NEBRASKA 



4101 



NEBRASKA 



10 M 40 SO 100 

 Jfavigabl, River, 



OUTLIXI-: MAP OF NEBRASKA 

 Showing the boundaries, chief rivers, principal cities, and the highest point of land in the state. 



the high schools, and since 1913 qualified high 

 schools have given instruction in agriculture, 

 manual training and domestic science. Text- 

 books are furnished by the state. The school 

 fund is derived from the sale of public lands, 

 state and local taxation, fines and forfeitures. 

 The expenditure for public schools is over $10,- 

 000,000 a year. 



The state maintains normal schools at Peru, 

 rney, Wayne and Chadron, and a univer- 

 sity at Lincoln (see NEBRASKA, UNIVERSITY OF). 

 Other institutions of higher education, all of 

 which are coeducational, are Bellevue College 

 at Bellevue; Cotner University at Bethany; 

 Union College at College View ; Doane College 

 at Crete ; Grand Island College at Grand Island ; 

 Hastings College at Hastings; University of 

 Omaha at Omaha; Nebraska Wesleyan Univ. r- 

 sity at University Place ; York College at York. 

 ro is an agricultural school at Curtis and 

 United States maintains a school for In- 

 dians at Genoa. 



A state board controls institutions of chanty 

 and correction, including schools for the blind 

 at Nebraska (' i-histrial school forj 



ml rney; an institution for 



i ml dumb at Omaha ; asylums for 

 insane at Lincoln, Norfolk, I .ml Hat- 



i; a hospital for crippled children at I. in- 

 industrial schools for girls at Geneva an.l 

 >rd; soldiers' and sailors' homes at Mi! 



and Burkett; the penitentiary at Lincoln. In 

 1915 contract labor was abolished and instruc- 

 tive labor introduced in the state prison; all 

 jails are required to provide labor for prisoners, 

 if necessary hiring them to private persons. 

 The care of neglected and dependent children 

 is administered by a state board of control, and 

 a public defender is employed by the state. 



The Land. Nebraska lies in the region of the 

 Great Plains at the base of the east slope of 

 the Rocky Mountains. It rises uniformly from 

 an elevation of 850 feet in the east, near thr 

 Missouri River, to the foothills and lofty, bar- 

 ren table-lands near the Wyoming border, which 

 rise about 5,000 feet above the sea. In these 

 hills are tin- Induct peaks of the state, includ- 

 ing Hogback Mountain, the highest point in 

 >tate, Wild Cat Mountain, Gabe Rock and 

 Coliseum Peak, all rising above 5.000 f 

 northwestern part of the state consists of sand 

 lulls, Bad Lands and rough plains, where there 

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buffalo grass and the sage gram dry, 



In the hot white glare of a cloudless . 

 And the music of streams Is never he 



Pine Ridge, a line of fantastically-shaped 

 cliffs and buttes, gashed by cafions and bare 

 of vegetation, extends acros.* 

 ner of the stntc. None of tl ke peaks 



or flat-topped hills of this region are of impres- 

 urandcur, but in the wooded foothills, espe- 



