. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . gnarly History of THE PIONEER PERIOD. [HERE are men and women living in Omaha to-day who remember the found-ing of the city as if it were yesterday. It was only thirty-three years agothat the town site was platted and the first building erected. changes have been wrought within that brief period ! A busy,thriving and progressive city
. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . gnarly History of THE PIONEER PERIOD. [HERE are men and women living in Omaha to-day who remember the found-ing of the city as if it were yesterday. It was only thirty-three years agothat the town site was platted and the first building erected. changes have been wrought within that brief period ! A busy,thriving and progressive city of a hundred thousand people now standsupon the site where but a single cabin could be seen in the summer of Territory of Nebraska, organized in that year, has become a great common-wealth— one of the most flourishing States in the Union, with a population offully one million. The surviving pioneers must indeed look back with wonderat the transformations which they have witnessed, and it must afford them pleasureto recall to mind their struggles in the early years of Omahas history. Thecitys growth has certainly far exceeded the expectations of the most is safe to say that not one of the pioneers of 1S54-55 expected to live to seeOmah
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