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An Annotated List of the Most Valuable
Online Resources on Westward
Expansion
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NATIVE
AMERICANS, REMOVAL, AND RESISTANCE
WESTWARD
EXPANSION
- The
Donner Party
http://members.aol.com/danmrosen/donner/index.htm
A daily
log of the Donner Party's journey, including diary entries for each
day, and quotes from original sources and histories.
- The
End of the Oregon Trail
http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/index.html
This site contains a primer on the
history of the Oregon trail; an
Oregon Trail chronology, a Timeline
of black history in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest; a discussion
of
Slavery in the Oregon Country and an explanation of the
exclusion laws ; and biographical sketches of
black pioneers and settlers in the Northwest
- The
Gold Rush in San Francisco
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/index0.1.html#gold
Links to documents, images, chronologies, and articles related to
the California Gold Rush created by the Museum of the City of San
Francisco.
- Images
of the West
http://gowest.coalliance.org/
This site
contains a selection of 65,000, historic photographs from the collections
of the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department
and the Colorado Historical Society, including images Native Americans,
pioneers, early railroads, mining, Denver and Colorado towns. Notable
collections depict Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, the Clarence Moreledge
photographs at Wounded Knee, and the Charles S. Lillybridge collection
which depicts daily life in Denver around the turn of the century.
Click here to see a list of
photographers and
subjects.
- Lewis
and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
The
companion site to the PBS series contains a time line, journals
from the expedition, historians reflections on the expedition, information
on the Indian peoples that the expedition encountered, and lesson
plans and activities.
- Mountain
Men and the Fur Trade
http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html
An on-line Research Center devoted to the history, traditions, tools,
and mode of living, of the trappers, explorers, and traders, it
contains diaries, letters, narratives, business records, maps, images,
and art works relating to the Mountain Men during the years 1800-1850
- New
Perspectives on the West
http://www3.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
Companion
site to the television documentary, The West. This site includes:
Events in THE WEST, an interactive timeline tracing events from
pre-Columbian times to the early twentieth century;
Places inTHE WEST, an interactive map covering the territory
and the times;
People inTHE WEST, an interactive biographical dictionary of
historical figures; and
Archives of THE WEST, documentary materials including memoirs,
journals, letters, photos and transcripts
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