Westward Through Nebraska: [Title:] The geography of the Oregon Trail in Nebraska

Westward Through Nebraska

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LIST OF FIGURES

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1.	Mr. Handershot, standing in the foundation of an old ranch house, on the Oregon Trail northwest of Hebron	72
2.	Giant cottonwood tree on the Trail northwest of Hebron	73
3.	Ruts of Oregon Trail made as wagons climbed out of the draw in which the cottonwood grows	74
4.	Near the Narrows, northwest of Oak. Tracks plainly visible	79
5.	At the Narrows, where the Trail dropped to the first bottom	79
6.	Projecting spur of upland at the Narrows	80
7.	"Coast of the Nebraska", or Platte River, Northwest of Kenesaw	95
8.	The lone grave, northwest of Kenesaw	95
9.	Oregon Trail Monument on site of old Fort Kearney	105
10.	Rough broken land near beginning of descent into Ash Hollow	143
11.	Bluffs facing Ash Hollow	143
12.	At the top of Windlass Hill	144
13.	Windlass Hill	144
14.	Mitchell Pass	160
15.	Tracks of the Oregon Trail still visible in Mitchell Pass	161

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