Neb., population 1
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March/April 2002
- Valentine
- St. Cecilia's Cathedral in Omaha
- Sandhills Branding Photo Story
- Poet William Kloefkorn
- Nebraska Arboretums
- Artist Roberta Barnes
- Why Do We Love Old Pickups?
- Robert Vivian book excerpt from Cold Snap as Yearning
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January/February 2002
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- Lexington
- Saving Omaha Landmarks
- Tilden's Gift: a farm boy comes home with a library
- Professor Baker's Rage
- William Jennings Bryan
- Cowboy Poet Jack Ostergard
- Artist Rusty Fritz
- Winter Barn Photo Story
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November/December 2001
- Photographer Michael Forsberg
- Fremont
- Willa Cather
- Campbell's Caves
- Lo Sole Mio
- Toadstool Park
- Paddlefish in the Tailwaters
- Artist Lisa Norman
- Our Hunting Heritage
- "Accomplice": fiction of Nebraska Territory
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September/October 2001
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- Nebraska City
- The Placid Platte River
- Red Cloud
- Mullen Fly In
- Genoa Indian School
- Two Men and a Bar
- Reuben and the Royal Zoo
- Threshing Tradition
- Artist Nancy Lee Moran
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July/August 2001
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- Ogallala
- Walthill's Rural Warriors (Center for Rural Affairs)
- Florence Mill
- Elm Creek's Orphans
- How O'Neill Escaped Radio Merger-Mania
- President Ford
- Words from Windfall Farm
- Nebraska Sky photo essay
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May/June 2001
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- Norfolk
- Secluded Wonders
- Chase County Lifeline
- Old Hotels
- Kuhl Restaurant
- The Persistent Frank Morrison
- Artist Sandra Newman
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March/April 2001
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- O'Neill
- Birding Nebraska
- Legends of the Crane
- Tom Allan
- Blues at Lincoln's Zoo Bar
- Spade Ranch
- Big Trees
- Wakefield's Round Barn
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January/February 2001
- Rooted in Tekamah
- Full Circle at White Horse Ranch
- The Enduring Mari Sandoz
- Blizzard of 1888
- A Temple of the Intellect
- Artist Gary Ginther
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November/December 2000
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- Windmills
- Artist Donna Binfield
- Nebraska Movies
- Quack Doctors in Early Omaha
- Henry Doorly Zoo
- McPherson National Cemetery
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September/October 2000
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- Alliance
- Sea of Grass
- Omaha: A Dirty, Wicked Town
- Artist Maxine Yost
- 1851 Indian Treaty
- Autumn on the Niobrara Valley Photo Story
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July/August 2000
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- Lonely Parks
- Civil War History
- Nebraska Farmer as American Hero
- Prairie Plants in City Yards
- Galloping Gothenburg
- Room for Lions & Wolves?
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May/June 2000
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- Seward
- Heritage Highway
- Where the Buffalo Roam
- Touring the Lincoln
- Home on the Range
- Artist Mitty Quigley
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March/April 2000
- Broken Bow
- Monasteries
- Our Famous Trees
- The Omaha Claim Club
- Writer Bob Reilly
- Artist Pat Samuelson
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January/February 2000
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- Ashfall Fossil Beds
- Hastings
- Giving Winter the Boot
- The Antiquarium
- Artist John Lokke
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November/December 1999
- Albion
- Cabela's
- Public Power
- Disaster on the Union Pacific Bridge
- Artist Lois Messinger
- How We Celebrate the Holidays
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September/October 1999
- David City
- Liz Fluehr's Art
- Nebraska's corn heritage
- Nebraska forts
- Swingin' with Preston Love
- Sandhills fall photo essay
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July/August 1999
- Ainsworth
- The Two Wars of Carl Nelson
- Nuclear Debate in Boyd County
- Early Omaha Jokers: the Coffin Club
- Nebraska lakes
- Artist David Dorsey
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May/June 1999
- Crofton artist Jolene Steffen
- Columbus' Pawnee Park
- State Sen. Cap Dierks
- Omaha's blind baseball coach: Mark Wetzel
- Broken Bow photographer Gregg Albracht
- Golf Hotspots
- Oglala Treasure
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March/April 1999
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- Fremont
- Fontenelle Forest
- Nebraska Canoe Safari
- Artist Gene Roncka
- John Neligh
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January/February 1999
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- Sandhill Cranes
- Gibbon
- Joslyn Museum Egypt Exhibit
- Artist Cindy Duff of Grand Island
- Bernie's Hardware in Alliance
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November/December 1998
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- Elgin's St. Boniface Church
- Boys Town
- Platte River
- Holiday Nights
- Lincoln photographer Jean Lewis
- Pioneer Ruth Ann Kenyon
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September/October 1998
- Brownville
- Dr. Harold Edgerton's high-speed photography
- Orsi Bakery
- Niobrara Everglades
- Artist Norma Stevens
- The Great Potato Harvest
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Summer 1998
- Actor Robert Taylor of Beatrice
- Potter-Dix
- White Horse Ranch
- Artist Lorri Meng
- Mysterious Burial of Crazy Horse
- Oglala National Grasslands
- Ord photographer Manny Sich
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Spring 1998
- Fairbury
- Gordie Lord and Nebraska National Forest
- Irish in Nebraska
- Favorite Museums
- Lincoln Photographer Cheryl Richter
- Fly fishing
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Winter 1998
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- Artist Colleen Eubanks
- Grand Island businessman Joyce Hornady
- Danes in Nebraska
- Omaha's Orpheum Theater
- Straw Bale Houses
- Brewster, Neb., pop. 22
- North Platte photographer Virginia Clark
- David City instrument maker David Wiebe
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Fall 1997
- Artist Sandy Meyer
- Songwriter Ann (Rosenblatt) Ronell of Omaha
- Mari Sandoz Legacy
- Scottsbluff photographer Charlotte Ingram
- The Germans from Russia
- Nebraska Entrepreneurs
- Homer's O'Connor House
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Summer 1997
- Artist Katrina Methot
- US Air Force in Nebraska
- Farmers Markets
- Imperial
- Thomas Doane
- Aurora photographer Chris Helzer
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Spring 1997
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- Seneca artist Janice Whitmore
- Cedar Rapids
- Relic Hunter Don Hauf
- Legends of Devil's Nest
- Rainwater Basin
- Photographer DeLoris Knisely
- Lincoln bookbinder
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Premier Issue: Winter 1997
- Artist Debbie Gengler-Copple
- Sculptor June Thompson
- Nebraska Lied Main Street
- Grace and Edith Abbott
- Cowboy Poetry
- Nebraska Czechs
- Bill Janke, photographer
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