Directory of West Resources

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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.

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• By State
• Donner Party
• Fur Trade
• Ghost Towns
• Gold Rushes
• Indian Wars
• Louisiana Purchase
• Manifest Destiny
• Military
• OK Corral
• Old West Reenactment
• Orphan Trains
• Overland Trails
• Personalities
• Pony Express
• Publications
• State of Jefferson
• Texas Rangers

Resources in This Category

• Conservation Chronology 1847-1871

  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/cnchron1.html
  A time line showing the Nations efforts at conservation in the American West. The people and the places in pictures and biographies.

• History of the American West

  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html
  Photos from 1860-1920 from the collection of the Denver Public Library, searchable index by keyword, subject or name.

• Jewish Museum of the American West

  http://www.jmaw.org/
  An online museum that tells how and why Jews were successful in creating the basic foundations of the American Wild West.

• Lone Hand Western

  http://lonehand.com/
  Provides information on chuck-wagon lore, western music, cowboy stories, recipes and historical tidbits.

• Meeting of Frontiers

  http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html
  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.

• New Perspectives on The West

  http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
  Companion site to Ken Burns' program about the American West featuring an interactive timeline, maps, and archived primary source materials.

• The Depression Years (1929-1940)

  http://www.dragongoose.com/LewHisDepression.html
  Period photos and description of the impact of the Depression on the West.

• The History of the Upper Midwest

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umessay0.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.

• The Northern Great Plains (1880-1920)

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/
  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.

• Union Pacific Rail Road-History

  http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/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.

• Western History Association

  http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wildapricot.org/
  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.

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