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Vicki Harris
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Vicki Harris, a Nebraska Humanities Council Presenter, travels across Nebraska to give an account of the African-American pioneers and cowboys who settled on the prairie in the late 1800's and early 1900's. She is a teacher and became interested in gathering the informative stories in 1994, primarily for use in her classroom.
She started her research into the Westerville settlement; 50,000 acres of Sand hills in Cherry County, Nebraska which was settled by African-American Kinkaiders; cowboys such as Amos Harris from the Burwell area; Tommy Goodchild who had a bath house in Grand Island and more.
She has presented several of the Black History poems at Old West Days in Valentine, Nebraska and at the Cheyenne Cowboy Symposium & Celebration.
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