Media Resources for 1850 - 1874

Throughout this site, we have a number of video and other multimedia resources that can take you to historical sites or help visualize what are sometimes complex ideas. This page lists all of the media resources for the Settlement Era section. To play these media elements you will need two free player programs, QuickTime and Flash. Below are links to the sites where you can download the players. Clicking these links will open a new browser window — just close the new window to come back here.

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The Story of Beef:
The Great American Desert
Dr. Robert Manley playing a booster who believes "Rainfall follows the plow."

Dr. Robert Munkres on the perils of traveling to Nebraska in a covered wagon train.
Flash animation of how lines were drawn on maps, dividing the land.

How the McCaslin family went from a dug-out to full sod house.
Dr. Robert Manley in front of the two-story Haumont soddy in 1963.

Flash animation of how a windmill works.
The Story of Beef:
Flash Beef Moves to Nebraska

The Story of Beef:
Prologue
The Story of Beef:
Civil War & Texas Beef

The Story of Beef:
The Texas Trail
The Story of Beef:
Last Artifact of the Texas Trail

The Story of Beef:
Cattle Replace Bison

The Story of Beef:
Beef Issue

Click below to access Media Resources from all the eras on nebraskastudies.org.
Pre-
1500		 1500
to
1799		 1800
to
1849		 1850
to
1874		 1875
to
1899		 1900
to
1924		 1925
to
1949		 1950
to
1974		 1975
to
1999		 2000
to
2024