During the thirty-five years since it was first published, Nebraska Place-Names, thanks to its completeness and reliable scholarship, its excellent arrangement and its readability, not only has remained the standard work on the subject but is by way ofø becoming a classic of its kind. This new edition, which incorporates the complete text of the original study, once more makes available a work of interest to every Nebraskan as well as to social historians, folklorists, and collectors of Western Americana. ø Enriching the Fitzpartick study, and considerably increasing its scope, are four new chapters derived from another standard work, The Origin of the Place Names of Nebraska (The Toponomy of Nebraska) by J. T. Link. These chapters concern, respectively, the name ?Nebraska?; names of cultural features (trails, ranch and overland stations, military posts, Indian reservations, forests, state parks); names of water features (streams, lakes, marshes, swamps, springs, falls); and names of relief features (bluffs, buttes, hills, valleys, canyons, gulches, flats islands).

"The present volume is intended as an interim report of the study of Missouri place-names which has been carried on by students in the English department of the Graduate School of the University of Missouri for the past six years ... An account of the inception and progress of the undertaking is given first. This is followed by a copy of the detailed directions which are put in the hands of our workers. Next are given some specimens of Missouri names that present problems of peculiar interest and difficulty. Then comes a general bibliography of our library sources, compiled by Mr. Allen Walker Read. Finally, as a specimen of the actual work accomplished ... Pike County"--Preface

This book is arranged by county.