This book perches a tad uncertainly in the interstice between history and travel. It does look like, walk like, and quack like a travel book, but rarely includes how to get to the destination and blows off what is probably Nebraska's major travel attraction, Henry Doorly Zoo, in one paragraph. The historical sites mentioned get much fuller attention, often even mini-histories. Unless I am delusional, I fancy that I know a good bit of Nebraska, and I learned many new things and found myself planning some trips. If the author's style is a bit pedestrian, I'll take that in a book which is perhaps the first book published this century, included by the biggest of houses, which I've read which contains no errors, whether grammatical, typographic, syntactical, or homonym. This can be done. ( )