Nebraska History Publications April 1 1918 PDF Download

Excerpt from Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days, Vol. 1: February, 1918 This village scene was photographed by a motion picture camera, and by fully a dozen kodaks. About seven hundred spectators watched the performance, many of them coming from an adjoining county. The next day the battle scene was enacted seven miles up the valley from Burwell. So keen was the interest that many young folks walked the whole distance from town to see it. Fully five hun dred people were on the ground, some coming a distance of thirty miles. There were fourteen automobile loads from ord, which is over twenty miles away. The play was put on, in a very creditable manner showing the settler-soldiers in their search for the hostiles, the council of war, the ambush arranged by the Indians, the surprise attack, and the running fight in which footmen and horsemen mingled. Toward eve ning the spectators were back at Burwell and went out to one of the early log cabins where the arrival of settlers fresh from the battle field was, staged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.