JIM MCKEE

Although Dawes County does not specifically appear frequently with “above the fold” news, its history has many interesting stories including its being home to a woman homesteader Fannie O’Linn, who was the county’s first postmaster, Nebraska’s first woman attorney, who was “present at the first wedding, the first birth and the first funeral in Dawes County” and the 11th woman admitted to the “Supreme Court Bar.”

Even though Nebraska had become a state, until the early 1870s there were only a few fur traders and trappers amongst the American Indians in the area.

With the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, the Deadwood Trail through what would become Dawes County brought a few cattlemen investigating its potential in 1875, then, the following year, Camp Robinson was establish

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