Excerpt from The Nebraska Blue Book and Historical Register, 1915: A Publication of the Nebraska Legislative Reference Bureau, by Authority of Act of the Legislature, 1913 There has long been need of a book containing comprehensive and concise information upon Nebraska. The need has grown with the growth of the state. Accurate information upon a thousand aspects of Nebraska life is constantly sought by persons within and without the state. Hundreds of lot ters asking for this are answered every year by the Nebraska Reference Bureau. The information sought is scattered in hundreds of books and docu ments. In many cases it lies outside the field of any book or document and must be sought for originally out of the experiences of men. Or the unwritten record of natural phenomena. To assemble. Condense and publish a large body of the information most commonly called for has seemed an important and economical step in social progress. Such books are now published by some department of nearly all civilised states and countries. In Nebraska. The Leg islative Reference Bureau has been entrusted with this task as a proper func tion of its duties. Defined in the act of April 7. 1911. To carry on research in subjects of special public interest. Publish the same in convenient form and in every way promote the diffusion of accurate and reliable information upon questions connected with the development of civic life in Nebraska. The initial step in starting this work under the auspices of the Reference Bureau was the suggestion of Hon. Addison Wait. Former Secretary of State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.