CONTENTS. 



PART FIRST— PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 



Chapter. 



I. Topography and General Character of Nebraska 

 II. Climatology of Nebraska . 

 HI. Moisture and Rainfall ..... 



IV. Evidences of Increasing Rainfall — Sources of Rainfall 



V. Waters of Nebraska 



VI. Drainage of Nebraska, and Character of its Water 

 VII. General Flora of Nebraska .... 

 VIII. Forest Trees and Shrubs of Nebraska, with Notes on then Di: 

 tribution ..... 

 IX. The Wild Fruits of Nebraska . 



X. Wild Grasses 



XI. Fauna of Nebraska — Vertebrates 

 XII. Insect Life ..... 



XIII. The Locusts— Mollusks 



XIV. Healthfulness. — Reserve Forces and Probable Future of the Race 



in Nebraska ..... 



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 18 L 

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PART SECOND— GEOLOGY. 



Chapter. Page. 



I. Carboniferous Age in Nebraska ....... 101 



II. Mediaeval or Mesozoic Times in Nebraska ..... 173 



III. Mediaeval or Mesozoic Times in Nebraska, Continued . . 197 



IV. The Cenozoic Age in Nebraska. — Eocene Tertiary Epoch . . 209 

 A'. The Tertiary Period, Continued — Miocene Epoch . . . i y 2l 



VI. Tertiary Period, Continued— Pliocene Epoch .... 232 



XII. Quaternary Age— Glacial Period to the Loess — Superficial De- 

 posits ........... 252 



VIII. The Quaternary Age and Su eriicial Deposits, Continued—Loess 



Period ■ 265 



IX. Quaternary Age and Superficial Deposits, Continued.— Terrace 

 Epoch.— Alluvium.— Sand Hills. — Alkali Lands. — Timber, 



and Cause of Change of Climate ...... 291 



X. Economic Geology ......... 309 



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