- West, The - PBS Series@
Examines the eight-part PBS documentary series "The West." Includes information to order the shows, a summary of different issues that were addressed by the series, and lesson plans for teachers.
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/West__The
- Mountain Meadows Massacre@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre
- Western Mining History
Reliving the industrial revolution of the West with galleries of historic and modern photographs.
www.westernmininghistory.com
- Donner Party@
Learn about Donner Party, the group of American settlers who, in the 1840s, resorted to cannibalism while emigrating to California. Sites offer background information, chronology, museum archives, pictures, maps of the journey, and film based on the fateful journey across Sierra Nevada.
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Donner_Party
- Lone Hand Western
Traces the history of western expansion. Includes chuck wagon lore, music, cowboy stories, and recipes.
www.lonehand.com
- Meeting of Frontiers
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Library of Congress presentation that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. In English and Russian.
frontiers.loc.gov:8081/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html
- Silver City Ghost Town@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Owyhee_County/Community
- Scalp Hunters, The
Designed to be a supplement to Henry Nash Smith's "Virgin Land."
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Scalpin/apaches.html
- Treaty With the Potawatami, 1828
From the Avalon Project at the Law School of Law.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/pot1828.htm
- Whitman Massacre@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Whitman_Massacre
- History of the American West, 1860-1920
Photographs from Denver Public Library illustrating Colorado towns, landscape, history, and lives of the Native Americans.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml
- Treaty of Greenville@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Indian_Wars/Treaties__Pacts__and_Agreements
- Indian Captivity Narratives
Stories of Americans and Mexicans captured by Native Americans.
oldbooksonline.com
- Frontier in American History, The
Collected essays of Frederick Jackson Turner.
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/title.html
- 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
- City Transformed: Railroads and Their Influence on the Growth of Chicago in the 1850s
Finalist entry in the 1995 Chicago Metro History Fair.
hcs.harvard.edu/~dreyfus/history.html
- 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
- 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
- Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918 :::
Online exhibition of over 450 print advertisements published in local magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets from 1867 to 1918.
content.lib.washington.edu/advertweb/index.html
- Visualizing the West
Promotes scholarship, collaboration, and creativity in research of the cultural representation of the Western U.S. and Canada.
www.wou.edu/visualizingthewest
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