| Did you know that
Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando, William Jennings Bryan, Johnny
Carson, Willa Cather, James Colburn, Dick Cavett, Sandy
Dennis, Crazy Horse, Henry Fonda, Gerald Ford, Harold Lloyd,
Nick Nolte, Standing Bear, Roger Williams and Darryl F.
Zanuck are just a few of the people who once called Nebraska
home. Although Nebraska is an Indian word meaning "broad,
flat water," early white explorers once described this
area as the Great American Desert. Little did they realize
Nebraska would become the breadbasket for the nation and
much of the world. Nebraska is fortunate to have fertile
land and an abundant supply of underground water known as
the Ogallala Aquifer. Today about 23 million acres is
cultivated cropland and 20 million acres is range and
pasture land. Approximately 1,700,000 residents call
Nebraska home. Come see the Agate Fossil Beds, Agate, a
World famous location of fossils of Miocene period mammals,
including bear-dogs. One of three national monuments in the
state. Travel the Oregon Trail to Chimney rock and Morrill
Hall, Lincoln -- Home of Archie, the world's largest fossil
elephant, found near Wellfleet, Neb.; also home of the
world's biggest collection of elephant skeletons and other
outstanding collections. |
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