Documents of the Glided Age

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Closing the Western Frontier

• The Architecture of the West
• As Some Things Appear on the Plains and Among the Rockies in Mid-Summer
• Beef and Beans
• California: For Health, Pleasure and Residence
• The Extermination of the American Bison
• Frontier Justice
• I Will Go West
• Indian and Oklahoma Territories

The Growth of Cities

• Ben Dickstein
• The Ginsbergs
• Harry Reece (Daca) . . . His Story
• Mr. Paul's Story
• Mapping Population Growth in Chicago, 1850-1900
• Urban and Suburban Living
• Vertical Growth of the American City
• Industrial Cities

Rural Life

• Don't Leave the Farm Boys
• Home Remedies
• House Calls
• North Dakota in the 1890s - A Photo Collage
• People Were Frugal
• Rural Life in the 1870s
• Shaken Loose and Moving

The Railroads

• The Great Railroad Strike of 1894
• Railroad Building in Texas
• Working on the Central Missouri Pacific Railroad
• Railroad Land Grants
• Building the Transcontinental Railroad
• Spanning the Nation

Labor

• Circus Days and Ways
• Connecticut Clock Maker
• George Estes and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers
• Impact of Machinery on Making Shoes
• Interview with Miss D.
• Piece Work in the Knife Factory
• The Trade Union Woman
• The Workers' Anvil