Traveling Through Nebraska: Cities And Towns - Alliances Knight Museum
The Alliance Knight Museum is a local museum situated in Alliance, a city in Box Butte County, Nebraska. Founded in 2000 by various local residents, the museum showcases an impressive collection of artifacts that reveal the rich history of the region.
Located at 340 West Niobrara, the museum's name honors the Knights family, known for their early ranching ventures in the area, specifically in Hay Springs and Lakeside, and also for establishing the nearby Alliance Livestock Commission market. Among the exhibits, there is memorabilia that includes railroad and agriculture artifacts, medical and dental tools from the early days of Alliance, artifacts relating to the pioneers, soldiers, ranchers, cowboys, Native American memorabilia and historic photographs.
The Alliance Knight Museum welcomes local, regional and international tourists, with artifacts shedding light on rural and urban Nebraska history, while also shedding light on larger narratives from the Western frontier to pioneer era and beyond. One such exhibit on Native American life draws attention to Kiyuski, the "big foot" Ponca spiritual leader of the Oglala Lakota and Omaha Nation, along with a history on early pioneers that cultivated the North Platte river's fertile valley. Furthermore, artifacts from remnants of small tribes and villages such as Chalona provide information on geography, ancient settlement practices and displacement effects.
Some specific examples on exhibit include dental equipment from the late physician E.L. Foss who would visit remote towns for medical care and later return home by train to New York City to do further research before creating groundbreaking dental treatments such as the one that halted further dental decay to infected cavities; local veteran George Dern decorated service on navy destroyers near Philippines in the early 1920's as exhibited on the Veterans' Corner: American combat for defending world peace.
Some historical remnants include 'Bigfoot,' and his brother 'Kozy', the Kiyuski village site that used early horseback tribal journeys set at Saddle Mountain one of earliest tribal war efforts that clashed with United States forces after early land ownership issues erupted. It also commemorates various great acts and lives that supported local military forces after joining each side until historical military defeat of United States lands forces led the tribes to surrender.
Other remaining 'land relics, collectibles & oral items' being featured in the present museum displays came from over ten dedicated staff members and over fifteen general volunteers who collected the remaining last collections of remnants just before relocating it to this newly founded 'museum home.' Not only because a museum for commemorating history of its area was difficult for many regional communities at such an economic hardship moment then emerging in 2000- which, they had greatly accomplished that museum finally opened.
From military pieces of the world war, ranching apparatus dating to early-day settlers to more, educational historical objects this museum seeks to share its own wealth of regional local educational value with families and travelers of America making an educational first rate local spot destination and a regional historical memory museum place.
Located at 340 West Niobrara, the museum's name honors the Knights family, known for their early ranching ventures in the area, specifically in Hay Springs and Lakeside, and also for establishing the nearby Alliance Livestock Commission market. Among the exhibits, there is memorabilia that includes railroad and agriculture artifacts, medical and dental tools from the early days of Alliance, artifacts relating to the pioneers, soldiers, ranchers, cowboys, Native American memorabilia and historic photographs.
The Alliance Knight Museum welcomes local, regional and international tourists, with artifacts shedding light on rural and urban Nebraska history, while also shedding light on larger narratives from the Western frontier to pioneer era and beyond. One such exhibit on Native American life draws attention to Kiyuski, the "big foot" Ponca spiritual leader of the Oglala Lakota and Omaha Nation, along with a history on early pioneers that cultivated the North Platte river's fertile valley. Furthermore, artifacts from remnants of small tribes and villages such as Chalona provide information on geography, ancient settlement practices and displacement effects.
Some specific examples on exhibit include dental equipment from the late physician E.L. Foss who would visit remote towns for medical care and later return home by train to New York City to do further research before creating groundbreaking dental treatments such as the one that halted further dental decay to infected cavities; local veteran George Dern decorated service on navy destroyers near Philippines in the early 1920's as exhibited on the Veterans' Corner: American combat for defending world peace.
Some historical remnants include 'Bigfoot,' and his brother 'Kozy', the Kiyuski village site that used early horseback tribal journeys set at Saddle Mountain one of earliest tribal war efforts that clashed with United States forces after early land ownership issues erupted. It also commemorates various great acts and lives that supported local military forces after joining each side until historical military defeat of United States lands forces led the tribes to surrender.
Other remaining 'land relics, collectibles & oral items' being featured in the present museum displays came from over ten dedicated staff members and over fifteen general volunteers who collected the remaining last collections of remnants just before relocating it to this newly founded 'museum home.' Not only because a museum for commemorating history of its area was difficult for many regional communities at such an economic hardship moment then emerging in 2000- which, they had greatly accomplished that museum finally opened.
From military pieces of the world war, ranching apparatus dating to early-day settlers to more, educational historical objects this museum seeks to share its own wealth of regional local educational value with families and travelers of America making an educational first rate local spot destination and a regional historical memory museum place.
