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3 unusual facts about North Platte


Becca Fitzpatrick

Raised in North Platte, Nebraska, she graduated in April 2001 from Brigham Young University with a degree in Community Health, and went to work as a secretary, teacher, and accountant at an alternative high school in Provo.

North Platte, Nebraska

Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Senator and U.S. Secretary of Defense; born in North Platte.

Stan David

Stanley Chaunce David (born on February 17, 1962 in North Platte, Nebraska, U.S.) is a former American football player for the Buffalo Bills of the NFL.


KFXL-TV

The KWNB (Hayes Center) signal serves portions of the North Platte market, which puts KFXL in competition with that market's local Fox affiliate, K11TW, which is seen on a low-power analog signal and on a subcarrier of KNOP-TV.

KTVG-TV

Through this LMA, KSNB was sister station to KPTM, the Omaha Fox affiliate, and the Nebraska Television Network, composed of ABC affiliates KHGI-TV in Kearney, KWNB-TV in Hayes Center, and KHGI-CA in North Platte.


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11th Ohio Cavalry

The battalion located its headquarters at Pacific Springs, Nebraska Territory, assigned to protect travelers and interests along the North Platte and Sweetwater Rivers, and then at South Pass, Idaho Territory, to guard the Overland Mail routes from Julesburg, Colorado to Green River, Wyoming.

Bailey Yard

Buffalo Bill located Scouts Rest Ranch at North Platte because it allowed him to move his Wild West Show by train or by wagon across the United States relatively quickly.

Bathtub Dogs

The Dogs have also done a number of private performances spanning from Omaha to North Platte including the retirement of John Gottschalk where they had the privilege of introducing Miss America, and the 75th Anniversary celebration of Barmore Drug in Lexington, NE.

Canteen

North Platte Canteen, a railroad stop in North Platte, Nebraska, United States that operated from 1941 to 1946

KJLT

KJLT-FM, a radio station (94.9 FM) licensed to North Platte, Nebraska, United States

KPNE

KPNE-FM, a radio station (91.7 FM) licensed to North Platte, Nebraska, United States

Overland Trail

In 1851 U.S. Army Topographical Engineer Captain Howard Stansbury returning east from an expedition to the Salt Lake Valley described a route from Fort Bridger via the Bitter Creek valley and Laramie Plains to the North Platte River.

Robert B. Crosby

Governor Crosby, who was known as "The Boy Governor from North Platte," was particularly proud that he was a great-grandson of John Holbrook Powers.

Route of the Oregon Trail

Those traveling south of the Platte crossed the South Platte River with its muddy and treacherous crossings using one of about three ferries (in dry years it could sometimes be forded without a ferry) before continuing up the North Platte River valley to Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming.