Editing Gordon, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Gordon was incorporated as a village in 1885 when the railroad was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/sheridan/gordon/ | title=Gordon, Sheridan County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref> It was named for John Gordon, a pioneer settler.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 |isbn=0-8032-5060-6 | pages=133}} A [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc 1925 edition] is available for download at [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.]</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA78|year=1908|page=78}}</ref> Gordon was incorporated in November 1885.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shumway|first=Grant Lee|title=History of Western Nebraska and Its People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RM1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA424|year=1921|publisher=Western publishing & engraving Company|page=424}}</ref>

===Other names===
In the [[Lakota language]], Gordon is known as ''tȟáȟča wakpá otȟúŋwahe'', meaning "deer river city".<ref>{{cite book |last=Ullrich |first=Jan F. |title=New Lakota Dictionary |url=http://www.lakotadictionary.org/nldo.php |edition=2nd |year=2014 |publisher=Lakota Language Consortium |location=Bloomington, IN |isbn=978-0-9761082-9-0 |access-date=2014-05-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018034145/http://www.lakotadictionary.org/nldo.php |archive-date=2016-10-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref>