Richard N. Cabela

(1936- ) born at Chappell, lives in Sidney. Entrepreneur, known as major founder in 1961 of one of world's leading outfitters of outdoor sporting and recreational goods, he has developed with his brother James a business at Sidney with annual revenues of $1 billion, featuring stores in Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin and shipping goods and 90 million catalogs each year to all 50 states and at least 120 foreign nations; presented Distinguished Nebraskalander Award by Nebraskaland Foundation in 2001. Consult Sports Afield, April 1992, pp. 104-106 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, June 22, 1997, pp. A-1, A-10 and The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2002, pp. A-1, A-11. See also David Cabela, Cabela's, World's Foremost Outfitter: A History (Paul S. Eriksson, 2001).

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