Digitized text edition of “Before Today: A History of Holt County, Nebraska” (1976) by Nellie Snyder Yost, Miles Publishing Co., O’Neill, Nebraska. Full text, family Genealogies, and the complete name Index are below.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: In The Beginning
- Chapter 2: The Blizzard Of 88
- Chapter 3: The Mill On The Rock Falls
- Chapter 4: The Little House On The Prairie
- Chapter 5: And These Were Highways?
- Chapter 6: Holt County’s Who’s Who
- Chapter 7: Horse And Buggy, Medicine And Doctors
- Chapter 8: Outlaws, Vigilantes And Sheriffs
- Chapter 9: Horse Business In Holt County
- Chapter 10: Fun And Games
- Chapter 11: Plows And Cows
- Chapter 12: Free Homes For The Millions
- Chapter 13: Hello Central
- Chapter 14: We
- Chapter 15: Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Heat, Nor Gloom Of Night
- Chapter 16: Disasters
- Chapter 17: The Three R’s
- Chapter 18: The Drums Of War
- Chapter 19: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
- Chapter 20: First Families
- Chapter 21: More First Families
- Chapter 22: Full Tide
- Chapter 23: The Settlement Peak
- Chapter 24: Bad Times – And Good
- Chapter 25: Pioneer Atkinson
- Chapter 26: Settlement On The Upper Elkhorn
- Chapter 27: Green Valley
- Chapter 28: More Green Valley Stories
- Chapter 29: Inez Valley
- Chapter 30: Then And Now
- Chapter 31: Stafford Through The Years
- Chapter 32: Echos From Emmet
- Chapter 33: Chambers And The Big Hay Valley
- Chapter 34: Page And Pleasant Valley
- Chapter 35: Amelia And Inez
- Chapter 36: A Well Watered Land
- Chapter 37: Middlebranch And Willowdale
- Chapter 38: Mineola – Opportunity
- Chapter 39: On The Redbird
- Chapter 40: The Agee Neighborhood
- Chapter 41: Troy – Paddock
- Chapter 42: Phoenix And Turkey Creek
- Chapter 43: Rugged Country
- Chapter 44: North Atkinson Country
- Chapter 45: Atkinson – Stuart
- Chapter 46: Ranch Country
- Chapter 47: The Blizzard Of ’49
- Chapter 48: Roundup
- Genealogies
- Index