Rooted in the Plains is a podcast about the people, places and moments that shaped the Great Plains. We'll dig into stories of resilience, curiosity and courage. These are the voices that whisper through the wind and are written in the dirt beneath our feet.
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29 Jul 2026
Lincoln: It Has a Ring to It
On July 29th, 1867, three men sat down in a private home in Lancaster, Nebraska, a settlement of fewer than fifty people and voted to make it the capital of the state. Twenty-two years later, that same ground was home to fifty thousand people, seventy factories, eighty wholesale houses, and thirty-one miles of streetcar track. In this episode, I take you on a walk starting at the spot where it began, then through Lincoln's Haymarket district, tracing the city that grew out of a prairie ...
15 Jul 2026
The Capital Ring: Power of the Platte
For thirteen years, two sides of the Platte River fought over the same prize: Nebraska's capital city. The stakes weren't just political — whoever held the capital held the federal payroll, the railroad route, and the future. Omaha had won every fight. Then statehood changed everything. In this episode, we follow the fight from its rigged beginnings in 1854, through legislative brawls, land schemes, and a midnight wagon heist, to the afternoon of July 29th, 1867 — when three men sat down in a...
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