Nellie Snyder Yost
Nellie Irene Snyder Yost was a historian and writer. She was an active member of the Nebraska State Historical Society, serving for many years as its president, and wrotebooks and many articles on Nebraska history, including biographies of her father, her mother, and Buffalo Bill Cody.
Nellie Irene Snyder was born on June 20, 1905 to Albert Benton Snyder and Grace Bell McCance Snyder in a sod house in northwest Lincoln County Nebraska. At the age of two weeks she was carried on horseback to a ranch in McPherson County Nebraska. She suffered a childhood illness that permanently damaged her spine and slowed her growth resulting in her diminutive height offeet,8160inches. She lived with her family in McPherson County until 1919 when the family moved to Maxwell, Nebraska where she graduated as class valedictorian in 1923. She taught one year in a rural McPherson County school, riding horseback to her school six miles a day. After that she moved to Salem, Oregon for two years, where she worked in the office of Miller Department Store.
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