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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
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Cooking Prairie Style
Takes a look back at frontier cuisine in the 1800's, including holiday dishes and cooking and
frontier links.
http://www.birthofahomebusiness.com/frontier.html
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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/
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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/
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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.html
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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/cnchron1.html
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The Depression Years (1929-1940)
Period photos and description of the impact of the Depression on the West.
http://www.dragongoose.com/LewHisDepression.html
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Sod Houses
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
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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/%7Ehistgaz/index.shtml
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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_west
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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.html
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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/west.html
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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/codhtml/hawphome.html
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WestWeb
A topically-organized collection of resources of use to those studying Western American history.
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/noframes/main.html
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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/umessay0.html
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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.
http://www.pinedale.com/misc/settlement.shtml
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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.
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/3832/welcome.html
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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.ukans.edu/heritage/old_west/old_west.html
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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
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American West
Collection of articles and research links about the history of America's West from
Virtualology.com.
http://virtualology.com/americanwest/
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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.html
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Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association
WOLA is an educational organization devoted to the history of the Old West.
http://home.flash.net/~pggreen/WOLA/
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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.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
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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/oldwest.htm
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The Lazy S Ranch
Provides historic information on cowboys and frontier life in North and South America.
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/
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Academic Info: History of the American West
An annotated directory of Internet resources on the history of the American West.
http://www.academicinfo.net/amwest.html
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Westward Expansion
A collection of United States history research links.
http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/westexp.html
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Wild West
Provides information on cowboys, gunfighters, and the history of Swedish emigration to North
America.
http://hem.passagen.se/wild_west/
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The American West Frontier History
A collection of American western history web sites for the use of college students.
http://www.academicinfo.net/westfront.html
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America's West - Development & History
Provides information on the history and development of the American West.
http://www.americanwest.com/
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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.
http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html
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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/ndfahtml/
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Lone Hand Western
Provides information on chuck-wagon lore, western music, cowboy stories, recipes and historical
tidbits.
http://lonehand.com
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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
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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.
http://gowest.coalliance.org/
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