(Approximately half of these illustrations are from original photographs taken by the author. The E. G. Clements collection and S. D. Butcher collection of Nebraska photographs are in the author's collection of Illustrated Nebraska.)

1. George Catlin Painting an Indian Chief
2. The First Printed Picture of a Buffalo
3. A Quivira Grass Hut
   (Courtesy R. B. Brower, St. Cloud, Minn.)
4. Quivira Tomahawks
5. A Spanish Stirrup Found in Nebraska
6. La Hontan's Map of the Nebraska Region
7. A Spanish Sword and a Basket Hilted Cavalry Saber Found in Nebraska
8. The Platte River
9. Blackbird Hill
   (From Thwaites's "Early Western Travels." Arthur H. Clark, Co., Cleveland, Ohio.)
   
10. Pictured Rocks near Blackbird Hill
11. Lewis and Clark
12. The Lewis and Clark Monument at Fort Calhoun, Nebraska
13. The Clark Monument at St. Louis
14. Blackfoot Warriors
    (From Thwaites's "Early Western Travels." Arthur H. Clark, Co., Cleveland, Ohio.)
    
15. Manuel Lisa
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
16. British Flag on Nebraska Rocks, 1907
17. "Aunt Manuel," First Known White Woman in Nebraska
18. Rosalie Lisa Ely
19. Monument to the Astorians at Bellevue, Nebraska
20. Council with Otoes by Major Long's Expedition
    (From Thwaites's "Early Western Travels." Arthur H. Clark, Co., Cleveland, Ohio.)
    
21. Map of the Great American Desert as made by Major Long, 1820
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
22. Plan of Fort Atkinson, Nebraska, 1819-1827
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
23. Flint Lock and Cannon Ball from Fort Atkinson
24. A Fort Atkinson Gravestone
25. Bellevue in 1833
    (From Thwaites's "Early Western Travels." Arthur H. Clark, Co., Cleveland, Ohio.)
    
26. Bellevue Woods as Seen To-day. Top of Child's Point, Looking East
27. The Steamer Yellowstone
    (From Thwaites's "Early Western Travels." Arthur H. Clark, Co., Cleveland, Ohio.)
    
28. Missouri, Oto and Puncah Indians, 1833
    (From Thwaites's "Early Western Travels." Arthur H. Clark, Co., Cleveland, Ohio.)
    
29. Scott's Bluff
30. The Buildings of an Earth Lodge
31. Old Otoe Mission
32. Father De Smet
    (From Chittenden & Richardson's "Life, Letters & Travels of Father De Smet."
    Francis P. Harper, N. Y.)
    
33. Indian Welcome to Father De Smet
    (From Chittenden & Richardson's "Life, Letters & Travels of Father De Smet."
    Francis P. Harper, N. Y.)
    
34. John C. Fremont
35. Map of Overland Trails and Historical Places in Nebraska
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
36. Old Fort Hall on the Oregon Trail
37. Emigrant Train Crossing the Plains
38. Ezra Meeker and his Oregon Trail Wagon
39. Oregon Trail Monument at Kearney
40. Stone Marking Oregon Trail in Nebraska
41. Lone Tree Monument
42. Logan Fontenelle
43. Site of Fontenelle's Grave near Bellevue
44. Act Abolishing Slavery in Nebraska
    (Photo from original in Statehouse.)
    
45. Map Showing First Plan for Nebraska Survey, 1854
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
46. Nebraska-Kansas Monument, Starting Point of Nebraska Surveys
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
47. Map Showing Progress of Surveys in Eastern Nebraska, 1856
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
48. Robert Harvey, an Early Surveyor, and Outfit
49. Daniel Freeman, First Homesteader in United States
50. The First Homestead
51. Pawnee Earth Lodge
52. Ancient Pawnee Pottery
53. Court House Rock and Jail Rock
54. Major Frank North
55. Surviving Pawnee Scouts, 1911
56. Rock Bluffs House where Election Was Held in 1866
57. Lieutenant Geo. A. Forsyth
58. Arickaree or Beecher Island Battlefield, 1910
59. Union Pacific Railroad Train Crossing Missouri River at Omaha, 1866
60. Stage Coach
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
61. An Early Prairie Fire
    (From Catlin.)
    
62. Red Cloud
63. Spotted Tail
64. Ruins of Old Red Cloud Agency, 1911
65. Ft. Robinson, Sioux County, Nebraska.
    Site of Red Cloud Agency and Scene of Important Incidents in Sioux Indian War
66. Red Cloud's Tent at Pine Ridge, 1904
67. Pioneer Seeking Shelter
68. Old Fort Kearney Block House at Nebraska City
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
69. Old Earthworks at Fort Kearney, 1907
70. Fallen Cottonwood Tree on Site of Headquarters,
    1st Nebraska Regiment at Ft. Kearney, 1864, as Seen in 1907
71. Fort Laramie in 1848
72. Ponca Land as Painted for Maximilian, 1833
    (From Thwaites's "Early Western Travels." Arthur H. Clark, Co., Cleveland, Ohio.)
    
73. Standing Bear and Family in 1904
74. Bright Eyes (Instha Theamba) Mrs. T. H. Tibbles
75. Herd Law Act of 1870
    (Photo from original in Statehouse.)
    
76. Two Crows (Cahae Numba)
77. Wajepa
78. In Grasshopper Days
79. The Sand Hills
80. A Typical Frontier Well and House
81. Fort McPherson Military Cemetery
82. Nebraska Territorial Seal
83. Nebraska State Seal
84. The Goldenrod, Nebraska's Flower
85. First Arbor Day Proclamation
    (Photo from original in Statehouse.)
    
86. J. Sterling Morton and Robert W. Furnas
87. A Nebraska Tree
88. Ancient Nebraska Tools
    (Courtesy R. F. Gilder, Omaha, Nebraska.)
    
89. Ancient Nebraska House
    (Courtesy R. F. Gilder, Omaha, Nebraska.)
    
90. Spanish, French and English Flags
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
91. Map Showing Grants by the English King and their Relation to Nebraska
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
92. American Flag
93. Map Showing Land Ceded by Indian Tribes in Nebraska
    (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
    
94. Map Showing Country Known to the Omaha
95. The Buffalo Hunt
    (From Thwaites's "Early Western Travels." Arthur H. Clark, Co., Cleveland, Ohio.)
    
96. Omaha Mission Building in Thurston County, Built 1856
97. An Omaha Indian Village in 1860
98. Stephen A. Douglas
99. Nebraska-Kansas Bill
    (From original at Washington, D. C..)
    
100. Map of Nebraska Territory, 1854
     (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
     
101. Governor Francis Burt
102. Nebraska Ferry Across Elkhorn River, 1854
103. Acting Governor Thomas B. Cuming
104. First Territorial Capital, 1855
105. First Claim Cabin in Nebraska
106. Peta Lesharu -- Chief of the Pawnee Nation
107. Mormons Setting out from Florence, Nebraska, to Cross the Plains
108. First County Map of Nebraska, 1854
     (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
     
109. County Map of Nebraska in 1856
     (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
     
110. Nebraska Wildcat Currency
111. Second Territorial Capitol, Afterward Omaha High School
112. Governor Wm. A. Richardson
113. Governor Samuel W. Black
114. Pawnee Council Rock
115. Governor Alvin Saunders
116. Outline Map of Nebraska in 1863
     (Drawing by Miss Martha Turner.)
     
117. First State Capitol at Lincoln, 1869
118. The Three Founders of Lincoln
119. First Log House in Lincoln
120. A Pioneer Dugout
121. Governor David Butler
122. Governor William H. James
123. Governor Robert W. Furnas
124. Governor Silas W. Garber
125. Constitution of 1875 with Signatures
     (Photo from original in Statehouse.)
     
126. Governor Albinus Nance
127. Governor James W. Dawes
128. A Western Cattle Range
129. A Frontier Nebraska Granger
130. Governor John M. Thayer
131. Nebraska State Capitol in 1889
132. A Farmers' Alliance Convention
133. Congressman O. M. Kem of Custer County at Home
     (First Congressman in United States Elected From A Sod House)
134. Governor James E. Boyd
135. Governor Lorenzo Crounse
136. Governor Silas A. Holcomb
137. William Jennings Bryan in 1896
138. Governor William A. Poynter
139. Governor Chas. H. Dietrich
140. Governor Ezra P. Savage
141. Governor John H. Mickey
142. A Nebraska Corn Crop
143. Threshing Winter Wheat
144. In Line for a Homestead
145. Governor George L. Sheldon
146. Governor A. C. Shallenberger
147. Governor Chester H. Aldrich
148. Governor John H. Morehead
149. Map of Nebraska, 1911
150. Monument to Abraham Lincoln
     on State House Grounds, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1912
     (Courtesy of Roy Hindmarsh, Lincoln, Nebraska.)