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Beef State

Introduction

Lesson Plans: 1950-1974: Beef State - Grade Level [4]

Nebraska has had only two official state names:

  • The Tree Planter State, 1895 - 1945 and
  • The Cornhusker State, 1945 - present. (Many outsiders may think that this last title derived from the football team, rather than the other way around.)

However, beef had become so important to Nebraska’s economy by the 1950s that from 1956 through 1965, the Nebraska license plate carried the motto,

The Beef State

That title was never an official state name ... Read more

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