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.
- http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
History Channel: This Day in Old West History - Daily article about a birthday or major event on that day related to the American West. - http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&categoryId=oldwest
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. - http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/index.shtml
Pioneer & Frontier Life - A collection of letters, diaries, and other papers associated with the expansion westward and daily life on the frontier in the pioneer era U.S. Part of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. - http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/tl-pioneer.html
Settler Communities in the West - Proceedings of a symposium on stewardship of historic and archaeological sites and other cultural resources on Defense Dept. lands in the region. Provides historical background on farms, ranches, mines, transportation systems, and communities. - https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Legacy/Settler/toc.html
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. - http://www.oldwesthistory.net/
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. - http://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/visual5.html
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. - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/cnchron1.html
The Depression Years (1929-1940) - Period photos and description of the impact of the Depression on the West. - http://www.dragongoose.com/LewHisDepression.html
Historical Gazette - Acts of bravery, mean deeds, the pioneers' struggles, gold seekers, Indian battles, railroad barons, all headlines from early news papers. - http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/index.shtml
The Old West - Suite101.com - Covers 19th century America, west of the Rocky Mountains; including events, personalities, and the growth of towns from this period in US history. - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/old_west
History of the American West - Photos from 1860-1920 from the collection of the Denver Public Library, searchable index by keyword, subject or name. - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html
WestWeb - A topically-organized collection of resources of use to those studying Western American history. - http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/noframes/main.html
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. - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umessay0.html
American West - Collection of articles and research links about the history of America's West from Virtualology.com. - http://virtualology.com/americanwest/
Jim Janke's Old West - List of resources on historical, cultural, social, technological, and other aspects of the Old West. - http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/oldwest/oldwest.htm
The Lazy S Ranch - Provides historic information on cowboys and frontier life in North and South America. - http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/
Westward Expansion - A collection of United States history research links. - http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/westexp.html
Wild West - Provides information on cowboys, gunfighters, and the history of Swedish emigration to North America. - http://hem.passagen.se/wild_west/
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. - http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html
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. - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/
Lone Hand Western - Provides information on chuck-wagon lore, western music, cowboy stories, recipes and historical tidbits. - http://lonehand.com