Every Lake
Nebraska
The Platte River runs the whole width — trail, railroad and interstate all followed it.
Nebraska in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Nebraska.
About Nebraska
Nebraska is a rectangle with a panhandle and one wandering edge: the Missouri River curves along the entire eastern border. The Platte crosses the state from the panhandle to the Missouri in a broad, shallow, braided channel that early travelers called a mile wide and an inch deep, and everything followed it. North of the Platte the Sandhills spread over nearly twenty thousand square miles of grass-covered dunes, the largest sand dune field in the Western Hemisphere and almost entirely unplowed. The land climbs west to the pine ridges and the buttes. Ninety-three counties.
Nebraska entered on March 1, 1867 as the 37th state, two years after the Civil War, with the Union Pacific already building west along the Platte. The capital moved from Omaha to the village of Lancaster, renamed Lincoln, in 1867. The valley on the board is one of the most traveled routes in American history: the Oregon, Mormon and California trails, then the transcontinental railroad, then the Lincoln Highway and now I-80, all in the same corridor past Chimney Rock and Scotts Bluff.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 3 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
