Their range covers the southeastern quadrant of the United States from the Great Lakes and southern Minnesota east to Pennsylvania and southern Massachusetts, and extending west to southern Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and all but westernmost Texas.

The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River ; most of North Dakota ; most of South Dakota ; northeastern New Mexico ; northern Texas ; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide ; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans ; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

It encompasses New Mexico, most of Colorado, parts of Wyoming, the panhandle of Nebraska, as well as El Paso County and Hudspeth County of Texas.

The rest of the United States is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing " Jersey ", the names of five cities ( Los Angeles ; Washington, D. C .; Las Vegas ; Kansas City ; and Chicago ) and three states ( Texas, Utah, and Nebraska ) scattered among a few rocks for the United States beyond New Jersey.

* January 12 – Blizzards ( see: Schoolhouse Blizzard ) hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.

There have also been reports of glossy black cougars from Kansas, Texas and eastern Nebraska.

They were found in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Michigan and Iowa, as well as Mexico and Canada.

This area covers parts of the U. S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Completed and rigged bombs were found in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Illinois and Iowa.

The evergreen bagworm thrives in the eastern United States as far west as Nebraska, north into New England and bordering the Gulf of Mexico south throughout Texas.

Migrants left farms in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico, but were often generally referred to as " Okies ", " Arkies " or " Texies ".

As of June 2012, 41 states and the District of Columbia have recognized Juneteenth as either a state holiday or state holiday observance ; these are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

It is located in 12 regions across the country: California, Nevada, Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, Louisiana, North Florida, Central Florida, South Florida, Washington, D. C., New York and New England.

In the U. S., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and sizable parts of the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and western and southern Minnesota.

Charter members of the Big 12 included: Baylor University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Iowa State University, University of Kansas, Kansas State University, the University of Missouri, the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University – Stillwater, the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A & M University, and Texas Tech University.

From the conference's formation until the 2010 – 11 season, the Big 12 was split into two divisions for most major sports: the Texas schools plus Oklahoma and Oklahoma State made up the South Division, and the remaining six former Big Eight Conference teams ( Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, and Nebraska ) constituted the North Division.

" After his 2011 firing, Beebe said in a phone interview with The Associated Press that Oklahoma, Nebraska, and even Texas A & M were interested in " developing their own distribution systems " for their sports programs.

The departures of Colorado and Nebraska, combined with reports that Texas, Texas A & M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State were close to accepting invitations to join the Pac-10, made the Big 12's demise seem to be a foregone conclusion.

Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States ( US ), raised primarily in Texas, US, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, US, the area in which he first gained popularity.

* Strong, Douglas H. Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists ( 1971 ; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988 ) ISBN 0-8032-9156-6

1 & 2, University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Thomas C. Durant who was building the cross-Iowa railroad ( the M & M ) was literally banking that the Omaha route would be chosen and began buying up land in Nebraska.

( Reprinted in 1962 by Chicago: University of Chicago Press ; in 1965 by New York: Cooper Square Publishers ; in 1965 by Chicago: University of Chicago Press ; & in 1994 by Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-8610-4 ).

( Reprinted in 1969 by New York: Kraus Reprint Co .; in 1970 by New York ; in 1976 by Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co .; & in 1994 under M. E. Opler, Morris by Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

( A physical connection between Omaha, Nebraska and the statutory Eastern terminus of the Pacific road at Council Bluffs, Iowa located immediately across the Missouri River was also not finally established until the opening of UPRR railroad bridge across the river on March 25, 1873, prior to which transfers were made by ferry operated by the Council Bluffs & Nebraska Ferry Company.

John P. Leavey, Jr. ( Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1980 ).

Peggy Kamuf ( Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1985 ).

John P. Leavey, Jr. & Richard Rand ( Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1986 ).

John P. Leavey, Jr. ( Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989 ).

Ned Lukacher ( Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1991 ).

* 2012: Lindenwood University and the University of Nebraska at Kearney, both members of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association will become associate members in the NSIC in the sport of Women's Swimming & Diving.

* Carolyn Ducey, " Quilt History Timeline, Pre-History – 1800 ", International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

The county is served by the Nebraska Kansas & Colorado Railway.

Brandon Teena is buried in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska, his headstone inscribed with his birth name and the epitaph daughter, sister, & friend.

" PJ " was established by the railroad in 1871 to serve as the western terminus of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, the eastern terminus of the Nebraska Burlington & Missouri River RR, and a station on the Kansas City, Council Bluffs, & Saint Joseph Railroad.

Being at the crossing point of two railroads, the St. Louis, Kansas City & Nebraska Railroad and the Keokuk & Western railway, Glenwood saw rapid early growth.

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, and Pollack's book reviewed in International Security, Vol.

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948 – 91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, ISBN 0-8032-3733-2

* Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, and Pollack's book reviewed in International Security, Vol.

Kent M. Keith was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Nebraska, California, Virginia, Rhode Island, and Hawaii, where he graduated from secondary school.

Written by E A Kral and Jean M Sanders, appearing in " The Crete News " and reproduced with the permission of the publisher and authors on the Nebraska State Education Association website as a public service.

* Adrian M. Smith-U. S. House of Representatives, Nebraska 3rd District.

* Dana X. Bible, college football coach at Texas A & M, Nebraska, and Texas

* Utley, Robert M. ( 1989 ) Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life, University of Nebraska Press.

It was named after Colonel John M. Stotsenburg, a Captain of the Sixth U. S. Cavalry, and a Colonel of the First Nebraska Volunteers who was killed while leading his regiment in action near Quingua, Bulacan, the Philippines on April 23, 1899.

* Pollack, Kenneth, M., Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, University of Nebraska Press, ( 2002 )

Hines served with the regiment in Nebraska and Montana from 1891 to 1898 where he married Harriet Schofield " Rita " Wherry, one of the daughters of Brigadier General William M. Wherry and Alice Grammer.

* Howard M. Baldrige, Congressman from Nebraska

* M. m. polyglottos: generally found in the eastern portion of North America ranging from Nova Scotia to Nebraska, to far south as Texas and Florida.

* M. p. leucopterus ' Western Mockingbird ' ( Vigors, 1839 ): generally found in the western portion of North America ranging from NW Nebraska and Western Texas to the Pacific Coast, and south to Mexico ( the Isthmus of Tehuantepec ), and Socorro Island.

At a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 19, 1928, six of the seven state schools ( excluding Oklahoma A & M ) organized a separate conference.

Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma claimed the MVIAA name but thereafter became known informally to fans and the media as the Big Six Conference, while the smaller schools of Drake, Grinnell, and Washington University joined with Oklahoma A & M, becoming known as the Missouri Valley Conference ( MVC ).

* James, Ronald M. Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past ( University of Nebraska Press ; 2012 ) 176 pages ; historical archaeology

* Bishop William M. Roberts ( 1876-1954 ), oversaw churches in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Iowa, Arkansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin