THE WEST offers the opportunity to take a guided tour through the history of the American West, following in the footsteps of filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives, or to strike out across this historical landscape on one's own.

The History and Development of the American West. Cowboys and Indians, Cody, western information, western products ...

The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections. 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century, including sod houses, farms, agricultural machinery, and one-room schools. The original collections are housed at the Institute for Regional Studies, located at North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D.

Denver Public Library Search by Keyword | Browse the Subject Index | Name Index 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 ...

English | Russian Ai e e e e | e e About the Project 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. It is intended for use ...

True Stories of the American West Acts of Bravery, Mean Deeds, Pioneer Struggles, Gold Seekers, Indian Battles, Railroad Barons. . . Historic Headlines - Our Title List Oregon Trail the Westward migration. Pacific NW Maritime Sensational stories. Wheat settled the Pacific NW. Portland Union Station 1896-1996 Oregon mining camps & historical reports on gold mining. Big Bonanza Dan Dequille ...

Western United States and Canada Additional Links Alaska Alaska State Archives Alaska State Library. Alaska Historical Collections Anchorage Museum of History and Art Denali National Park and Preserve Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Kenai Fjords National Park Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Lake Clark National Park and Reserve ...

An annotated directory of the best Internet resources on the history of the American West.

A collection of resources of use to those studying Western American history. Categories include Western ancient peoples, Western Native Americans, Western Spanish borderlands, the Canadian West, European empires and expansion in the West, Western environment, Western spaces, the Frontier, women in the West, gender and sexuality in the West, Western culture, Asians in the West, Chicanos in the ...

Documentary Chronology of Selected Events in the Development of the American Conservation Movement, 1847-1920 1847-1871 | 1872-1889 | 1890-1900 | 1901-1907 | 1908-1911 | 1912-1920 The harvest moon, Currier & Ives. LC-USZC2-3259 Conservation Home Page 1847 George Perkins Marsh, then a U.S. Congressman from Vermont, delivers a seminal speech to the Agricultural Society of Rutland County, Vermont, ...

This topic covers 19th century America, west of the Rocky Mountains. Events, personalities, and the growth of towns from this colorful time will be described. Meet all your favorite characters such as Wyatt Earp, Lewis and Clark, and Geronimo. - dewey decimal 978.02 ...

Pioneering the Upper Midwest Home Page Table of Contents 1. The Lay of the Land 2. The Indians at the Time of Contact, 1600-1850 3. The French Lead the Way: c. 1500-1763 4. The British Take and Lose Control, 1763-1812 5. The Northwest and the Ordinances, 1783-1858 6. The Yankee Empire, 1820-1890 7. The Pineries (1820-1900) and the Mines (1850-) 8. American But More So by Clarence Mondale, ...

OldWestHistory.Net Home Andrew J. Russell Photo. From Time's EYEWITNESS Clantons & McLaurys Painting by Joe Hahn G.S. McLelland Collection Don't Forget to Bookmark! ...

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THE DEPRESSION YEARS1929-1940 Joan Shaw A familiar sight during the 1930s--a WPA crew, this one excavating for and laying 8 tile for the Newton drainage project During the Great Depression that lasted from the fall of 1929 to the early years of World War II, qualified mechanics, engineers, and teachers were traveling the nation along with common laborers in a desperate search for work. Any kind ...