1993 Spring Ranch, Tom Jones and Elizabeth Taylor

This is kind of a fun thing we ran across while writing the CCN column. Spring Ranch was getting ready to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Oregon Trail. Their fundraising scheme was to contact singer Tom Jones and actress Elizabeth Taylor to get publicity photos to auction off.

Do you know why they did this...  answer below

Left to Right Joni Jones, Hastings Convention and Visitors Bureau; Robert Siemsen; Robert Matticks; Kelly Kahman, field representative for Nebraska Department of Economic Development; Becky Matticks; Marion Fike, Jr.; Sonnie Fike and Rick Matticks.

The major historical story about the Spring Ranche area is the 1885 lynching of two of their local citizens, one named Elizabeth Taylor and her brother Tom Jones.