| Item Description: | Volume III contains biographical material. "About 1917 or 1918 ... [the Western publishing & engraving] company purchased the copyright of [Julius Sterling] Morton's three volume [Illustrated] history of Nebraska. It was condensed to one volume and was intended to be sold as the first volume to various other historical sets which they were publishing. For instance, it forms the first volume of Shumway's 'History of western Nebraska and its people' (1921)"--Letter from the librarian of the University of Nebraska, June 15, 1933. |