Villasur expedition
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The Villasur expedition of 1720 was a Spanish military expedition intended to check New France's growing influence on the North American Great Plains, led by Lieutenant-General Pedro de Villasur. Pawn
Villasur expedition painted on buffalo hide
Columbus, Nebraska
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Columbus is the county seat of Platte County, Nebraska, situated at the confluence of the Loup and Platte rivers roughly 85 miles west-northwest of Omaha and 75 miles northwest of Lincoln by road, nea
Villasur expedition
…slave, to translate. On August 13, Sistaca disappeared from camp. Villasur camped that night just south of the Loup–Platte confluence near present-day Columbus, Nebraska, nervous about the possibility of attack and the increasing number and belligerence of the Pawnee and Otoe Indians. The Pawnees and Otoes attacked at…
Bridge carrying U.S. Route 30 and U.S. Route 81 across the Loup River at Columbus, February 2010
The sun sets in Columbus along 23rd Street.
Columbus, seen from an airplane, looking south
Union Pacific depot in Columbus