Scotts Bluff National Monument Nebraska
Mattes MJ. 1958. Scotts Bluff National Monument Nebraska. Historical Handbook Series. No. 28. National Park Service. Washington, D.C.
Scotts Bluff was a celebrated landmark on the great North Platte Valley trunkline of “the Oregon Trail,” the traditional route of overland migration to Oregon, California, and Utah. Today the massive castellated bluff looks down upon concrete highways, railways, airports, irrigated farms, and bustling communities of the mid-20th century; but it is the same awe-inspiring sentinel which 100 years ago watched the passage of countless trains of ox-drawn covered wagons, and the twinkling of many campfires. Scotts Bluff National Monument keeps alive the epic story of our ancestors who dared cross the wilderness of plains and mountains to plant the western stars in the American flag. This handbook contains the history of Scotts Bluff from the early exploration of the Great Plains, to the migration to Oregon, to the prehistory of the Scotts Bluff Region, and much more.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Mattes, Merrill
- Date of Issue
- 1958
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- HIST , SCBL
- Keywords
- Cultural Resources, ehistory, Oregon Trail, Scotts Bluff