 WestWeb: Western History Resource -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 West, African-Americans in the West, Western Military history, cowboys, mining and extraction. religion, political history, settlement and expansion, economic history, surveying and exploration, mapping, transportation history, towns and communities, european immigration and ethnicity, atomics in the West, agriculture, mariculture and fur industries, and teaching Western history.
America's West - Development & History -The History and Development of the American West. Cowboys and Indians, Cody, western information, western products
Transcontinental Railroad: Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum -Central Pacific Railroad construction in the 1860's. Stereoviews, engravings, maps, and documents are treasures of western Americana that illustrate the history of the first transcontinental railroad, built from Sacramento, California over the Sierra Nevada mountains, the to end of track at the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory, Utah where the rails were joined on May 10, 1869 with the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha, Nebraska. CPRR stereograph images by Alfred A. Hart, A. J. Russell, Houseworth, Muybridge, Reilly, Savage, Watkins, and Anthony picture locomotives, snowplows, trains, scenery, bridges, tunnels, and snowsheds.
Outlaws, Gun Fighters, Lawmen, Gunfighters, Lawman, -Outlaws, Gun Fighters, Gunfighters, Lawmen, Lawman, gun fighters, gunfighters, lawmen, outlaws, lawman
Key Dates - American West's Expansion -THE EXPANSION OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Famous Pioneer Towns, Forts & Places -Famous Pioneer Towns, Forts and Places
PBS - New Perspectives on THE WEST -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.
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