Society History By Region North America United States West
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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.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
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» 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.
http://www.pinedale.com/misc/settlement.shtml
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» American West 
Collection of articles and research links about the history of America's West from Virtualology.com.
http://virtualology.com/americanwest/
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» 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
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» 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/%7Ehistgaz/index.shtml
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» 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
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» 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
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» 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
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» Jimmy Camp 
A historic campground along the Cherokee Trail in Colorado. Named after Jimmy Daugherty it was used by 19th century trappers, gold seekers, settlers, coalminers and ranchers.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/4707
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» Lone Hand Western 
Provides information on chuck-wagon lore, western music, cowboy stories, recipes and historical tidbits.
http://lonehand.com
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» 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
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» 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.
http://www.ukans.edu/heritage/old_west/old_west.html
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» 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.system.missouri.edu/whmc/tl-pioneer.html
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» Sod Houses 
Presenting pioneer and homesteader sod houses, dug-outs and memories, c.1880 - 1999. Includes pictures of rebuilt and current houses.
http://websteader.com/wbstdsd1.htm
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» 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
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» The Lazy S Ranch 
Provides historic information on cowboys and frontier life in North and South America.
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/
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» 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/
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» 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
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» 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/
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» 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.
http://gowest.coalliance.org/
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» 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/uprr/ffh/history/
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» 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
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» 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.unm.edu/~wha/index.html
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» Westward Expansion 
A collection of United States history research links.
http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/westexp.html
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» Wild West 
Provides information on cowboys, gunfighters, and the history of Swedish emigration to North America.
http://hem.passagen.se/wild_west/
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Dieses Verzeichnis basiert auf dem Open Directory Project ergänzt und modifiziert durch informa-24.de
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