- 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.
- A Hat Fashions the Settlement of the West
Information on the beaver hat, which set in motion forces and events of significance for the opening of the American West.
- Academic Info: History of the American West
An annotated directory of Internet resources on the history of the American West.
- America's West - Development & History
Provides information on the history and development of the American West.
- American West
Collection of articles and research links about the history of America's West from Virtualology.com.
- Conservation Chronology 1847-1871
A time line showing the Nations efforts at conservation in the American West. The people and the places in pictures and biographies.
- Cooking Prairie Style
Takes a look back at frontier cuisine in the 1800's, including holiday dishes and cooking and frontier links.
- Department of Dakota
Factual data about the Military Department of Dakota containing troop rosters, a gazeteer of locations within the department, information about military operations from the 1870s.
- Historical Gazette
Acts of bravery, mean deeds, the pioneers' struggles, gold seekers, Indian battles, railroad barons, all headlines from early news papers.
- History Channel: This Day in Old West History
Daily article about a birthday or major event on that day related to the American West.
- History of the American West
Photos from 1860-1920 from the collection of the Denver Public Library, searchable index by keyword, subject or name.
- Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance
Of all the incidents in recent American Indian history, the Ghost Dance of 1890 is probably without equal in evocative power.
- Jim Janke's Old West
List of resources on historical, cultural, social, technological, and other aspects of the Old West.
- Jimmy Camp
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.
- Lone Hand Western
Provides information on chuck-wagon lore, western music, cowboy stories, recipes and historical tidbits.
- Meeting of Frontiers
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.
- Old West Kansas
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.
- Old West Links - How the West Tamed America
Provides online Old West resources (links) about Gold Rush history, overland trails, and Old West lore and legend.
- Pioneer & Frontier Life
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.
- Repositories of Primary Sources: Western United States and Canada
Provides links to primary sources of historical materials relating to the history of the Western United States.
- Sod Houses
Presenting pioneer and homesteader sod houses, dug-outs and memories, c.1880 - 1999. Includes pictures of rebuilt and current houses.
- The American West Frontier History
A collection of American western history web sites for the use of college students.
- The Depression Years (1929-1940)
Period photos and description of the impact of the Depression on the West.
- The History of the Upper Midwest
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.
- The Lazy S Ranch
Provides historic information on cowboys and frontier life in North and South America.
- The Northern Great Plains (1880-1920)
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.
- The Old West - Suite101.com
Covers 19th century America, west of the Rocky Mountains; including events, personalities, and the growth of towns from this period in US history.
- The Old West: America's Frontier
Provides information on the history of the American West along with photos and links to other Old West related sites.
- The Western History Photography Collection
The Denver Public Library collection of more than 500,000 photographs related to the history of the American West with over 50,000 of these images on the Internet.
- Union Pacific Rail Road-History
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.
- Western History Association
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.
- Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association
WOLA is an educational organization devoted to the history of the Old West.
- Westward Expansion
A collection of United States history research links.
- WestWeb
A topically-organized collection of resources of use to those studying Western American history.
- Wild West
Provides information on cowboys, gunfighters, and the history of Swedish emigration to North America.
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