Nebraskaland

30 NEBRASKAland • JULY 2018 I n 1795, James Mackay, working for the Upper Missouri Company, led the first European expedition into the heart of the Sandhills. He was not impressed, describing "a great desert of drifting sand, without trees, soil, rock, water, or animals of any kind." He and other explorers, whose negative attitudes were possibly shaped by the difficult travel on loose sands or the impacts of drought, branded the region a "no-man's land."

• Front Cover
• From Our Readers
• Mixed Bag
• Our Own Danish Alps
• Time Well Spent
• Summer Wildflowers of the Sandhills
• The Nebraska Table
• Walgren Lake
• Fish Ladders
• Page 49
• Outdoor Education
• Portraits from the Past
• Wilderness Workshop
• The Last Stop
• Back Cover