History of the American expansion westward into the land west of the Mississippi. Information on the events that took place in the American West and the people that made the Old West aka the Wild West famous.
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
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/ndfahtml/
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. http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html
Companion site to Ken Burns' program about the American West featuring an interactive timeline, maps, and archived primary source materials. http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
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
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/umessay0.html
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_west
Acts of bravery, mean deeds, the pioneers' struggles, gold seekers, Indian battles, railroad barons, all headlines from early news papers. http://www.aracnet.com/%7Ehistgaz/index.shtml
Presenting pioneer and homesteader sod houses, dug-outs and memories, c.1880 - 1999. Includes pictures of rebuilt and current houses. http://websteader.com/wbstdsd1.htm
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/
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.system.missouri.edu/whmc/tl-pioneer.html
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.htm
