The Chief Big Elk statue is very impressive. Big Elk is wearing a medallion from the Lewis and Clark expedition. He is also draped with a blanket which was traditional dress for the Omaha. He is holding a tomahawk. The statue is by Benjamin Victor 2022.
Nebraskaland Magazine's The Road Home: A Photographic Journey, Nebraskaland Magazine, Volume 73 #1, January-February 1995, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Lincoln, Nebraska.
This is a very good look of Nebraska, especially rural Nebraska. It has Nebraska in wintr and spring and summer. It has mountainous Nebraska form the western part of the state, deep gullies and valleys. There are ranches, and animals. What is missing are pictures of urban Nebraska. Nothing of Omaha or Bellevue. There are pictures of the fairgrounds in Lincoln, but this book focuses exclusively on rural Nebraska. Maybe that is home.
This statue sits by the north end of the Kiewit Luminarium, just past the sand volleyball courts going towards the river. The statue is located where there use to be a lead refinery.
By the parking lot for Kiewit Luminarium vy the River Front Trail is a memorial statue to the firemen of Omaha. It includes a list of those who have died while serving. It was made by Matthew Paczek and sponsored by International Association of Firefighters Local 385.
I noticed these one day driving by and determined to go back to get pictures. There are eleven people with umbrellas, mostly children, outside the hospital. The hospital is on Dodge at 8200 Dodge.
This artwork is just off the Omaha Riverfront Trail and is close to Kiewit Luminarium by John David Brcin.
A couple art structures stand out in Iowa from the Nebraska side of the Missouri River. The artwork is in Tom Hanafan River's edge park.
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| Big Mo by Mark Di Suvero |
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| Looking Up by Tom Friedman |
The Kanesville Visitors Center has a series of Pioneer woman in relief, Brigham Young and his counselors, Henry W. Miller, Brigham Young calling a man to the Mormon Battalion and he leaving his family, and a few paintings of historical scenes. This is along with the informational paintings.
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| Kanesville Tabernacle |
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| Thomas Kane |
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| Calling a pioneer to the Mormon Battalion |
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| New First Presidency, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards |
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| Henry W. Miller |
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| Kanesville |
The Fairview Cemetery in Council Bluffs has been there a long time, since before the Mormons were in Kanesville, 1846-1853 as it was used for pioneer burials. There are no pioneer headstones however. It is located at the corner of Lafayette and Oakland Ave. Of particular note is the Black Angel placed to commemorate the death of Ruth Ann Dodge, the wife of General Grenville Dodge, the railroad baron. The sculpture is by Daniel Chester French. It is based on a dream Ruth had shortly before her death of an angel offering water. I must go back in the spring when the water should be running.
