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Guide Rock (hill)
Guide Rock, whose Pawnee name is ''Pa-hur'' or ''Pahur'', is a hill in south central Nebraska in the United States. In the traditional Pawnee religion, it was one of five dwelling places of spirit animals with miraculous powers. In 1806, separate expeditions led by Facundo Melgares and Zebulon Pike both journeyed to a large Pawnee village nearby; Pike persuaded the inhabitants to lower the recently received flag of Spain and replace it with that of the United States. The hill's English name was given to the nearby village of Guide Rock, Nebraska. Description Guide Rock is located in Webster County, Nebraska. It lies southeast of the town that bears its name, on the south side of the Republican River and just east of Rankin Creek. Descriptions of the landform vary. The United States Geological Survey classifies it as a "pillar", which it defines as a " rtical, standing, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation". A local writer described it as a "vast rocky bluff".Ohmst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webster County, Nebraska
Webster County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 3,411. Its county seat is Red Cloud. The county was formed in 1871, and was named for Daniel Webster. In the Nebraska license plate system, Webster County is represented by the prefix 45 (it had the forty-fifth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922). Geography Webster County lies along the south line of Nebraska. Its south boundary line abuts the north boundary line of the state of Kansas. The terrain of Webster County consists of low rolling hills, sloping to the east. The more planar areas of the county are used for agriculture, mostly under center pivot irrigation. The Republican River flows eastward across the lower part of the county. The county has an area of , of which is land and (0.02%) is water. Major highways * U.S. Highway 136 * U.S. Highway 281 * Nebraska Highway 4 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar River (Nebraska)
Cedar River may refer to: Canada * Cedar River (Ontario), a tributary of the English River United States * Cedar River (Iowa River tributary), in Minnesota and Iowa, a tributary of the Iowa River * Cedar River (Antrim County, Michigan) * Cedar River (Gladwin County, Michigan) * Cedar River (Menominee County, Michigan) * Cedar River (New York), a tributary of the Hudson River * Cedar River (Washington), a tributary of Lake Washington * Cedar River (Willapa Bay), Washington * Cedar Creek (North Dakota), also known as Cedar River See also * Cedar (other) * Cedar Creek (other) Cedar Creek may refer to: In Australia * Cedar Creek (New South Wales), a tributary of the Hunter River catchment, New South Wales * Cedar Creek, New South Wales, a town in the City of Cessnock * Cedar Creek, New South Wales (Tweed), a village in ... * Little Cedar River (other) * Red Cedar River (other) {{place name disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wilkinson
James Wilkinson (March 24, 1757 – December 28, 1825) was an American army officer and politician who was associated with multiple scandals and controversies during his life, including the Burr conspiracy. He served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, but he was twice compelled to resign. He was twice the Senior Officer of the U.S. Army; was appointed to be the first governor in the newly acquired western lands of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, later organized by the United States Congress and the third President, Thomas Jefferson as the Louisiana Territory in 1804–1812, west of the Mississippi River; and commanded two unsuccessful military invasion campaigns in the St. Lawrence River valley theater in Canada during the War of 1812. He died while seeking to serve as an envoy diplomat in Mexico City, the capital of the newly declared independent Mexico. Four decades later in 1854, following extensive archival research in the Royal Spanish ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis And Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select group of U.S. Army and civilian volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark. Clark, along with 30 others, set out from Camp Dubois (Camp Wood), Illinois, on May 14, 1804, met Lewis and ten other members of the group in St. Charles, Missouri, then went up the Missouri River. The expedition crossed the Continental Divide of the Americas near the Lemhi Pass, eventually coming to the Columbia River, and the Pacific Ocean in 1805. The return voyage began on March 23, 1806, at Fort Clatsop, Oregon, ending six months later on September 23 of that year. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition, shortly after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, to explore and detail as much of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe ( ; , literal translation, lit. "Holy Faith") is the capital city, capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Santa Fe County. With over 89,000 residents, Santa Fe is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, fourth-most populous city in the state and the principal city of the Santa Fe metropolitan statistical area, which had 154,823 residents in 2020. Santa Fe is the third-largest city in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Los Alamos, New Mexico, Los Alamos Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Los Alamos combined statistical area, combined statistical area, which had a population of 1,162,523 in 2020. Situated at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the city is at the highest altitude of any U.S. state capital, with an elevation of 6,998 feet (2,133 m). Founded in 1610 as the capital of ', a province of New Spain, Santa Fe is the oldest List of capitals in the United States, state capital in the United States and the earliest E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the main stem, primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. It is the second-longest river in the United States, behind only the Missouri River, Missouri. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's Drainage basin, watershed drains all or parts of 32 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces between the Rocky Mountains, Rocky and Appalachian Mountains, Appalachian mountains. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The main stem is entirely within the United States; the total drainage basin is , of which only about one percent is in Canada. The Mississippi ranks as the world's List of rivers by discharge, tenth-largest river by discharge flow, and the largest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana Territory
The Territory of Louisiana or Louisiana Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805, until June 4, 1812, when it was renamed the Missouri Territory. The territory was formed out of the District of Louisiana, which consisted of the portion of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 33rd parallel (which is now the Arkansas–Louisiana state line). Background The Eighth Congress of the United States on March 26, 1804, passed legislation entitled "An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof," which established the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana as organized incorporated U.S. territories. With regard to the District of Louisiana, this organic act, which went into effect on October 1, 1804, detailed the authority of the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory to provide temporary civil jurisdiction over the expansive region. Establishment O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase () was the acquisition of the Louisiana (New France), territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River#Watershed, Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of now in the Central United States. However, France only controlled a small fraction of this area, most of which was inhabited by Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans; effectively, for the majority of the area, the United States bought the preemptive right to obtain Indian lands by treaty or by conquest, to the exclusion of other colonial powers. The Early modern France, Kingdom of France had controlled the Louisiana territory from 1682 until Louisiana (New Spain), it was ceded to Spanish Empire, Spain in 1762. In 1800, Napoleon, Napoleon Bona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bird Grinnell
George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Originally specializing in zoology, he became a prominent early conservationist and student of Native American life. Grinnell has been recognized for his influence on public opinion and work on legislation to preserve the American bison. Mount Grinnell in Glacier National Park in Montana is named after him. Early life and education Grinnell was born on September 20, 1849, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of George Blake and Helen Lansing Grinnell. The family moved when he was seven to Audubon Park, the section of Washington Heights in Manhattan which was developed from the estate after noted ornithologist John James Audubon's death in 1851. Containing Drs. Diettert & Hampton's notes in preparing Diettert's thesis and subsequent 1992 book ''Grinnell's Glacier: George Bird Grinnell and Glacier National Park'' Grinnell graduated from Yale University w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waconda Reservoir
Waconda Lake, also known as Glen Elder Reservoir, is a reservoir in Mitchell County, Kansas, Mitchell County and Osborne County, Kansas, United States. Built and managed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for flood control and irrigation, it is also used for recreation. Glen Elder State Park is located on its north shore. History Prior to the building of Glen Elder Dam, the present-day site of Waconda Lake was the location of Waconda Spring, a natural flowing artesian well, from which the lake was named. To capitalize on it, in 1904 the Cawker City Mineral Company opened a resort on the site of the spring. In 1907, G.F. Abraham of Mankato, Kansas converted the resort into a health spa. Part of the Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944, Glen Elder Dam was one of six units in the Smoky Hill River basin specified as necessary for flood control and irrigation. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation began purchasing rights-of-way in June 1963 and start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waconda Spring
Waconda Spring, or Great Spirit Spring, was a natural artesian aquifer, artesian spring located in Mitchell County, Kansas, Mitchell County, near the communities of Glen Elder, Kansas, Glen Elder and Cawker City, Kansas, Cawker City in the U.S. state of Kansas. The sacred site for Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes of the Great Plains was, for a time, the site of a health spa for American settlers. With the completion of the Glen Elder Dam in 1968, the mineral spring disappeared beneath the waters of Waconda Reservoir. Description Waconda Spring was situated on the bank of the Solomon River, below the North and South Forks of the river. The water flowing from the spring had deposited a large cone of travertine around it.Buchanan, Rex, Robert Sawin, and Wayne Lebsack (2000)."Water of the Most Excellent Kind: Historic Springs in Kansas".''Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains''. pp. 128-41. Retrieved 2010-09-18. In 1866, surveyor David E. Ballard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaw (tribe)
The Kaw Nation (or Kanza or Kansa) is a Federally recognized tribe, federally recognized Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. The Kaw people historically lived in the central Midwestern United States. They have also been called the "People of the South Wind","Constitution of the Kaw Nation." ''Kaw Nation.'' 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2012. "People of Water", ''Kansa'', ''Kaza'', ''Konza'', ''Conza'', ''Quans'', ''Kosa'', and ''Kasa''. Their tribal language is Kansa language, Kansa, classified as a Siouan languages, Siouan language. The state of Kansas was named for this tribe. The name of Topeka, capital city of Kansas, is said to be the Kaw word meaning 'a good place to grow potatoes'. The Kaw are closely related to the Osage Nation, with whom members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
