Nebraska's Ellis Island
Nebraska Stories
Air Date: 02/16/2022
During its earliest days, cattlemen drove their longhorns to Omaha where they loaded their livestock onto Union Pacific train cars bound for markets in the east. Within thirty years, four major meat packing plants were operating at the South Omaha Stockyards and eventually overtook Chicago as the nation’s largest livestock market.
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