As more settlers filled the Nebraska prairie, Jansen shifted his sheep operation to feeding up to 30,000 western sheep in feedlots.

In 1871, a committee of Swedes came from Illinois to determine whether the Nebraska prairie was suitable for Swedish settlement and farming.

Did it not matter to him that her family had been lost to her this night, that they could be anywhere on the storm-torn Nebraska prairie?

He gave Niobrara City respect, a sense of purpose, a place of prominence on the Nebraska prairie.

Wild grasses, so bountiful on the Nebraska prairie, swayed gently in the breeze.

When the last penny of the last dollar was three days spent, he was adrift on a Nebraska prairie.

Is he carrying a burden--perhaps the story of the Nebraska prairie and the pioneer woman who symbolizes it?

The homes could withstand the high winds of the Nebraska prairie, and they were quiet as well.

The first settlers on the Nebraska prairies found few trees there, necessitating a search for locally available construction materials.

On the Nebraska prairie, Canute takes to drinking to forget his boredom after spending the first forty years of his life in Sweden.