I occasionally pick up a history book and flip through the pages. The other day I picked up an 800- page tome that was Volume 2 of the three-volume Illustrated History of Nebraska. It was written by J. Sterling Morton in 1906. I ran across an autobiographical entry by a Dr. George B. Miller.
Miller had served as the post trader at Ft. Kearney from 1861 to 1864, and this fact plays a large part…