Tag: Nebraska

• Notes from the heartland (Part 5: Home)

  

  I am home now after my road trip, a road trip long enough to permit some reflection. If you’ve read my previous posts, you won’t be surprised that I’ve been reflecting on our place in history. We Americans are living in a challenging time right now in terms of historical storytelling. Challenging but not unprecedented.…

  Jesse Rude

  November 11, 2025

  Miscellaneous

  Cherokee, Dakota, Dakota War, history, Ho-Chunk, identity, indigenous history, Iowa, Mankato, Minnesota, Minnesota history, Muscogee, musing, Native America, Nebraska, Oklahoma, settler colonialism, The U.S. Civil War, Trail of Tears, U.S. history, Winnebago, Wisconsin history

• 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