History and stories of Nebraska . First State Capitol at Lincoln, 1869.(From photograph collection of A. E. Sheldon.) the legislature had been opposedThe North Platte members who wished to keep the capitalat Omaha moved to make the name Lincoln, thinking thatthe Otoe county legislators would refuse to vote for acapital so named. But the ruse failed; their votes werecast for the bill and Lincoln became the name of ourcapital, instead of Douglas as was suggested in the removalbill of 1857. Three men, Governor David Butler, Secretary ThomasP. Kennard and Auditor John J. Gillespie, were appointedt
History and stories of Nebraska . First State Capitol at Lincoln, 1869.(From photograph collection of A. E. Sheldon.) the legislature had been opposedThe North Platte members who wished to keep the capitalat Omaha moved to make the name Lincoln, thinking thatthe Otoe county legislators would refuse to vote for acapital so named. But the ruse failed; their votes werecast for the bill and Lincoln became the name of ourcapital, instead of Douglas as was suggested in the removalbill of 1857. Three men, Governor David Butler, Secretary ThomasP. Kennard and Auditor John J. Gillespie, were appointedto locate the new capital, which was to be at some point 260 NEBRASKA AS A STATE 261. DAVID BUTLEB T. JOHN J. GILLESPIE The Thbee Founders op Lincoln. ? {Cour~iesy of Nebraska State Journal.) within the counties of Saunders, Butler, Seward and Lancaster. On July 29, 1867, they selected the present site be^tween Salt and Antelopecreeks, which was thenopen prairie with onlytwo or three log Great Imtmgra-tion.— When Nebraskabecame a state, the warbetween the North andSouth was over, the hos-tile Indians had been de-feated along the frontierand thousands of immi-grants poured west insearch of free homes. They came in all possible ways, someup the Missouri River in steamboats, some on the railroadsacross Iowa, but more came in covered wagons, or prairieschooners as they were called, drawn by horses, mules oroxen. In these came the pioneers with their children; oftenwith a box of chickens tied on behind, while a few cattle andthe family dog brought up the rear. All the roads leading into and across Nebras-ka were white with theseland ships, and soon
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