- Lone Hand Western
Traces the history of western expansion. Includes chuck wagon lore, music, cowboy stories, and recipes.
www.lonehand.com
- Glorieta and Raton Passes: Gateways to the Southwest
Explains how use of the two passes by traders, explorers, settlers, and soldiers ensured that New Mexico and the Southwest would become part of the United States.
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/117glorietaraton/117glorietaraton.htm
- WestWeb
Western American history resource. Includes Canadian and Mexican resources.
www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb
- Indian Captivity Narratives
Stories of Americans and Mexicans captured by Native Americans.
oldbooksonline.com
- Harvey Houses: Civilizing the Old West
Continuing the memory of the Fred Harvey Company and its restaurants, hotels, and lunchrooms built along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway.
www.harveyhouses.net
- Gunfight at the OK Corral (4)
Examines the famous 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp, Morgan and Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday against the Clantons and McLaurys.
dir.yahoo.com/.../American_West/Gunfight_at_the_OK_Corral
- Treaty With the Potawatami, 1828
From the Avalon Project at the Law School of Law.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/pot1828.htm
- Interactive Santa Fe Trail
Thanks to the Internet, winter snows, summer rains, and night won't stop you from exploring the Santa Fe Trail.
www.kansasheritage.org/research/sft
- Overland Trail
Established by Ben Holladay in 1862 as a mail and stage coach route from Julesburg Colorado to Fort Bridger Wyoming.
www.over-land.com
- Women of the West
Annotated directory.
www.over-land.com/westpers2.html
- CyberSoup's The Wild West
Learn about western legends like Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Soldiers, The Alamo, Native Americans, and Native American culture.
www.thewildwest.org
- Scalp Hunters, The
Designed to be a supplement to Henry Nash Smith's "Virgin Land."
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Scalpin/apaches.html
- Frontier in American History, The
Collected essays of Frederick Jackson Turner.
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/title.html
- Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
History, traditions, tools, and mode of living of the trappers, explorers, and traders known as the Mountain Men.
www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html
- Old West Wax Museum
American West frontier history, folk arts, and culture museum complex. Hands-on kid-friendly activities, demonstrations, classes.
www.westwaxmuseum.com
- Pony Express (5)
Provides an overview of the Pony Express, the first fast mail service to cross the North America continent. Includes sites on its founding, brief history in operation, and Pony Express museums.
dir.yahoo.com/.../American_West/Pony_Express
- Denver Public Library: History of the American West
Photographs which illuminate the history of the American West between 1860 and 1920. The collection illustrates Colorado towns, landscape, history, and lives of the natives.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml
- Western Historical Quarterly, The
Promotes the study of the North American West in its varied aspects and broadest sense. Official journal of the Western History Association.
www.usu.edu/history/whq
- Old West
Defined loosely as the legend and reality of 19th Century America west of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. From Dakota State University.
homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/oldwest/oldwest.htm
- Sidney Heitman Germans from Russia Collection
Covers the story of the assimilation and influence of Germans from Russia in Colorado. Includes oral histories, photo galleries, and maps.
lib.colostate.edu/gfr
|
Help us improve the Yahoo! Directory - Share your ideas