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The American West

http://www.AmericanWest.com/

"A presentation of the history and development of the American West, from the Frontier- and Pioneer days with the Wild West, to today's Modern West."

Author: American West (Webmaster@AmericanWest.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: American History

Buffalo Soldiers & Indian Wars

http://www.buffalosoldier.net/

History of the Buffalo Soldiers. Includes text, photos, and video from the Library of Congress (RealPlayer required). A story in five parts.

Author: Stanford L. Davis (sldavis@inreach.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--African/African-American

Keywords: Buffalo Soldiers

The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier

http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buftoc.html

Provides historical information and images concerning the role of African-Americans on the western frontier. Also includes a comprehensive bibliography of works related to the "Buffalo Soldier."

Author: The International Museum of the Horse (museum@kyhorsepark.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: American History; African-American History

California History Online

http://www.californiahistory.net/

An annotated, scrolling timeline of the history of California. Beginning with a discussion of the physical landscape of the region, the timeline continues, covering the first inhabitants of the California, European exploration and Spanish colonization, Mexican California, the Gold Rush, the railroad era, and the Great Depression.

Author: California Historical Society (ginrikki@msn.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Regional & Country Information--North America--United States--Western

Keywords: California; Gold Rush; Railroads; Golden State

DesertUSA

http://www.desertusa.com/

As "an online travel and adventure guide to the American Southwest, DesertUSA's purpose is to provide a tool for discovery -- a publication which entertains, educates, and explores with our readers, the beauty, life and culture of the North American deserts.

To this end, DesertUSA contains images, stories, movie and audio clips, virtual reality tours and hard data about, virtually any desert-related topic: plants, animals, geology, cultural and natural history, recreation, parks, cities, travel and people."

Author: DesertUSA Magazine

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Travel & Tourism--North America--United States

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Science & Technology--Life Sciences

Keywords: desert; desert travel; Southwest; American Southwest; Native Americans

Ghosts of the Klondike Gold Rush

http://www.gold-rush.org/

"This site has it all: a brief background of the Klondike Gold Rush, a searchable database of records of and by folks who were there, anecdotes, chronologies, and stories that reveal the spirit and people of those difficult times."

Author: Tiger Media (www@tiger.ab.ca)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: Gold Rush

The Great American Gold Rush

http://www.acusd.edu/~jross/goldrush.html

Provides historical information and images of the California gold rush, organized chronologically.

Author: Jennifer Ross (ross@acusd.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: American History

History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html

"Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River. Also included are World War II photographs of the 10th Mountain Division, ski troops based in Colorado who saw action in Italy."

Author: Library of Congress (lcweb@loc.gov)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

HistoryLink

http://www.historylink.org/

"An encyclopedic history of Seattle and nearby communities. Our site contains sourced essays, photo features and a detailed timeline of regional history. New info is added to our databases almost daily." The site also features maps and historical documents and anecdotal "people's history."

Author: History Ink (admin@historylink.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: Seattle; Washington

Meeting of Frontiers

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

"Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library 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." Maps, photographs, and original manuscripts are provided.

Author: Library of Congress (lcweb@loc.gov)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--Asia

Arts & Humanities--History--Europe

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: Russia; Siberia

Mountain Men and the Fur Trade

http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html

Here you can find sources of history relating to the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West. Sources include diaries, narratives, letters, images and more.

Author: Dean Rudy (http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/webemail.html)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: American History

The Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers

http://www.TerrysTexasRangers.org/

this site contains information on Texas Rangers. "The information on these pages comes from a wide variety of sources, and should be useful to the genealogist, historian, and reenactor. It should be interesting and informative to the casual passerby as well."

Author:

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: texas; rangers; civil war;

The Oregon Trail

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

The "Oregon Trail web site is based on the award-winning documentary film aired nationally on PBS stations." You can read about the history of the Oregon Trail and the historic sites located along it.

Author: Michael Trinklein (mike1281@micron.net)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: Western History; American History

The Overland Trail

http://www.over-land.com/

Describes how and why the Overland Trail began in 1862 and how it came to and end. Other information on stations, stops, landmarks, personalities is also included.

Author: Elizabeth Larson (lizabeth@over-land.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: American History; Western Trails

The Photography Collection - Western History / Genealogy Department - at The Denver Public Library

http://gowest.coalliance.org/

"Our on-line database contains a selection of historic photographs from the collections of the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department and the Colorado Historical Society. These collections, which contain more than one million items, document the history of Colorado and the American West. Our on-line database contains some 80,000 images and catalog records of Native Americans, pioneers, early railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns."

Author: Colorado Historical Society

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Social Issues Collection

http://content.lib.washington.edu/Socialweb/

"The Social Issues Collection is an ongoing database of historial images from the Western United States and the Pacific Northwest region. The collection covers political and social topics such as women's issues, labor and government, as well as ethnic groups."

Author: Washington University Libraries (roxanna-herrick@library.wustl.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Social Sciences--Social Issues and Social Welfare

Texas Treasures

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/index.html

Online exhibition of Texas history. Biographies of famous Texans, descriptions of periods of Texas history, and digitized images from the archival collection.

Author: Texas State Library & Archives Commission (treasures@tsl.state.tx.us)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Regional & Country Information--North America--United States--Southwestern

Keywords: Texas

The West

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/

Here you can tour the West or explore the people, places, and events that made the West famous. It also includes an archive of western documentary materials.

Author: The West Film Project (thewest@pbs.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

Keywords: American History

Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/

"This selection of items from Mystic Seaport's archival collections includes logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers, and published narratives of voyages and travels. The unique maritime perspective of these materials offers a rich look at the events, culture, beliefs, and personal experiences associated with the settlement of California, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest. A number of photographs, paintings, maps, and nautical charts are also included to illustrate the story of Americans’ western seaborne travel. Various themes are touched upon, including whaling, life at sea, shipping, women at sea, and native populations."

Author: Library of Congress (lcweb@loc.gov)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States--American West

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