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Chadron: Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center
Chadron: Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, a museum dedicated to author Mari Sandoz and the culture of the High Plains, Chadron State College, Chadron, Nebraska.

Chadron

Nebraska, United States
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Chadron, city, seat of Dawes county, northwestern Nebraska, U.S., near the White River, a few miles south of the South Dakota state line, in the Nebraska panhandle. Sioux Indians lived in the region when cattle ranchers arrived in the 1870s. A community called O’Linn soon grew at the site; in 1885 its residents moved a few miles to the southeast, where a railroad had established another town, and changed the name to Chadron. The name Chadron is a corruption of Chartran, the name of a fur trader who once did business on the site. The city is now a service ...(100 of 238 words)

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