Cuming County, NE Famous People
John G. Neihardt - Poet Laureate - 1881-1973
Author, lecturer, and award-winning poet, John Gneisenau Neihardt, arrived in Nebraska in 1892 at the age of eleven. Settling in Bancroft from 1900 to 1920
Bancroft Notables
-- Joseph "Iron Eye" LaFlesche, last chief of the Omahas. One of his daughters, Susan LaFlesche Picotte, was the first woman doctor in the area.
-- Susette "Bright Eyes" LaFlesche (