Mad Queen of the Prairies: The Frenzied First Years of the Nebraska Territory

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How do you establish a territory? Probably not the Nebraska way, where the seat of government shifted from town to town, where governors were changing every year – sometimes every few months – and where the banks printed their own money. Yet Nebraska was where an Indian chief was once governor and where women very nearly won the vote for the first time. Barnes shares the rarely seen images and seldom-heard stories of the unconventional first years of the Nebraska Territory, a place newspapers called the “Queen of the Prairies.”