Editing Broken Bow, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Broken Bow was [[plat]]ted in 1882.<ref name="CALMIT">{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/custer/brokenbow/ | title=Broken Bow, Custer County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | access-date=August 4, 2014}}</ref> Its name, likely suggested by a settler who found a broken bow in a field at the site of a former Native American camping ground, was submitted by homesteader Wilson Hewitt to the U.S. Post Office Department.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KRU1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA192 | title=History of Custer County, Nebraska: A Narrative of the Past | publisher=Western Pub. and Engraving Company |author1=Gaston, William Levi  |author2=Humphrey, A. R.  |name-list-style=amp | year=1919 | pages=192}}</ref> The railroad was built through Broken Bow in 1884, and the town was incorporated as a village that same year.<ref name="CALMIT" /> Broken Bow was incorporated as a city of the second class in 1888.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=whQ1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA205 | title=S.D. Butcher's Pioneer History of Custer County: And Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska | publisher=Merchants Publishing Company | author=Butcher, Solomon Devore | year=1901 | pages=205| isbn=9780259742166 }}</ref>