Western Nebraska’s Pine Ridge country looks quiet today. Rugged buttes rise over the White River Valley, cottonwoods trace the bends of the water, and open grassland stretches toward the horizon. But beneath that calm landscape is one of the most powerful and complicated stories in Nebraska history.
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 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.
Every winter, bald eagles transform Nebraska’s rivers and reservoirs into staging grounds for one of the Great Plains’ most dramatic natural events: the return of the bald eagles.
