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- New Perspectives on The West Companion site to Ken Burns' program about the American West featuring an interactive timeline, maps, and archived primary source materials.
- The Wild West Information on the outlaws, lawmen, women, and towns of the Old West.
- Bibliographic Essay on the African American West The U.S. Park Service provides this essay by Quintard Taylor where he addresses African American history in the West.
- Abandoned Ghost Towns of the West Pictures and information about abandoned ghost towns, mining camps, mines and graveyards.
- Union Pacific Rail Road-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.
- The Lazy S Ranch Provides historic information on cowboys and frontier life in North and South America.
- Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance Of all the incidents in recent American Indian history, the Ghost Dance of 1890 is probably without equal in evocative power.
- Old West Kansas Compilation of the Kansas Heritage Sites covering a broad range of topics dealing with the American West and more specifically with the history of Kansas.
- WestWeb A topically-organized collection of resources of use to those studying Western American history.
- Pioneer & Frontier Life Provides letters, diaries, and other papers associated with the expansion westward and daily life on the frontier in the U.S.
- Conservation Chronology 1847-1871 A time line showing the Nations efforts at conservation in the American West. The people and the places in pictures and biographies.
- Historical Gazette Acts of bravery, mean deeds, the pioneers' struggles, gold seekers, Indian battles, railroad barons, all headlines from early news papers.
- The Dawes Act or General Allotment Act of 1887 Complete text of the Dawes Act, an act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations.
- Wild West Provides information on cowboys, gunfighters, the history of Swedish emigration to North America, and more.
- Jimmy Camp A historic campground along the Cherokee Trail in what is now central Colorado. Named for the legendary Jimmy Daugherty, used by 19th century trappers, gold seekers, settlers, coalminers and ranchers.
- The Depression Years (1929-1940) Period photos and description of the impact of the Depression on the West.
- Old West Library Publishers of first-person accounts (primary sources) of the history of the Old West.
- Jim Janke's Old West List of resources on historical, cultural, social, technological, and other aspects of the Old West.
- Early West History Provides a collection of links to sites about the history of the American West.
- Repositories of Primary Sources: Western United States and Canada Provides links to primary sources of historical materials relating to the history of the Western United States.
- The History of the Upper Midwest 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.
- History Buff - Listing of "Old West History" Articles Discovery.com provides articles on the history of the Old West on selected topics from the time period.
- American West Collection of articles and research links about the history of America's West from Virtualology.com.
- America's West - Development & History Provides information on the history and development of the American West.
- Old West Links - How the West Tamed America Provides online Old West resources (links) about Gold Rush history, overland trails, and Old West lore and legend.
- Ghost Town Gallery.com Maps and photos of ghost towns and mining camps.
- The National Festival of the West The country's largest celebration of the Old West and the American cowboy, held annually.
- Expansion of America Westward Brief history of the United States expansion westward throughout the first half of the nineteenth century.
- The Old West: America's Frontier Provides information on the history of the American West along with photos and links to other Old West related sites.
- Lone Hand Western Provides information on chuck-wagon lore, western music, cowboy stories, recipes and historical tidbits.
- Westward Expansion A collection of United States history research links.
- Department of Dakota Factual data about the Military Department of Dakota containing troop rosters, a gazeteer of locations within the department, information about military operations from the 1870s.
- Turner: The Frontier In American History Classic by Frederick Jackson Turner: The significance of the frontier in American History reprinted online.
- Academic Info: History of the American West An annotated directory of Internet resources on the history of the American West.
- Web de Anza Provides visitors with documents and multimedia resources covering Juan Bautista de Anza's two overland expeditions from the Sonoran Desert to northern California.
- History Channel: This Day in Old West History Daily article about a birthday or major event on that day related to the American West.
- Western History Association 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.
- History of the American West Photos from 1860-1920 from the collection of the Denver Public Library, searchable index by keyword, subject or name.
- The Western History Photography Collection The Denver Public Library collection of more than 500,000 photographs related to the history of the American West with over 50,000 of these images on the Internet.
- Sod Houses Presenting pioneer and homesteader sod houses, dug-outs and memories, c.1880 - 1999. Includes pictures of rebuilt and current houses.
- Southwest Explorations Overviews and maps of several expeditions that opened Arizona and the American West.
- A Hat Fashions the Settlement of the West Information on the beaver hat, which set in motion forces and events of significance for the opening of the American West.
- Voices From the Western Frontier Documents and newspapers preserved by a Lakota family, with searchable transcriptions, photographs and audio recordings. A history of the frontier and western states, the Indian Wars, and genealogical research.
- Meeting of Frontiers 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.
- The American West Frontier History A collection of American western history web sites for the use of college students.
- The Northern Great Plains (1880-1920) 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.
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