Nebraska Prairie

[eagle77]

Here is a series of pics of a search area that is allegedly where the Oregon Trail pioneers camped.
Who says there is nothing in Nebraska... the prairies are always relaxing.
The left pic starts out looking west southwest and the right pic is viewing north.
The search area is only 1/2 mile by 1/4 mile.

 

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[fossis]

Intresting post, I have not been to 'Nebraska', it's on my to go to list someday.
The explorer 'Bonneville' helped map part of the Oregon trail, later Fremont claimed the honor, Bonneville discovered many areas of the west, (Bonneville salt flats) was named for him, as well as 'Bonneville dam', & others.
He was an early soldier, explorer, eventually buying land in the city of Ft. Smith AR.
It is said a young officer by the name of Robert E Lee dragged a wounded Bonneville from harms way in the Florida indian wars.

Fossis.............

 

[aa battery]

Thanks for the pic my grandparents came from Nebraska.They moved to Las Vegas to work on Boulder (Hoover) Dam. aa

 

[narragansett]

Great pics!

 

[Burdie]

Sometimes you have to stop and take a close look to see what the prairie has to offer. Did you get to check any of the site out yet? The Pioneers realized on the way that they could not take every thing they put in the wagons and would leave items behind. Hope you find some good artifacts. HH
Burdie

 

[eagle77]

Intresting post, I have not been to 'Nebraska', it's on my to go to list someday.
The explorer 'Bonneville' helped map part of the Oregon trail, later Fremont claimed the honor, Bonneville discovered many areas of the west, (Bonneville salt flats) was named for him, as well as 'Bonneville dam', & others.
He was an early soldier, explorer, eventually buying land in the city of Ft. Smith AR.
It is said a young officer by the name of Robert E Lee dragged a wounded Bonneville from harms way in the Florida indian wars.

Fossis.............

I found a digital map online of 'Fremont's" expedition, they followed the north side Blue River in Nebraska. That is another project down the road .

 

[eagle77]

Sometimes you have to stop and take a close look to see what the prairie has to offer. Did you get to check any of the site out yet? The Pioneers realized on the way that they could not take every thing they put in the wagons and would leave items behind. Hope you find some good artifacts. HH
Burdie

I random hit the area. All I found was mostly post 1940's iron & barb wire. I disagree with the locals on it's location. The dry creek bed to the hill edges is not big enough to accommodate 10 - 20 wagons per day INMHO. In the far right photo is a small embankment, they claim that is where it is at, however it is far too steep and narrow. I can't even use a 4x4 to drive in that spot.

There is a spot about 1/2 mile to the south that is a promising location. It has gradual slopes and is wider to easily accommodate the traffic that the trail claimed to support. So far, I have located 4 potential spots, 2 of which I have permission to hunt. I am trying to track down the owner of the others.

There are 2 other large campsites within 25 miles. I found diary references to one and was able to locate it very easily, a church sits on the site now. I was told that positively no way could I hunt the spot .

 

[Burdie]

Blue river. I took a history course in college that an Instructor read from a diary about the oregon trail. A little girl describes three men trying to land a catfish that was longer than any of the three men on the Blue river. I doubt you could find fish that size on the Blue river now. I don't remember mush about that class but I never forgot the story.
Burdie

 

[eagle77]

Don't know about the Blue around here, all I ever see is around the 7 pound range.

I had an old timer tell me that along the Republican River there are still big cats.
The Platte dries up in the summer.
The Niobrara and Dismal Rivers usually run year round.

But from what the old timers claimed it is possible to find big cats back then. I recall seeing an old photograph
of a bunch of 20 pounders (?) on a stringer around the 1930's era that was caught on the Blue river.

 

[bedpanmoneyman]

Thanks for the picture eagle. It brought back memories of when I took the family out west (one of many times) and 20 years ago we followed the Oregon Trail through Nebraska and Wyoming.

BPMM

 

[steve71]

i went to cozad a couple days before.any creeks in your area look for them arrowheads.

 

[eagle77]

There's places to arrowhead hunt, but they are closely guarded secrets. Most of the area is farmground. But if one knows that area and connections, one can always find a few places.

 

[Rob in KS]

Looks like a good place for a group hunt.....hint, hint

 

[Timberwolf]

Hey Eagle,

I have been to Fremont several times. Nebraska is probably a little too cold for my liking in the winter, but it's really nice in the summer

Timberwolf

 

[Buck]

i used to live in western nebr about 20 years back then moved to az. all of my family is still there but it is too COLD back there in the winter there of lot of history in Nebr. Did enjoy the Photos got more? Buck

 

[steve71]

Hey Eagle,

I have been to Fremont several times. Nebraska is probably a little too cold for my liking in the winter, but it's really nice in the summer

Timberwolf

OKLA, thats just as cold,i like it here with no snow and hardly ever a freeze.

 

[Timberwolf]

Hey Eagle,

I have been to Fremont several times. Nebraska is probably a little too cold for my liking in the winter, but it's really nice in the summer

Timberwolf

OKLA, thats just as cold,i like it here with no snow and hardly ever a freeze.

Hi Steve,

Are you in southern Texas?
Seems like the climate would be pretty good down there.

TW

 

[eagle77]

It's only about 3-4 months of 'real' cold here. Monday was probably my last day to hunt and it was only about 15 minutes worth. I noticed the ground temp had really dropped since the prior week.

As far as more pics. I'll work on that. Around Xmas I'll be spending Christmas at mom's in the north central part of the state. The prairie is even more beautiful up there in the Sandhills. Now talk about cold...up there it's cold. But the old wood stove cranks out some heat