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Settler Communities in the West
Proceedings of a symposium on stewardship of historic and archaeological sites and other cultural resources on Defense Dept. lands in the region. Provides historical background on farms, ranches, mines, transportation systems, and communities.
https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-...
History Channel: This Day in Old West History
Daily article about a birthday or major event on that day related to the American West.
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/oldwest...
Jim Janke's Old West
List of resources on historical, cultural, social, technological, and other aspects of the Old West.
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/oldwest/ol...
Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance
Of all the incidents in recent American Indian history, the Ghost Dance of 1890 is probably without equal in evocative power.
http://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/visual5.h...
Pioneer & Frontier Life
A collection of letters, diaries, and other papers associated with the expansion westward and daily life on the frontier in the pioneer era U.S. Part of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri.
http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/tl-pioneer.ht...
The Old West - Suite101.com
Covers 19th century America, west of the Rocky Mountains; including events, personalities, and the growth of towns from this period in US history.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/old_we...
Lone Hand Western
Provides information on chuck-wagon lore, western music, cowboy stories, recipes and historical tidbits.
http://lonehand.com
Old West Links - How the West Tamed America
Provides online Old West resources (links) about Gold Rush history, overland trails, and Old West lore and legend.
http://www.geocities.com/cott1388/oldwest....
Westward Expansion
A collection of United States history research links.
http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/westexp.htm...
The Northern Great Plains (1880-1920)
Photographs from Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections with 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfaht...
America's West
Explore information on the history and development of the American West.
http://www.americanwest.com/
Wild West
Provides information on cowboys, gunfighters, and the history of Swedish emigration to North America.
http://hem.passagen.se/wild_west/
American West
Collection of articles and research links about the history of America's West from Virtualology.com.
http://virtualology.com/americanwest/
Old West Kansas
Compilation of the Kansas Heritage Sites covering a broad range of topics dealing with the American West and more specifically with the history of Kansas.
http://www.ku.edu/heritage/owk/128/index.h...
History of the American West
Photos from 1860-1920 from the collection of the Denver Public Library, searchable index by keyword, subject or name.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtm...
Jimmy Camp
A historic campground along the Cherokee Trail in Colorado. Named after Jimmy Daugherty it was used by 19th century trappers, gold seekers, settlers, coalminers and ranchers.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/4707/
Western History Association
Information about this association which exists to promote the study of the North American West in all its varied aspects and in its broadest sense.
http://www.unm.edu/~wha/index.html
Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association
WOLA is an educational organization devoted to the history of the Old West.
http://home.flash.net/~pggreen/WOLA/
Conservation Chronology 1847-1871
A time line showing the Nations efforts at conservation in the American West. The people and the places in pictures and biographies.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/cnchr...
The History of the Upper Midwest
An overview of the history of the upper Midwest including lay of the land, the Indians, the French, the British, the ordinances, the pineries and the mines.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umessay...
Repositories of Primary Sources: Western United States and Canada
Provides links to primary sources of historical materials relating to the history of the Western United States.
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/...
WestWeb
A topically-organized collection of resources of use to those studying Western American history.
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/no...
Union Pacific Rail Road-History
This is the story of the first transcontinental railroad; the greatest, most daring engineering effort the country had yet seen.The idea was to span the west with iron rails from Omaha to Sacramento.
http://www.uprr.com/uprr/ffh/history/
Meeting of Frontiers
Tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West and the parallel exploration of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the two in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mf...
Historical Gazette
Acts of bravery, mean deeds, the pioneers' struggles, gold seekers, Indian battles, railroad barons, all headlines from early news papers.
http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/index.shtm...
The Lazy S Ranch
Provides historic information on cowboys and frontier life in North and South America.
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/
The Old West: America's Frontier
Provides information on the history of the American West along with photos and links to other Old West related sites.
http://www.oldwesthistory.net/
The Depression Years (1929-1940)
Period photos and description of the impact of the Depression on the West.
http://www.dragongoose.com/LewHisDepressio...
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