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- A Hat Fashions the Settlement of the West - Information on the beaver hat, which set in motion forces and events of significance for the opening of the American West.
www.pinedale.com/misc/settlement.shtml
- Academic Info: History of the American West - An annotated directory of Internet resources on the history of the American West.
www.academicinfo.net/amwest.html
- America's West - Development & History - Provides information on the history and development of the American West.
www.americanwest.com
- American West - Collection of articles and research links about the history of America's West from Virtualology.com.
virtualology.com/americanwest
- 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.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/cnchron1.html
- Cooking Prairie Style - Takes a look back at frontier cuisine in the 1800's, including holiday dishes and cooking and frontier links.
www.birthofahomebusiness.com/frontier.html
- Department of Dakota - Factual data about the Military Department of Dakota containing troop rosters, a gazeteer of locations within the department, information about military operations from the 1870s.
www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/3832/welcome.html
- Early West History - Provides a collection of links to sites about the history of the American West.
dent.edmonds.wednet.edu/IMD/historyearlywest.html
- Historical Gazette - Acts of bravery, mean deeds, the pioneers' struggles, gold seekers, Indian battles, railroad barons, all headlines from early news papers.
www.aracnet.com/%7Ehistgaz/index.shtml
- History Buff - Listing of "Old West History" Articles - Discovery.com provides articles on the history of the Old West on selected topics from the time period.
www.discovery.com/guides/history/historybuff/library/refwest.html
- History Channel: This Day in Old West History - Daily article about a birthday or major event on that day related to the American West.
www.historychannel.com/tdih/oldwest.html
- History of the American West - Photos from 1860-1920 from the collection of the Denver Public Library, searchable index by keyword, subject or name.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html
- 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.
php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/visual5.html
- Jim Janke's Old West - List of resources on historical, cultural, social, technological, and other aspects of the Old West.
homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/oldwest/oldwest.htm
- 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.
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/4707
- Lone Hand Western - Provides information on chuck-wagon lore, western music, cowboy stories, recipes and historical tidbits.
lonehand.com
- Meeting of Frontiers - 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.
frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html
- 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.
www.ukans.edu/heritage/old_west/old_west.html
- 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.
www.geocities.com/cott1388/oldwest.html
- Pioneer & Frontier Life - Provides letters, diaries, and other papers associated with the expansion westward and daily life on the frontier in the U.S.
www.system.missouri.edu/whmc/pioneer.htm
- 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.
www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/west.html
- Sod Houses - Presenting pioneer and homesteader sod houses, dug-outs and memories, c.1880 - 1999. Includes pictures of rebuilt and current houses.
websteader.com/wbstdsd1.htm
- The American West Frontier History - A collection of American western history web sites for the use of college students.
www.academicinfo.net/westfront.html
- The Depression Years (1929-1940) - Period photos and description of the impact of the Depression on the West.
www.dragongoose.com/LewHisDepression.html
- 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.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umessay0.html
- The Lazy S Ranch - Provides historic information on cowboys and frontier life in North and South America.
social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta
- 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.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml
- 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.
www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/old_west
- 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.
www.oldwesthistory.net
- The Western History Photography Collection - The Denver Public Library collection of more than 500,000 photographs related to the history of the American West with over 50,000 of these images on the Internet.
gowest.coalliance.org
- 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.
www.uprr.com/uprr/ffh/history
- 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.
www.unm.edu/~wha/index.html
- Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association - WOLA is an educational organization devoted to the history of the Old West.
home.flash.net/~pggreen/WOLA
- Westward Expansion - A collection of United States history research links.
www.snowcrest.net/jmike/westexp.html
- WestWeb - A topically-organized collection of resources of use to those studying Western American history.
www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/noframes/main.html
- Wild West - Provides information on cowboys, gunfighters, the history of Swedish emigration to North America, and more.
hem.passagen.se/wild_west
- New Perspectives on The West - Companion site to Ken Burns' program about the American West featuring an interactive timeline, maps, and archived primary source materials.
www.pbs.org/weta/thewest
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