60 Nebraskaland • October 2020
PORTRAITS FROM THE PAST
My family loves your magazine. We are grown and live all over the country now, but Nebraska is home!
The year is 1974, one of many hunting trips with our father, John Morehead (not pictured). Left to right in the photo are Marc,
Bruce and Karen Morehead. Dad taught us to love the land, Nebraska in particular. Hunting and conservation was one way to
show it. The location is 20 minutes from Falls City, Nebraska.
I (Kristine) am one of five children to John and Amy Morehead. Photographed are three of my siblings, and we have another
sister, Amalia. The hunting was on private land in Nemaha County near the Missouri River. For a couple of years we built a
wax cotton canvas 'shack' and spent the nights in the field — freezing ourselves — but for some reason my dad thought this
was a good idea.
At any rate, we are all hunters and conservationists to this day, and some of the best memories I have are of these days on
the river.
– Kristine (Morehead) Hansen-Cain, Omaha
LEFT: In 1973, Tom Krause showed 10- to 12-year-old
boys how to camp in the winter on the Elkhorn River north
of Fremont. Pictured left to right are Korey Perry, Paul
Swaggerty and Joe Smith. I was the photographer. Tom is
the past president of the National Trappers Association.
OPPOSITE: This is me at age 14 during my first trapping
season on opening day, Nov. 1. I'm holding two muskrats.
These were taken at Hubbard ditch north of Fremont.
– Terry Kostinec, Vermillion, South Dakota
