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Article Title: Henry James Hudson and the Genoa Settlement

Full Citation: Marguerite R Burke, “Henry James Hudson and the Genoa Settlement,” Nebraska History 41 (1960):

201-235

URL of article: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1960Hudson.pdf

Date: 3/05/2012

Article Summary: This article includes diary entries for Hudson’s 1857 boat trip from St. Louis to Genoa, a report

that he sent to a Salt Lake City newspaper later that year, and the text of a speech that he delivered after the Civil

War. The speech explains how the land near Genoa, settled with great effort by the Mormons, later became part of

the Pawnee Indians’ allotted reservation.

Cataloging Information:

Names: Brigham Young, Henry James Hudson

Place Names: Genoa, Nebraska; Florence, Nebraska

Keywords: Brigham Young, Henry James Hudson, Genoa, Florence, Mormon, hand carts, dugouts, Pawnee

Indians, SB Hannibal, reservation

Photographs / Images: Henry James Hudson; the Omaha landing Mormon emigrants at Florence, Nebraska (sketch

by George Simons, 1854)

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