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Books on the American West

American West Topical Index

*Agriculture *Battles *Books, Magazines
*Buffalo *Business *Cattle *Cattle Towns
*Civil War *Collectibles *Communication
*Commerce *Conservation *Cook Book Recipes
*Ecology, Geology, and Wild Life *Economics
*Email Lists *Family Life *Forums
*Frontier Government & Law *Fur Trade
*Gambling *Gold Rushes and Mining *Gunfighters
*Historical Associations, Societies *Journals
*Homesteading, Public Lands * Other Indexes
*Libraries *Livestock *Locations
*Maps *Media *Military
*Missions *Movies *Museums & Old West Reenactors
*Newsletters *Newspapers *On-Line Books, Documents
*People *Photos *Presidential Administrations
*Railroads *Religion *Revivals
*Rivers *Stagecoaches *States
*Trading *Trails *Transportation
*Travel *Treaties, Ordinances *Wars

USA Centennials, Sesquicentenials, Bicentennials, more
[US States by date of statehood]

50 Years Ago (2009):
EVENTS: * 1959 * 1960 * 1961 * 1962 * 1963 * 1964
1959: * Alaska (Jan 3) statehood and * Hawaii (Aug 21): statehood

100 Years Ago:
EVENTS: * 1910 * 1911 * 1912 * 1913 * 1914
1912: New Mexico (Jan 6) and Arizona (Feb 14)

150 Years Ago (2011) sesquicentennial:
EVENTS: * 1859 * 1860 * 1861 * 1862 * 1863 * 1864
1859: * Oregon genealogy * Oregon150 history
1861: * KansasHeritage history * Kansas genealogy
1861-65: * 150th Anniversary of the Civil War
    iPhone battle apps | This day in the Civil War
    * Missouri | Wilson's Creek map
    * Kansas | Bloody KS slideshow | More...
    Facebook: MO Life Civil War 150 | KS 150

1863: * West Virginia (June 20)
1864: * Nevada (Oct 31)

200 Years Ago:
EVENTS: * 1810 * 1811 * 1812 * 1813 * 1814
* 1811: Oregon Territory | Oregon Trail, Joseph Gaston
* 1812: Louisiana (Apr 30)

America Western Expansion Lesson Plans

*Teacher guides such as
Best on the Web for Teachers | Exploring the West

Featured song:
Little Old Sod Shanty On My Claim, c. 1865 , homesteading on the plains

 
Research and Reference Tools
Doing Research | Other American West indexes | Library of Congress American Memory: historical collections for the National Digital Library | Making of America Project | New Perspectives on the West (PBS) | North American History | Old West Kansas | The Spire Project (Serious Help with Serious Research) | Teacher guides | WebRings | Tour The West (PBS) | Questia Research Library and topical index

Native Americans

1805: Nez Perce met Lewis & Clark in what is now Idaho

American Indian Resources | Native American Bibliography | Native American Timeline | History, Genealogy | Prairie Band Potawatomi Language | Wyandotte County KS | more...

Hispanic History of North America | Hispanic - Latino History, Genealogy | Causes of the Mexican-American War
BOOK: The Latino Wave, Jorge Ramos - Amazon.com "In his writings, Tocqueville debunked the myth that European immigrants of the time were settling in the frontier wilderness. Of course they weren't. Those newly arrived established themselves primarily along the eastern seaboard, where industries already existed that required their work. Populating the West was a rich man's adventure..." (p38)

US Grants * By state and territories * Searches

International Views of the American West
GERMAN: Karl Friedrich May, author | Lawmen Association | Der Wilde Westen | German-American Historic Sites and Museums | Wild West, Das Vierte TV
FRENCH: Wild West: Indiens, Cowboys, Cheval | Western : les grandes étapes | Laupi's Country Corner
JAPAN: Frontier Spirits
UK: Old West Living History |

American West Timelines: Chronological and Topical

Colonial Period | Revolutionary Era | Revolution-Reconstruction (Hypertext on American History) | Constitutional Period | New Nation 1790-1828 | Age of Jackson 1830-1855 | Coming of the Civil War 1850-1860 | Western Expansion and Reform | Civil War 1861-1865 | Reconstruction 1865-1880 | Gilded Age 1876-1900 | Progressive Era | 1900s | Imperialism | US Agricultural History |

The Constitution of the United States of America

Explaining the Manifest Destiny
Causes of the Mexican-American War, azteca.net

Geographical

Northwest Territory | Old Southwest | Upper Midwest | Northeast | Southwest | Plains | Rockies | Oregon Territory | West coast | Pioneer Trails | Changing boundaries animated map 1650-1907 | westward travel today

Where the Old West Begins

*Kansas Heritage * Kansas History *Go Wyld - Wild West Wyoming *Oregon Trail History *Overland Trail History * Santa Fe Trail History

More Old West Dates

1803: Ohio 1803: Louisiana Purchase Oct 20: purchase ratified | Franco-American Diplomacy, 1778-1843
Louisiana State Museum | Map
1804: Jim Bridger born 1804-1806: Lewis and Clark, 2004-2006

World events 250 Years Ago: (wikipedia.org)
* 1760 * 1761 * 1762 * 1763 * 1764 * 1765 * 1766 * 1767 * 1768 * 1769 * 1770

Test Your American West Knowledge:E Pluribus Unim
Place the State map game
Quizes at America's Story and American history quizzes
The West - Games & Quizzes
History Quiz-Games like "Teacher Walks the Plank"
President games like Name the president

* The E Pluribus Unum Project
* Great Seal Mottoes
* Out of Many, One -- Or Chaos, Baldacchino
* Wikipedia

Interactive sites:
* Find eagles in the White House * Explore "Deadwood City" in The Legend of Calamity Jane, aussi en francais
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To suggest a link, please use "Westward" in your subject.

This American West index was created and maintained by Dr. Lynn H. Nelson (University of Kansas), author of History Gateway at Kansas, until October 1999, when Nancy Sween began maintaining the site on space provided by Dr. Nelson through University of Kansas. On 26 September 2003, the site moved to www.ku.edu/kansas/west/, then on 15 December 2005 to www.vlib.us/americanwest/


  • Site maintained at WWW Virtual Library @ www.vlib.us. Updated: 20 August 2009.

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