Ham, eggs, and corn cake
Subtitle: a Nebraska Territory diary
By: Erastus F. Beadle ; introduction by Ronald C. Naugle.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Beadle, Erastus Flavel, 1821-1894 -- Diaries; Beadle, Erastus Flavel, 1821-1894 -- Travel -- Middle West; Pioneers -- Nebraska -- Diaries; Frontier and pioneer life -- Nebraska; Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West; Nebraska -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Omaha Region (Neb.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Omaha Region (Neb.) -- Biography
Genres: Diaries.; Biography.
Description: "Three years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act embroiled the plains states in a struggle that presaged the war to come, the irrepressible Erastus F. Beadle left his home in Buffalo, New York, and set out for the territories to see about some land. Specifically, Beadle had a stake in the Sulphur Springs Land Company, an enterprise that proposed to build the community of Saratoga just north of Omaha for prospective settlers, who were arriving by the boatload.

In diary pages and letters home Beadle noted his impressions - the details, anecdotes, and characters that filled his days - and in doing so, left a remarkable record of a bygone way of life in the American West.".

"Beginning with his three-month journey westward, Beadle takes us from the hardships and amusements of travel on the "Big Muddy" to the magnificent sight of a prairie fire at night, from the political propaganda abroad in the "slavery stronghold" of Kansas to the realities of doing business on the Nebraska frontier.

Whether describing roads or water routes, mishaps or accommodations, finances, politics, or daily life, Beadle writes with an immediacy and character that make his diary as entertaining as it is informative - a living, intimate chapter of American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Bison books"--Prelim. p.
Originally published as: To Nebraska in '57 : a diary of Erastus F. Beadle. New York : New York Public Library, 1923.