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Photo: Mary Anne Andrei
From Bold Nebraska Photostream. Bold Nebraska anti-KXL campaign website here.
Noel, Bob, and Nancy Allpress at the entrance to their ranch in Keya Paha County. Bob Allpress’s great grandfather William Allpress and his family arrived by wagon on the south side of the Keya Paha River in 1882 where they set up a homestead. At that time, the north side of the river was still populated by Sioux tribes. After the Sioux ceded the land to the US Government and opened it for settlement in 1886, Bob’s grandfather, great uncle, and two great aunts moved across the river and established joined homesteads along Alkali Creek. All four homesteads were eventually gathered together as one ranch and have been in the family for the last 127 years. The proposed KXL route traverses the Allpress property by crossing over a Sioux burial site, passing behind Bob’s house before exiting through the front gate of his brother’s home.