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Nebraska's Chimney Rock--a sentinel of westward migration

Chimney Rock National Historic Site
Thomas Wilmer

Western Nebraska is graced with tall sandstone bluffs and outcroppings. Chimney Rock National Historic Site in Bayard, Nebraska includes an interpretive center where visitors learn about the trials and tribulations of the early pioneers. We’ll join Loren Pospisil who shares his insights in to Nebraska’s most recognizable visual icon of Western migration.

The Sand Hills in Western Nebraska offers dramatic scenery
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The Sand Hills in Western Nebraska offers dramatic scenery

Western Nebraska is a realm of never-ending surprises from the diverse environment where rolling hills are suddenly interrupted by towering sandstone bluffs, spires, and rolling rivers.

Dramatic scenery around Scott's Bluff in Western Nebraska
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Dramatic scenery around Scott's Bluff in Western Nebraska

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska
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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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