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==History== The county is named for a prominent bluff that served as a landmark for 19th-century pioneers traveling along the [[Oregon Trail]]. Scotts Bluff was named for [[Hiram Scott]], a [[Rocky Mountain Fur Company]] trapper who died nearby around 1828.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Life and Legend of Hiram Scott|url=http://www.nps.gov/scbl/historyculture/hscott.htm|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=January 29, 2015}}</ref> [[Washington Irving]] claimed that, after being injured and abandoned, Scott had crawled sixty miles only to perish near the bluff that now bears his name.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Washington|first1=Irving|title=The Adventures of Captain Bonneville|date=1837|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Captain_Bonneville/Chapter_3|access-date=January 29, 2015}}</ref> The bluff is now managed by the [[National Park Service]] as [[Scotts Bluff National Monument]]. The town of Gering was founded at the base of the bluff in 1887, and the city of Scottsbluff was founded across the North [[Platte River]] in 1900. Joined by the river, the former transportation highway, the two cities now form Nebraska's 7th-largest [[Scottsbluff micropolitan area|urban area]].
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