Bellevue: Nebraska's Oldest Frontier Town - Paperback

by Wm Bruce McCoy (Author)

This is an exciting and interesting book about a wagon train that heads from Louisville, Kentucky to Oregon. Two wagon train families decide to stay in Bellevue, Nebraska, due to a tragedy. The rest of the book chronicles their settling into the frontier town and developing their livelihoods. It tells of joys, fears, and triumphs. It also gives the reader a great deal of historical data regarding the wagon train route and the early settlement of Bellevue and the Nebraska Territory.

Author Biography

Wm. Bruce McCoy worked in education for 45 years. He started with 14 years at Brownell-Talbot School in Omaha, then was athletic director and assistant principal at Bellevue West High School from 1979-89, before going on to serve 20 years as the superintendent of three small school districts at Exeter, Nebraska, Winnebago, Nebraska and at Lewiston, Nebraska, where he retired in the summer of 2011 after 15 years there. McCoy got his B.A. degree from Peru State College in 1965, his Master's Degree in Guidance & Counseling from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in !970 and his Doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1977.