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• - Provides information on chuck-wagon lore, western music, cowboy stories, recipes and historical tidbits.
  
• - Compilation of the Kansas Heritage Sites covering a broad range of topics dealing with the American West and more specifically with the history of Kansas.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Information about this association which exists to promote the study of the North American West in all its varied aspects and in its broadest sense.
  
• - A collection of United States history research links.
  
• - List of resources on historical, cultural, social, technological, and other aspects of the Old West.
  
• - Provides links to primary sources of historical materials relating to the history of the Western United States.
  
• - Provides information on the history and development of the American West.
  
• - Photos from 1860-1920 from the collection of the Denver Public Library, searchable index by keyword, subject or name.
  
• - Provides historic information on cowboys and frontier life in North and South America.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Takes a look back at frontier cuisine in the 1800's, including holiday dishes and cooking and frontier links.
  
• - 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 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.
  
• - Information on the beaver hat, which set in motion forces and events of significance for the opening of the American West.
  
• - Provides online Old West resources (links) about Gold Rush history, overland trails, and Old West lore and legend.
  
• - WOLA is an educational organization devoted to the history of the Old West.
  
• - Collection of articles and research links about the history of America's West from Virtualology.com.
  
• - Provides information on cowboys, gunfighters, and the history of Swedish emigration to North America.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A topically-organized collection of resources of use to those studying Western American history.
  
• - Presenting pioneer and homesteader sod houses, dug-outs and memories, c.1880 - 1999. Includes pictures of rebuilt and current houses.
  
• - Provides information on the history of the American West along with photos and links to other Old West related sites.
  
• - Daily article about a birthday or major event on that day related to the American West.
  
• - Acts of bravery, mean deeds, the pioneers' struggles, gold seekers, Indian battles, railroad barons, all headlines from early news papers.
  
• - Of all the incidents in recent American Indian history, the Ghost Dance of 1890 is probably without equal in evocative power.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Covers 19th century America, west of the Rocky Mountains; including events, personalities, and the growth of towns from this period in US history.
  
• - A time line showing the Nations efforts at conservation in the American West. The people and the places in pictures and biographies.
  
• - Period photos and description of the impact of the Depression on the West.
  
• - A collection of American western history web sites for the use of college students.