Oil field, showing pump and rig, near Sidney, Nebr., RG3315.PH000007-000048

ID: 96 ~ Source: RG3315 Cheyenne County (Nebraska), Nebraska State Historical Society ~ Date: 1950 circa
This file appears in: Sidney-Cheyenne County
Oil field, showing pump and rig, near Sidney, Nebr., RG3315.PH000007-000048
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Oil field, showing pump and rig, near Sidney, Nebr.,

This file appears in: Sidney-Cheyenne County

By The Explore Nebraska History team
In 1867 an Army tent camp was established near here to provide protection for Union Pacific Railroad construction crews. Three years later it became Fort Sidney, the nucleus for the town of Sidney, county seat of Cheyenne County. The rush to the…