Editing North Platte, Nebraska (section)

==History==
[[File:Nebraska - North Platte - NARA - 23942163 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Aerial view of Downtown North Platte in 1925]]
{{See also|North Platte black exodus|North Platte Canteen}}

North Platte was established in 1866 when the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/lincoln/northplatte/ | title=North Platte, Lincoln County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | access-date=19 August 2014 | archive-date=19 August 2014 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20140819220252/http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/lincoln/northplatte/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> It derives its name from the [[North Platte River]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27507 | title=Profile for North Platte, NE | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | access-date=19 August 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820175005/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27507 | archive-date=20 August 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref><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=96}} 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>

North Platte was the western terminus of the [[Union Pacific Railway]] from December 1866 until the next section to [[Ogallala, Nebraska|Ogallala]] was opened the following year.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Union Pacific Railroad |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/20366049/ |access-date=13 November 2023 |work=The New York Times |issue=4901 Vol XVI |date=June 11, 1867 |location=New York, New York |page=5 |quote=North Platte... is at present the terminus of passenger travel over the Union Pacific and the overland stages make it their starting point for Denver and California.}}</ref> Even though Congress had authorized the building of the [[First transcontinental railroad|Transcontinental Railroad]] in 1862, it had been extended only as far as [[Fremont, Nebraska]] by the end of the 1865 construction season. The {{convert|275|mi|adj=on}} section from Fremont to North Platte was completed in 1866.<ref>{{cite web |title=UPRR End of Track Dateline, 1865-1869 |url=https://www.up.com/cs/groups/public/documents/up_pdf_nativedocs/pdf_eot_historical_up_maps.pdf |website=Union Pacific |publisher=Union Pacific Railroad |access-date=12 November 2023}}</ref>

[[File:Cody House, view to the northwest.jpg|thumb|House at Scout's Rest Ranch]]
In the 1880s, [[Buffalo Bill Cody]] established his ranch, known as [[Scout's Rest Ranch]], just north of town. It is now a [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=NPGallery Asset Detail|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/78001705|access-date=2021-12-15|website=npgallery.nps.gov}}</ref>

On July 13, 1929, a black man shot and killed a white police officer. The black man reportedly took his own life, being trapped by a mob.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Dales|first=David|date=1979|title=North Platte Racial Incident: Black-White Confrontation, 1929|journal=Nebraska History|volume=60|pages=424–446|via=history.nebraska.gov}}</ref><ref name="eji.org">{{cite web |title=Jul. 13, 1929 {{!}} White Mob Forces 200 Black People Out of North Platte, Nebraska |url=https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/13 |website=calendar.eji.org |publisher=[[Equal Justice Initiative]] |access-date=7 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref> This led to the formation of white mobs combing the city, and ordering black residents to leave North Platte. Fearing mob violence, most of [[North Platte black exodus|North Platte's black residents fled]].<ref name="nebraskahistory.org">{{cite journal |last1=Dales |first1=David G |title=North Platte Racial Incident: Black-White Confrontation, 1929 |journal=[[History Nebraska|Nebraska History]] |date=1979 |issue=60 |pages=426–446 |url=https://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1979NorthPlatte.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522153519/http://nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1979NorthPlatte.pdf |url-status=usurped |archive-date=May 22, 2013}}</ref>

{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | video1 = [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9yAWJ7z50 Lincoln County Museum, North Platte, Nebraska], Jim Griffin, 1:57, 27 July 2014| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?170817-1/once-town History Bookshelf - ''Once Upon a Town''], [[C-SPAN]] with [[Bob Greene]], 50:06, 24 June 2002 }}
The [[North Platte Canteen]] was one of the largest volunteer efforts of World War II, originating in 1941.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Greene|first=Bob|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52242740|title=Once upon a town : the miracle of the North Platte Canteen|date=2003|publisher=Perennial|isbn=0-06-008197-X|edition=1st Perennial|location=New York|oclc=52242740}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Reisdorff|first=James J.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14639915|title=North Platte canteen|date=1986|publisher=South Platte Press|others=Service Press)|isbn=0-9609568-5-9|location=David City, Neb.|oclc=14639915}}</ref> Tens of thousands of volunteers from North Platte and surrounding towns met the troop trains passing through North Platte, offering coffee, sandwiches, dessert, and hospitality to nearly seven million servicemen.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Spencer|first=Matthew|title=NORTH PLATTE CANTEEN|url=https://www.nebraskalife.com/blog/post/north-platte-canteen|access-date=2021-04-08|website=www.nebraskalife.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=North Platte Canteen: Where The Heartland Opened Its Heart In WWII|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/12/07/503157986/north-platte-canteen-where-the-heartland-opened-its-heart-in-wwii|access-date=2021-04-07|website=NPR.org|date=December 7, 2016 |language=en |last1=Kankiewicz |first1=Kim }}</ref>