• The Pawnee at Fort Kearny – Share the History, Share the Harvest

    Fort Kearny State Historical Park and State Recreation Area 1020 V Road, Kearney, NE, United States

    A history-making return of the Pawnee to Fort Kearny will be celebrated at a "Share the History, Share the Harvest" event at Fort Kearny State Historical Park and the nearby State Recreation Area. The focus will be a long-overdue recognition of the Pawnee Scouts' U.S. military service at Fort Kearny from 1864-1871. Overall, an estimated […]

  • Vaquero: The Genesis of the Texas Cowboy

    Trails and Rails Museum 710 W. 11th St., Kearney, NE, United States

    “Vaquero” was created by the Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas. It features sixty-two digital carbon prints with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle. […]

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