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Title: Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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icho-las, was used as a hotel, a store, or anything elsewhich the public demanded. In July of the same year another house was built—this one being of pine flooring. It was on the presentsite of Creighton College. Here, a few weeks after itserection, the first native Omaha boy first saw the light,and from this same house, a few days later, an Omahacitizen first passed out to that mysterious country From whence no traveller returns. The third house was called ^ Big 6. Its owneropened A general assortment of merchandise suitablefor time and place,^ and ^ Big 6 soon became aplace of note. House No. 4 was opened by a house warming,which was attended even by settlers from the adjacentState of Illinois. In the same year, that of 1854, the so-called OldState House was built by the Ferry Company to ac-commodate the first territorial legislature. It was notan architectural beauty, and consequently, in 1857, itgave place to a large, brick Capitol. In this, to Omaha, memorable year of 1854, the
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A HALT AT OMAHA. 451 first doctor, the first lawyer and the first ministersettled in her boundaries, also the first steam mill be-gan running. January 15, 1855, the large frame Douglas Housewas opened by a grand ball. It did an immense busi-ness for many years, and became notedly the head-quarters for politicians and speculators. The first territorial legislature convened January16, 1855, and remained in session until March seven-teenth of the same year. Where that legislature shouldmeet became a question of vital importance to a numberof Nebraska towns. The matter was hotly contestedbut the metropolis won the prize, acting GovernorCummings designating Omaha as the favored spot. Traffic by steamboat did much to develop the ^GateCity. Sometimes boats arrived seven or eight times aweek, bringing new inhabitants, timber, machinery,provisions, furniture, and piling their cargo—humanor inanimate—out upon the since washed away levees,to be taken care of as best the embryo city could. Th

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