C is for Cornhusker
C is for Cornhusker

Author: Rajean Luebs Shepherd

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1585367001

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Arbor Day, Boys Town, and Kool-Aid® are just a few of the marks the Great Plains state of Nebraska has made on American culture. From the state's eastern border along the Missouri River, where Lewis and Clark embarked on the Corps of Discovery expedition, to the towering geologic landmarks of the west, chronicled in pioneers' journals, there are treasures to explore on each page of C is for Cornhusker: A Nebraska Alphabet.Rajean Luebs Shepherd was raised in Michigan and has a degree in elementary education from Central Michigan University. After graduating, she traveled the world for ten years with the international performing group Up With People. A substitute teacher, Rajean enjoys sharing her favorite children's books with her students. She lives with her family in North Platte, Nebraska. With over twenty years in commercial illustration, Sandy Appleoff's work has appeared in a range of venues from corporate advertising, to magazines to children's books to large-scale installation murals. She has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Colorado Mountain College in Aspen. Currently she is teaching and working on an MFA in stage and costume design at the University of Kansas. Sandy lives on a farm in Falls City, Nebraska.

Nebraska Cornhusker Football
Nebraska Cornhusker Football

Author: Mark Fricke

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738534374

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When Matt Davison made a diving catch on the famous "flea-flicker" play against Missouri in 1997, securing Nebraska's perfect season, the Husker faithful were in football nirvana. And that memorable play was preceded by over a century of Nebraska Football greatness. The team was winning conference championships back in the 1890s, and was an established national powerhouse by the time they joined the Big Eight (later Big Twelve) in 1928. Even the mediocre years brought excitement, such as the stunning 25-21 upset of the "unbeatable" Sooners in 1959. Five National Championships (1970, '71, '94, '95, and '97) under the coaching of Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne, when the Huskers won at least 9 games per season for over 30 straight years, is an accomplishment of which most collegiate football programs can only dream.

Nebraska: The Cornhusker State
Nebraska: The Cornhusker State

Author: Jill Foran

Publisher: Weigl Publishers

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1489648984

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Discover America explores each state, district, and territory in the United States of America. From Alabama to Wyoming, this series features vivid images, informative charts, and detailed maps to guide readers through their nation. Each book explores geography, history, culture, and economics to illustrate the diversity of this unique country.

Nebraska Cornhuskers
Nebraska Cornhuskers

Author: Mike Babcock

Publisher: Insiders' Guide

Published: 2004-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780762734290

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Relive Classic Moments in Cornhuskers History! Thrilling victories, crushing defeats, comical mishaps, and colorful coaches, players, and fans--these are the legendary moments and larger-than-life personalities that have made the Nebraska Cornhuskers a gridiron favorite. In Stadium Stories: Nebraska Cornhuskers, veteran journalist Mike Babcock shares his favorite memories of this beloved team. Together you'll relive the highs and lows and become reacquainted with some of the team's all-time greatest heroes and legends including: Hall of Fame coaches Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne "Trainwreck" Tom Novak, the scariest linebacker on the team "The Game of the Century" that made football history

Nebraska during the New Deal
Nebraska during the New Deal

Author: Marilyn Irvin Holt

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2019-12-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1496215664

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As a New Deal program, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) aimed to put unemployed writers, teachers, and librarians to work. The contributors were to collect information, write essays, conduct interviews, and edit material with the goal of producing guidebooks in each of the then forty-eight states and U.S. territories. Project administrators hoped that these guides, known as the American Guide Series, would promote a national appreciation for America's history, culture, and diversity and preserve democracy at a time when militarism was on the rise and parts of the world were dominated by fascism. Marilyn Irvin Holt focuses on the Nebraska project, which was one of the most prolific branches of the national program. Best remembered for its state guide and series of folklore and pioneer pamphlets, the project also produced town guides, published a volume on African Americans in Nebraska, and created an ethnic study of Italians in Omaha. In Nebraska during the New Deal Holt examines Nebraska’s contribution to the project, both in terms of its place within the national FWP as well as its operation in comparison to other state projects.

Nebraska's Bucks and Bulls
Nebraska's Bucks and Bulls

Author: Joel W. Helmer

Publisher: Bison Books

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1496212819

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Eclipsing Memorial Stadium on a Husker football game day, deer season is arguably the largest single sporting event of the year in Nebraska, with more than one hundred thousand hunters going afield with the hopes of tagging a trophy buck or bull. Nebraska’s Bucks and Bulls tells the stories and shares the photographs of the greatest whitetail, mule deer, and elk shot in Nebraska. Collected through firsthand interviews with the hunters, these personal hunting stories span the decades from the mid-1940s through the 2010s. Each story shares the excitement and adventure of the hunt while weaving in Nebraska history, ecology, and geography. Photographs of the trophy animals showcase not only the quality and variety of big-game hunting in Nebraska but also the changes in hunting clothes, gear, guns, and vehicles through the state’s history. Recounted by Joel W. Helmer, an avid hunter and official measurer for the Boone and Crockett Club, which created the scoring system for measuring North American big-game animals, each chapter tells the story of a buck or bull certified through official state or national records books. Nebraska’s Bucks and Bulls has finally gathered the state’s greatest hunting tales in one place.

Diary of a Husker
Diary of a Husker

Author: David Kolowski

Publisher: David Kolowski

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0979593107

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Diary of a Husker is the actual diary of David Kolowski, a walk-on offensive lineman for the University of Nebraska from 1998-2002 (the Frank Solich years).