The region of present-day Red Cloud was intermittently occupied and used as hunting grounds by the Pawnees until 1833. Landmarks include Webster County Courthouse, Willa Cather House and Warner-Cather House. Red Cloud is the birthplace of William Norris, cEO of Control Data Corporation.
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The town's story in dates, from its own records, for home or classroom
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Large-letter postcard art filled with local photos
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6″×4″ postcard, glossy front
6″×4″ postcard, glossy front
6″×4″ postcard, glossy front
6″×4″ postcard, glossy front
6″×4″ postcard, glossy front
6″×4″ postcard, glossy front
The town's earliest Sanborn fire-insurance map, drawn building by building and hand-coloured, from the Library of Congress
Population 2010: 1,020 → 2020: 962
From Wikidata (CC0).
The region of present-day Red Cloud was intermittently occupied and used as hunting grounds by the Pawnees until 1833. In that year, a treaty was signed in which the Pawnees surrendered their lands south of the Platte River. According to George Hyde, it is likely that the Pawnees did not realize that they were thereby giving up their lands, and that they were led to believe that they were only granting the Delawares and other relocated tribes permission to hunt in the area.
In 1870, the area that is now Webster County was opened to homesteaders. In that year, Silas Garber and other settlers filed claims along Crooked Creek, just east of the present-day city. In 1871, the town, named after the renowned Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud, was voted county seat of the newly formed county. The city was platted in 1872.
The author Willa Cather lived in Red Cloud with her family for seven years, starting in 1883 at age nine, and later visited often. She used the town as inspiration for several in her novels, including Black Hawk in My Ántonia. Early articles by Cather were published in the city's first newspaper, The Red Cloud Chief. Several 19th-century buildings described in her books are part of the Willa Cather Historic District, the largest district dedicated to an author listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Her childhood home is also part of the district.
Adapted (trimmed) from the Wikipedia article Red Cloud, Nebraska, revision 1377040695 by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Red Cloud's population was 962 in the 2020 U.S. Census, down from 1,020 in 2010.
Willa Cather House
Webster County Courthouse
Warner-Cather House
William Ducker House