Locke is a Louisville businessman who self-published his first book in 2009. He became the second writer this year to sell one million books on Amazon.com, through the company's Kindle Direct Publishing service.
The second commemorative quarter-dollar coin released in 2006 honors Nebraska, and is the 37th coin in the United States Mint's 50 State Quarters Â® Program. Nebraska, nicknamed the Cornhusker State, was admitted into the Union on March 1, 1867, becoming our Nation's 37th state.
The 1945 Legislature changed the official state name to the. âCornhusker Stateâ. The name is derived from the nickname for the University of Nebraska athletic teams - the Cornhuskers - which was coined in 1900 by Charles S. Cy Sherman, a sportswriter for the Nebraska State Journal in Lincoln.