Fans of Nebraskaland Magazine now have access to the entire 100-year run of the publication.
In the Nebraskaland Magazine Digital Archive, readers can view, browse and search editions from 1926 to 2026. This free-to-access archive was launched as part of the magazine’s 100th anniversary celebration.
Nebraskaland, through outstanding photography and storytelling, promotes the stewardship and conservation of the state’s natural resources and outdoor spaces. It highlights the state’s outdoor opportunities, such as hunting, fishing, camping, boating, and wildlife viewing, and it offers a rich chronicle of Nebraska’s history and culture.
This digital archive is a resource for the curious as well as anyone serious about Nebraska history and outdoor heritage.
“It’s a fun and immersive way to learn about the Nebraska outdoors across the years,” said Jaclyn Cruikshank Vogt, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s photo librarian, who led the project. “Nebraskaland is such a beloved, long-standing publication. It’s easy to get lost in the expanse of stories collected here as well as in the photos and artwork that illustrate them.”
Users can browse and search Nebraskaland Magazine, and its previous titles — Outdoor Nebraska and Outdoor Nebraskaland — from the beginning, using the full-text search box. They also can apply filters such as decade, month, year, season, volume, and special issue.
Work on the archive began in 2017 when Nebraska Game and Parks partnered with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. The archive first launched in 2020 with the first 50 years of the magazine.
In this second, expanded release, issues and pages were also added from the first 50 years that were not in the first launch. That includes the Summer 1939 issue, which took a decade for Cruikshank Vogt to track down. “This issue was printed in a non-standard format, as a fold-out map. Its unique design made it stand out from other issues, but it also made it a challenge to locate a surviving copy,” Cruikshank Vogt said.
While the archive was originally built and hosted by the CDRH, this refreshed and expanded version was migrated to a new platform and server now hosted and maintained by Game and Parks, with a new web address and updated design.
The archive makes page scans available from print issues held by Game and Parks and both the UNL and Nebraska Wesleyan University libraries, as well as born-digital documents created by Game and Parks.
Nebraskaland was known as Outdoor Nebraska when it was created in 1926 by the state’s first conservation officer, Frank B. O’Connell, to educate readers on current hunt and fish laws and the importance of conservation. Nebraska’s conservation officers also are celebrating their 100th anniversary in 2026.
Explore the archive at Archives.OutdoorNebraska.gov.
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