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.

PEOPLE A-C D-H I-R S-Z This interactive biographical dictionary provides concise profiles of the men and women featured in THE WEST, as well as information about many individuals who are mentioned only in passing. In most cases, the profiles offer additional details about the lives of these historical figures, together with some comment on their significance for historians. Click on a name below ...

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.

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 ...

Web de Anza provides students and scholars with primary source documents and multimedia resources covering Juan Bautista de Anza's two overland expeditions from the Sonoran desert to northern California, leading to the colonization of San Francisco in 1776.

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 ...

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.

Welcome Traveler! To the World Wide Web camp of the Utah Crossroads Chapter, Oregon-California Trails Association. Our organization is dedicated to preserving, studying and marking the long-distance historic trails within our own state and others in the West. We are fascinated by the people that preceded us here and the ways and means by which they arrived. Our members are prolific in preparing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Contains new information about the Donner Party and its members.

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

Gift Shop History Local Links Location Virtual Tour Pumpkinfest Holiday Tin Ordering Information ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ghost towns - California - Mojave Desert ...

Welcome Explorers! Its time to get up off your arrastre and go on another adventure; hiking, caving, mountain biking, 4Wheeling, and exploring old Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of California & Nevada. So lets gather up our supplies (beans, soda & candy) and head down an old stage road, to a time of no computers, TV, or yuppies in SUV's. SAY WHAT!, why didn't you GO when we were at the gas station 2 ...

The Cabildo - Two Hundred Years of Louisiana History - Colonization through Reconstruction. ...

USA-project, essays-area, Manifest Destiny ...

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 ...

Pony Express Historical Association Owners and Operators of the Patee House Museum and Jesse James Home Main Menu Volunteer Activities Membership Information Museum Store Locating the Museums About the Museums Patee House Museum The Jesse James Home Pony Express Historical Association 12th and Penn Box 1022 St. Joseph, MO 64502 Phone/Fax (816) 232-8206 &copy 1997 Pony Express Historical ...

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, ...

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 ...

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! ...

Fort Scott National Historic Site MANIFEST DESTINY: THE DRAGOON EXPEDITIONS (1843-45) NPS Homepage Fort Scott NHS Home Page History Page In the 1840s, westward expansion proceeded at a rapid pace. Promises of wide-open spaces and inexpensive land with rich soil enticed many people in the East to pack up their possessions and head West. As the population of Americans on the West Coast increased, ...

The Treaty of the Louisiana Purchase Jefferson Acts To Expand The Nation Largest Single Land Purchase in U.S. History In 1803 the United States negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. With a stroke of a pen America doubled in size, making it one of the largest nations in the world. The sale included over 600 million acres at a cost of less than 3 cents an ...

Pictures of ghost towns and historic places in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Utah. Picture gallery, driving directions, historic information, maps.

Outlaws, Lawmen and Gunmen - Photos, bio's, wanted posters and books of the old west ...

Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop This is the first word to reach San Francisco of the great human disaster later known as the Donner Party. It was published in the California Star shortly after a rescue party left Sutters Fort to search for survivors in the Sierra. Early History of California Early History of San Francisco Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California, by ...

Orphan Trains From about 1850 through the early twentieth century, thousands of children were transfered from the overcrowded orphanages and homes in the large cities in the northeastern United States, to live with families on farms throughout the middle West. The name orphan train originates with the railroad trains that transported the children to their new homes. While some of the children ...

John Wesley, Methodism's founder, was appalled by the atrocities Europeans committed against Native Americans. He poured out his moral outrage on European Christians, including the English colonists. In his sermon ...

History of the Western Frontier during the Indian Wars of the 1800's.

Expansionism & Manifest Destiny Emmanuel Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire (1861). I. Background of U.S. Foreign Policy A. Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality and Farewell Address ( avoid entangling alliances ) B. Jefferson's frustrations with the Tripolitan pirates (1801-1804) C. Monroe Doctrine (1823) signaling America's emergence as a power strong enough to prevent European meddling ...

Beckwourth Trail The War Horse Ranch was the first the emigrant met in reaching the Golden State, and money or no money, it was open to all who passed. Please use your back button to return to the previous screen. The Beckwourth Trail originated from The California Trail, a system of wagon roads and pack trails used by the emigrants of 1841 and later as they forged their way to California. The ...

Cherokee Bill This is as good a day to die as any. Cherokee Bill, March 17, 1896, as he stepped into the courtyard at Fort Smith and saw the gallows. Crawford Goldsby (a.k.a. Cherokee Bill) was born at Fort Concho, Texas, on Feb. 8, 1876. One of my source has Bill being of mixed blood, being part white , Hispanic, and black. Another source has reported to me that Bill was of African, European ...

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The Texas Rangers With origins dating to the earliest days of Anglo settlement in Texas, the Texas Rangers form the oldest law-enforcement agency in North America with statewide jurisdiction. They often have been compared to four other world-famous agencies: the FBI, Scotland Yard, Interpol and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Scores of books, from well-researched works of non-fiction to Wild ...

Biography of one of the deadliest outlaw gunslingers of the old West.

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 ...

More legends Isaac Hanging Judge Parker (1838-1896) Isaac Charles Parker was born in Ohio and in 1859 he graduated from lawschool. Later that year he moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, opened up his own business and met his wife to be. In 1868 Parker was appointed judge, a post he held onto until he was elected to the Congress two years later. Parker ended his political career in 1875, and before ...

Genealogy of the outlaw Oliver Yantis ...