There are 38 days left until the 2018 Nebraska football season!
38!
That means it’s time for Furnas County!
Furnas County is right next to my home county, Frontier, but I have to confess I remember very little about it. It contained 4,959 people as of the 2010 census, and it was named after Robert W. Furnas, the second governor of Nebraska. As governor, Furnas was responsible for having founded Arbor Day in Nebraska, which is a pretty big deal, actually.
Remember that Nebraska was part of the plains described as the “Great American Desert” before it was settled.