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American West Reference

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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--United States--American West

Keywords: American History

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: HorseWorld (cmckee@mis.net)

Subjects:

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

Keywords: American History; African-American History

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--United States and Canada

Sciences & Technology--Biological Sciences

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

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--United States--American West

Keywords: Gold Rush

The Great American Gold Rush

http://pwa.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--United States--American West

Keywords: American History

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--United States--American West

Keywords: Seattle; Washington

Lewis & Clark Expedition

http://www.vpds.wsu.edu/WAHistCult/trail.html

Here you can read the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It is also a good source of links to Lewis and Clark sites on the Internet.

Author: Washington State University (fleisher@wsu.edu)

Subjects:

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

Keywords: American History; Western History

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 (MoF@loc.gov.)

Subjects:

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

Arts & Humanities--History--Asia

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--United States--American West

Keywords: American History

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--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--United States--American West

Keywords: American History; Western Trails

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: West Film Project and WETA (thewest@pbs.org)

Subjects:

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

Keywords: American History

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