Omaha's First Families

You’ve driven down the Omaha streets and visited the attractions that bear their names Ð Creighton, Cuming, Lauritzen, Fontenelle, Kountze Ð but you may not have given a second thought to the families behind the legacies. Who were these men and women who took a big risk on a little river town? What compelled them to endure the hardships and challenges of life in a frontier town in the mid-19^th century?

“Omaha’s First Families” takes a look at a group of individuals motivated by idealism, enterprise, ambition and greed, who set down their roots in a settlement bordered by a raging river on one side and the vast frontier on the other, to stake a claim in the unknown.