Photo: Brownville – 2011 – Ammodramus – Creative Commons
“Enticing the Iron Horse: The Unexpected Effects of Railroads on Town-Building in the Great Plains” by Robert Voss – 2008
The University of Nebraska – Lincoln offers this document from the James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities; Department of History from 2008. This paper includes history of the establishment of a railroad in Brownville. You can download the PDF document here (12 pages).
Additional links to access this document from the UNL Library:
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=historyrawleyconference
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