The Blowout Penstemon (Penstemon haydenii) is a rare and resilient wildflower that thrives only in sand dune blowouts across western Nebraska, northern Colorado, and Wyoming.
At the turn of the 20th Century, newspapers rarely commented on the Black community in western Nebraska unless it was related to crime. They were among many Black people who decided to move west for freedom and a better life.
Gering, Nebraska is one of those places where the landscape does most of the talking. The town sits in western Nebraska, close against the bluffs, prairie, river valley, and old overland trail country that helped shape the American West.
Gering, Nebraska sits at the foot of Scotts Bluff National Monument, in the heart of the North Platte Valley, where the prairie begins to rise into bluffs, buttes, ridges, and old trail country. It is not a large city, and that is part of its value.
