Welcome to The Oregon Trail web site--the award-winning story of the great western journey. Enjoy the adventure! All About the Trail A complete primer on the Oregon Trail. Historic Sites on the Trail From St. Louis to Oregon City, more than two dozen sites to visit. Fantastic Facts about the Oregon Trail Wind-powered wagons. A $100 drink of water. And much more. Trail Archive Full-text of ...

The Autry is devoted to preserving and interpreting the rich history and traditions of the American West. With one of the most comprehensive collections of western history and art, its seven permanent galleries and special exhibitions offer material gathered from the many cultures and events that have shaped the legacy of this vast region.

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

The Overland Trail was established in 1862 by Ben Holladay, the Overland Trail went from Julesburg, Co to Ham's Fork, Wy. Pages describe the route, stations and landmarks, personalities, with many links to other western sites.

The Wild West, learn about American culture in the days of the old west and read about famous cowboys, lawmen and criminals as well as famous American Indians and their life at that time.

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 ...

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. Includes archival materials from the Library of Congress, the National Library ...

Factual information on the Clanton's, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, John Ringo and the famous OK Corral gunfight.

Welcome to the many opportunities in business, entertainment, recreation and tourism found in the Bear Lake Valley!

Ranked among the most remarkable feats to come out of the 1860 American West, the Pony Express was in service from April 1860 to November 1861. Its primary mission was to deliver mail and news between St. Joseph, Missouri, and San Francisco, California.

Calico Ghost Town: This authentic silver mining town lives on as one of the few original mining camps of the Old West.

THE WILD WILD WEST Renegades, Rebels, & Rogues, the words to a popular Country & Western song, is just exactly what the twin territories of Oklahoma and the Indian Nations were full of in the later part of the 19th century. Known as the Robbers Roost, the territories became a safe haven for some of the old west's most desperate villains. With no law west of St. Louis and no God west of Fort ...

Take a step back into the Old West...where men and women were as raw and untamed as the country around them.

Women of the West And Every Day Life Along the Trail Annie Oakley She could shoot the head off a running quail when she was twelve years old. Baby Doe Elizabeth Baby Doe McCourt, lived out one of the most famous success stories, and tragedies, of the gold-rush days. The Ballad of Belle Starr Belle Starr, Belle Starr, With a bullet in your back, Are you lyin' there a-wishin' That you'd never ...

This is the World-Wide Web homepage for the Central Nevada Emigrant Trail Association (CNETA), headquartered in Battle Mountain Nevada. The Central Nevada Emigrant Trails Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the local community and the general public about the history of the Emigrant (or California) Trail across Nevada, through the establishment of an interpretive ...

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Purpose: To provide the fastest mail delivery between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. To draw public attention to the central route in hope of gaining the million dollar government mail contract for the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company. Date: April 3, 1860, to late October 1861. Mechanics: Relay of mail by horses and riders. The Pony Express ran day ...

Prairie Schooners The most common wagons used for hauling freight back East were the Conestogas, developed in Pennsylvania by descendants of Dutch colonists. Conestoga wagons were large, heavy, and had beds shaped somewhat like boats, with angled ends and a floor that sloped to the middle so barrels wouldn't roll out when the wagon was climbing or descending a hill. Like the covered wagons of ...

A history site that provides factual information about Tombstone and characters like Wyatt Earp and John Ringo.

Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop When the Pony Express was in Vogue The early coaches of Wells Fargo consumed twenty days to cross from St. Joseph, Missouri, long considered a great outpost of civilization, to Sacramento. But twenty days to the merchants and bankers of the West Coast seemed an eternity, and so a short time before the beginning of the Civil War, the Pony ...

This website is made possible by the generous support of Idaho Humanities Council, the University of Idaho Library, and the John C. Smith Memorial Fund This website requires Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape 4.0 browers. ...

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Treaty With the Potawatami, 1828 Art 1 Art 2 Art 3 Art 4 Art 5 Art 6 Appendix II Articles of a treaty remade and concluded at the Missionary Establishments upon the St. Joseph, of Lake Michigan, , in the Territory of Michigan., this 20th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, between Lewis lass and Pierre ...

This page is designed to be a supplement to Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land. The work here should not be confused with Smith's thesis; it is an analytical look at one portion of his argument. For further readings on this topic, I would suggest: Richard Slotkin's Regeneration Through Violence, The Fatal Environment, and Gunfighter Nation; Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession; Cormac McCarthy's Blood ...

An authentic old west town in the Texas hill country near Austin, Texas ...

The Frontier In American History Frederick Jackson Turner Click here for larger version and citation Created by Michael W. Kidd, Summer 1996 University of Virginia Department of English 219 Bryan Hall Charlottesville, VA 22903 Last Modified: Tuesday, 30-Sep-97 09:46:49 EDT Another AS Hypertext ...