A favorite of mine from early Omaha. Published in the paper in 1868
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Some towns are famed for beauty,
And others for deeds of blood,
But say what you may of Omaha,
It beats them all for mud.
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Carl Sandburg in 1920 on Omaha's time as a stockyard city
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Omaha, the roughneck, feeds armies, Eats and swears from a dirty face. Omaha works to get the world a breakfast.
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Oscar Wilde after a visit to Omaha in 1882
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You have not the lower orders of the eastern cities. I find less prejudice and more simple and sane people. The western part of America is really the part of the country that interests us in England because it seems to us that it has a civilization that you are making for yourselves - not the complimentary echo of British thought.
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