On April 14, 1865, a world-weary president staged (he was quite the punster) his own assassination, and stole off into the night with a few loyal supporters.
They settled in what appeared to be a tourist trap, code-named Harold Warp's Pioneer Village, and from there built a new capital, named after President Lincoln.
The rest of the new state Nebraska was named after his fellow escapees: Bill Omaha, Bobby Valentine, Steve McCook, Alan Northplatte, Henry Scottsbluff, Christopher Chadron, Samuel Ogallala, ...
