Web Directory

» America's West - Development & History
   Provides information on the history and development of the American West.
   http://www.americanwest.com/

» American West
   Collection of articles and research links about the history of America's West from Virtualology.com.
   http://virtualology.com/americanwest/

» 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

» 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

» 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/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&categoryId=oldwest

» 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

» 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

» 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

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

» 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

» 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://whmc.umsystem.edu/tl-pioneer.html

» 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.
   http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/west.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

» 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

» The Lazy S Ranch
   Provides historic information on cowboys and frontier life in North and South America.
   http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/

» 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/

» 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

» 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/

» 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

» 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

» 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.
   http://www.westernhistoryassociation.org/

» 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/