Freighting Near Fort Kearney
Freighting across the Plains became big business with accelerated military campaigns of 1857 and 1858, and one of the biggest was the contracting firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell. Thaddeus…
The Nebraska City Road
"The most underrated and least understood approach to the Platte was that from Old Fort Kearney at Table Creek, which became Nebraska City in 1854. . . .[T]his was a…
The Great Venture of Leavenworth
"Horace Greeley wrote while on his way to Denver in 1859: 'Russell, Majors and Waddell's transportation establishment is the great feature of Leavenworth. Such acres of wagons! such pyramids of…