title: Remembering Nebraska: Stories of Courage, Determination, and Luck
author: Leah Lambert
description: Leah Jesse Lambert grew up on a cattle ranch tucked away in the Nebraska Sandhills. She attended Sheridan County's District 124 through eighth grade, went to Alliance High School, and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She is married, has three sons, and has lived in Kansas, Texas, North Dakota and Missouri. Leah has long been a collector of ancestral stories. As a child, growing up in the Sandhills, she was fascinated by the personal anecdotes, told over and over by her parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. She closed her eyes and saw the events unfold and became, for those few minutes, connected with the past.Now, with family spread to the corners of the country, Leah came to the realization that the personal stories she loved as a child were being lost. Remembering Nebraska, Stories of Courage, Determination, and Luck captures a wealth of oral history and will help to preserve a rich and diverse heritage for generations to come.
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  # COLLECTION OF  
  NEBRASKA PIONEER  
  REMINISCENCES  
  
    
  ISSUED BY THE  
    
  
  ## NEBRASKA SOCIETY OF  
  THE DAUGHTERS OF THE  
  AMERICAN REVOLUTION  
    
  
  NINETEEN SIXTEEN  
  THE TORCH PRESS  
    
  CEDAR RAPIDS  
    
  IOWA  
  
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  ## FORETHOUGHT
  
  This Book of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences is issued by the Daughters of the
  American Revolution of Nebraska, and dedicated to the daring, courageous, and
  intrepid men and women—the advance guard of our progress—who, carrying the
  torch of civilization, had a vision of the possibilities which now have become
  realities.
  
  To those who answered the call of the unknown we owe the duty of preserving
  the record of their adventures upon the vast prairies of "Nebraska the Mother
  of States."
  
  > "In her horizons, limitless and vast  
  >  Her plains that storm the senses like the sea."  
  >
  
  Reminiscence, recollection, personal experience—simple, true stories—this is
  the foundation of History.
  
  Rapidly the pioneer story-tellers are passing beyond recall, a