Following the Great Platte River Road – Part 2
I’m really enjoying this RV trip following the Oregon Trail in Nebraska. I’m seeing some wonderful scenic landscapes and visiting great historical sites. But doing this trip from a historical perspective gives it much more context. When I see major...
Following the Great Platte River Road – Part 1
One of the key objectives for the pioneers (and for me on this trip), was to get to the Platte River in eastern Nebraska. The Platte runs eastward out of the Rockies across the flat plains of Nebraska. The Platte River basin is mostly flat and would lead them all...
A Detour to the Homestead National Monument
From Marysville, the Oregon Trail crossed into Nebraska and headed northwest following the Little Blue River towards Fort Kearney. Today, there is no set of roads that closely follows the trail. Much of this land is now being cultivated in large patch work fields of...
Exploring the Sandhills of Nebraska
I left the Black Hills and proceeded south to the western panhandle and Sandhills of Nebraska. Before I left South Dakota, I stopped in Hot Springs to see the Mammoth Site. In 1980’s, a developer who was putting in a housing project unearthed some large bones. He...About J. Dawg
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