[1][2][3] One reporter wrote, "Perhaps the candid Nebraskan would tell you in a moment of frank contriteness that the prime object of this exposition was to boom Omaha."

[4] In making their decision, the committee set aside several sites for consideration, including an area near 16th Avenue and Pershing Drive in East Omaha, near the now-dry Florence Lake.

Cody brought his "world-famous" Wild West Show back to the Omaha Driving Park where it was formally founded several years earlier.

[9] The following year after the Expo some members of its managing committee decided to host another Expo-type event, which became the Great American Exposition in summer 1899.

It allowed Expo designers to construct visual reproductions of Grecian and Roman temples, fine European buildings, and more.

The Post Office Department issued a series of nine postage stamps to mark the Exposition, each depicting a Western scene.

Now known as the Trans-Mississippi Issue and considered among the finest stamps produced by the US, they are highly prized by collectors; a complete unused set is worth about US$5,000.