Tag: Koshkonong Prairie

• Notes from the heartland (Part 4: Nebraska)

  

  Starting out from Fort Worth yesterday, my canine companion and I traced the Chisholm Trail up to where it peters out near Salina, Kansas. From there we headed due north on a lonely stretch of US 81 into the endless plains of southern Nebraska. Between the Platte and Elkhorn rivers, the terrain changes to gently…

  Jesse Rude

  November 10, 2025

  Family history

  Chisholm Trail, Cuming County Nebraska, Dane County Wisconsin, Deerfield, dissenters, grasshoppers, Hauge, Haugean Lutherans, Johnson, Koshkonong Prairie, locusts, Methodism, Nebraska, Norwegian Americans, Reiner, Smith, Willerup, Wisner