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American West Resources
Look here for resources that are discussed during the workshops. If you have websites or another resource to recommend to the participants please email us at grant-history@udel.edu.

Links

• WWW Virtual Library - American Indians:  Index of Native American Resources on the Internet - www.hanksville.org/NAresources
  This site is constructed primarily to provide information resources to the Native American community and only secondarily to the general community. The information is organized, insofar as possible, to make it useful to the Native American community and the education community. The information presented here is the product of much cooperative work. It would be impossible to maintain this list without the email from the hundreds of people who send me updates to their URLs and report new sites. This email is crucial to the operation of this index. The list of "don'ts" given below is simply to make the sorting through of my email a less difficult task. Please do not stop sending me this crucial information.
• PBS’ New Perspectives on the West -
  www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/ - great images, maps, lesson plans and quizzes; resources used in making “The West”
  www.pbs.org/goldrush/  - Some great pages on this website – Check out “Fun Facts” and “Teacher Resources” (which has links to other great sites)
• History of the American West – from American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html -
  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 in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than fortytribes living west of the Mississippi River.
• Photographers - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/biog.html(includes a lantern slide show)
• Trails to Utah & the Pacific – Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869  -
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/overhome.html – Great maps and essays; check out “categories of materials” for diaries, images, trail guides and more.
• California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the ‘30’s - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html - see “Audio titles” link – site includes links to photos and other resources
• American Memory Homepage – from the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
• Photos West Classics – photography collection of west photos – (good for transparencies) http://photoswest.org/exhib/faves/faves.htm
  Includes Native American Women photos - http://photoswest.org/exhib/gallery4/leadin.htm
• Autry National Center - http://www.autrynationalcenter.org/collections/  includes a postcard collection that can be sized.
• Transcontinental Railroad – www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr -
  excellent timeline, photo gallery, and check out the teacher resources (divided into history, geography, economics and civics)
• The American West – www.americanwest.com –
  Appears to be a personal site; has some interesting links, i.e. www.earlyamerica.com
• Eyewitness to History – www.eyewitnesstohistory.com –
  Check the link to “Old West” and “Index” – Some good essays and photos if you can ignore all the ads
• University of Colorado – Department of History - http://web.uccs.edu/history/ushistory/index.html -
  Check the link to “The West” – nice collection of links
• The Denver Library: Western History/Genealogy Department -
  www.denver.lib.co.us/whg Some good photos and diagrams
• The Multicultural American West -
  www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/mw/ Good source of links to other sites
• University of Kansas’ WWW-VL History Network -
  http://www.ku.edu/kansas/west/ -Good source of links to other sites
• Western and Cowboy Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch – www.cowboypoetry.com – some good links to songs
• University of Washington’s Digital Library: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection - http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/ - good essays and a collection of great images
• Eduscapes Native Americans -
  www.42explore.com/native3.htm & www.42explore.com/topic.htm
• Harpers Weekly: Harp Week Presents the American West -
  http://thewest.harpweek.com/TheWestHome.htm - links to images and essays for topics such as buffalo, farming & agriculture, wagon trains, gold, railroads, life on the plains, the frontier and Indians
• National Park Service’s American Southwest -
  http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/amsw - check out the maps
  
• Gold & Silver (1847-1900) –The Gold Rushes of North America (1847-1900) - http://www.calliope.org/gold/gold.html - covers California, Comstock Lode and the Klondike.

  Transportation:

  • Early Railroads - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/transport/railroad.html
  • East St. Louis Action Research Project – Early Railroads - http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ibex/archive/IDOT/idot13.htm
  • American Railroads - http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0860627.html

  Transcontinental Railroad –

  • Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - http://cprr.org/
  • Union Pacific Railroad Archives – photos - http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/photos/carbutt/index.shtml & chronological history - http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/uprr-chr.shtml

  Erie Canal –

  • Engines of Our Ingenuity - http://www.uh.edu/engines/ - see episode 1420 (http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1420.htm)
  • National Canal Museum - http://www.canals.org/ - check out the ‘artifacts’ section

  National Road –

  • Fort Necessity National Battlefield - http://www.nps.gov/fone/natlroad.htm
  • The History Magazine - http://www.history-magazine.com/natroad.html
  • The American West - http://www.americanwest.com/trails/

  Communication:

  Pony Express –

  • Pony Express History -  http://www.ponyexpress.org/history.htm
  • The American West - http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/ponyexp1.htm

    Telegraph –

  • Critical Mass – A History of Modern Telecommunications - http://www.peak.sfu.ca/cmass/issue1/telegraph.html
  • The History of the Telegraph and Telegraphy - http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelegraph.htm

  Cattle/Livestock –

  • Home on the Range – http://www.ku.edu/heritage/old_west/cowboy.html
  • Great Western Cattle Trail - http://www.ku.edu/heritage/kshistory/westerntrail.html
  • History of the American West – American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html

  Land for Crops –

  • National Park Service – Homestead - http://www.nps.gov/home/
  • Homestead Act - http://www.beatricene.com/homestead/history.html
  • PBS’s Frontier House - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/frontierlife/essay1.html
  • National Park Service – The History of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska – The Cattle Range - http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/berkeley/brand1/brand1p.htm

Chinese Exclusion Act:

• Our Documents
  http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=47
• US News
  http://www.usnews.com/usnews/documents/docpages/document_page47.htm

Railroads:

• The Railroad West - http://www.over-land.com/rrwest.html
• Treasures of Congress:  Congress & the American West:
  The Transcontinental Railroad -  http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/treasures_of_congress/page_15.html
• NARA:
  Photographs of the American West, 1861-1912
• University of Washington Libraries – Native American History - http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/native.html

Native American Oral History:

• Traders: Voices from the Trading Post - http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/exhibits/traders/index.html
• Apache Indian Images (American Memory) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/tribes.html#sw