New Perspectives on The West - Companion site to Ken Burns' program about the American West featuring an interactive timeline, maps, and archived primary source materials.
An overview of the history of the upper Midwest including lay of the land, the Indians, the French, the British, the ordinances, the pineries and the mines.
A historic campground along the Cherokee Trail in Colorado. Named after Jimmy Daugherty it was used by 19th century trappers, gold seekers, settlers, coalminers and ranchers.
Tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
Photographs from Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections with 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century.
A collection of letters, diaries, and other papers associated with the expansion westward and daily life on the frontier in the pioneer era U.S. Part of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri.
This is the story of the first transcontinental railroad; the greatest, most daring engineering effort the country had yet seen.The idea was to span the west with iron rails from Omaha to Sacramento.
