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How Did The Living Conditions Affect Nebraska's Life

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In the nineteenth century, the living conditions in Nebraska were tough to say the least. Reminiscences about the pioneer life often describe conditions such as droughts, blizzards, and grasshopper infestations. In the first few years, life in Nebraska was centered in the towns and farms along the west bank of the Missouri River. Nebraska was linked to everywhere else, but river steamboats. People tried to recreate the social life that they had at their previous home, but they were also influenced by the events that went on around them. Trains loaded and unloaded people at Nebraska City, Brownville, Wyoming, or Omaha where home and farms were established and new towns were built. On Independence Day, they would use any method to explode gun

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