John Bratt, Frontier County pioneer

Monday, February 23, 2009

The Civil War ended in 1865, and Nebraska achieved statehood in 1867, but our region, the Southwest portion of the new state, was already an important cattle raising district by that time. One of Nebraska's first cattle barons, a man who controlled the lives and fortunes of most of the white men who lived in the region, was a transplanted Englishman, who also spearheaded the creation of Frontier County.

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