The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.
Henderson County was the staging area for wagon trains heading for both Oregon and California.
The West was the land of opportunity and the lure of both property and gold enticed county residents onto the trail.
Modern day travelers may gain a sense of what it was like by stopping at the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument at Kearney, Nebraska.
Here through the words from diaries and pictures as well as simulation one experiences being out on the prairie in a thunderstorm and facing a herd of stampeding buffalo among other things.
This museum chronicles the road West even up to modern times.
If you are driving Interstate 80 through this part of Nebraska, pause and relive the pioneer experience.