Color postcard (14 x 9 cm.) with an artist's rendering entitled "Bluffs of Niobrara River, Valentine, Neb." at the bottom left of the image. A meadow is seen on the left side of the image with the river flowing between it and the white sand bluffs on the right side of the image. Trees or bushes are seen in the foreground.
The Niobrara River headwaters originate in Wyoming 35 miles from the Nebraska border. The waters soon become swift, the channel dropping nine feet every mile. East of Valentine, Nebraska it passes through sandstone, clay and shale, the canyon rim 300 to 400 feet above the river bed. It eventually passes through the last of the rock walls and by Norden is broad and shallow. It drains about 9,795 square miles, about 13 percent of the state of Nebraska. Source: Nebraska Game & Parks Commission. Nebraskaland Magazine's Nebraska Rivers. Lincoln, 1983, p. 112.
