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Original wooden road marker for Fort Kearney Crossing. The dates on the front are 1848, 1871. The marker was installed in 1910 and found years later. The dates on the front mark when the trail to Fort Kearney crossed the Platte River from 1848-1871…

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Black and white postcard of the mile-long Platte River bridge near Kearney, Nebraska. There is a man on a horse on the bridge. Photograph taken by Solomon D. Butcher. It is addressed to Mrs. P.A. Graham of Buchtel, Ohio.

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Black and white photograph of the Platte River Bridge near Elm Creek, Nebraska.

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Remains of a buffalo found near the Platte River in the 1930s by Merwyn Henderson. One is a tool (hoe or bone scraper, possibly) made from a buffalo shoulder bone, found near Fort Kearney and possibly originally from the Pawnee. The second is two…

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Two mammoth teeth found by Merwyn Henderson near the Platte River in a gravel pit south of Kearney, Nebraska.
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