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Kearney, Nebraska

by | Mar 19, 2011 | Uncategorized

A multi-generation friendship with the Pawnee tribe helps sustain Kearney to this day.
For Ronnie O’Brien, her connection to Kearney begins in 1842 in Ireland and ends more than a century and a half later in Nebraska. Her husband’s ancestors, Edmund and Ellen O’Brien, settled along the Wood River in Nebraska. They found a good friend in Pawnee Chief Many Blankets, especially during a local fever outbreak in 1864; he to


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