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The Pine Ridge is an escarpment between the Niobrara River and the White River in far northwestern Nebraska (a small section extends into South Dakota). The high tableland between the rivers has been eroded into a region of forested buttes , ridges and canyons .
The trails of the Indian skirted the rivers and offered for trader and explorer passageway to the West, especially to the towns of the Cherokees in the southern Alleghanies or Unakas; but the waterways and the roads over which the hogsheads of tobacco were rolled (hence called "rolling roads") sufficed for the needs of the thin fringes of ...
North Platte River in Bridgeport, Nebraska North Platte River and its tributaries. Cheyenne River (SD) Hat Creek; White River; Niobrara River. Burgess Creek; Bingham Creek; Snake River ...
The Great Platte River Road was a major overland travel corridor approximately following the course of the Platte River in present-day Nebraska and Wyoming that was shared by several popular emigrant trails during the 19th century, including the Trapper's Trail, the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, the California Trail, the Pony Express route ...
In the decades following the Great Depression and World War II, many Appalachian residents moved to industrial cities in the north and west in a migration that became known as the "Hillbilly Highway". The mechanization of coal mining during the 1950s and 1960s was the major source of unemployment in central Appalachia.
Helen is a Bavarian-style town located a 15-minute drive away from Unicoi Gap, a popular route on the Appalachian Trail in Georgia. Though there are only 500 residents who live in Helen, it’s ...
The river flows for approximately 359 miles (578 km) [2] from central Nebraska into Kansas, until its confluence with the Kansas River at Manhattan. It was given its name by the Kansa tribe of Native Americans, who lived at its mouth from 1780 to 1830, and who called it the Great Blue Earth River .
The "Little" and "Great" "Ne-ma-haw" Rivers are seen at the west-central edge of the map. The Nemaha River basin includes the areas of the U.S. state of Nebraska below the Platte River basin that drain directly into the Missouri River. The major streams of the drainage include Weeping Water Creek, Muddy Creek, Little Nemaha River, and Big ...