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Meeting of Frontiers - http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html
Tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. |
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History of the American West - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html
Photos from 1860-1920 from the collection of the Denver Public Library, searchable index by keyword, subject or name. |
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New Perspectives on The West - http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
Companion site to Ken Burns' program about the American West featuring an interactive timeline, maps, and archived primary source materials. |
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The Northern Great Plains (1880-1920) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/
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. |
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Repositories of Primary Sources: Western United States and Canada - http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/west.html
Provides links to primary sources of historical materials relating to the history of the Western United States. |
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Conservation Chronology 1847-1871 - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/cnchron1.html
A time line showing the Nations efforts at conservation in the American West. The people and the places in pictures and biographies. |
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Union Pacific Rail Road-History - http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/index.shtml
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. |
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America's West - Development & History - http://www.americanwest.com/
Provides information on the history and development of the American West. |
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Western History Association - http://www.umsl.edu/~wha/
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. |
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The History of the Upper Midwest - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umessay0.html
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. |
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Jim Janke's Old West - http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/oldwest/oldwest.htm
List of resources on historical, cultural, social, technological, and other aspects of the Old West. |
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http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/noframes/main.html - http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/noframes/main.html
A topically-organized collection of resources of use to those studying Western American history. |
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The Old West: America's Frontier - http://www.oldwesthistory.net/
Provides information on the history of the American West along with photos and links to other Old West related sites. |
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Historical Gazette - http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/index.shtml
Acts of bravery, mean deeds, the pioneers' struggles, gold seekers, Indian battles, railroad barons, all headlines from early news papers. |
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Lone Hand Western - http://lonehand.com
Provides information on chuck-wagon lore, western music, cowboy stories, recipes and historical tidbits. |
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Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance - http://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/visual5.html
Of all the incidents in recent American Indian history, the Ghost Dance of 1890 is probably without equal in evocative power. |
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The Lazy S Ranch - http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/
Provides historic information on cowboys and frontier life in North and South America. |
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Pioneer & Frontier Life - http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/tl-pioneer.html
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. |
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Jimmy Camp - http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/4707/
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. |
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The Old West - Suite101.com - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/old_west
Covers 19th century America, west of the Rocky Mountains; including events, personalities, and the growth of towns from this period in US history. |