| CommerceAlso see: Livestock 
 Bison, BuffaloHistory of the Plains Bison, American Museum of Natural History
 History of the American Bison, Buffalo Express
 Charles Rath and Buffalo Hunting, Early Ford County, KS
 
 CattleBuckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 American Memory
 Western Trails: An Online Journey, Collabrative Digitization Program
 Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest, Joseph McCoy, "The Pioneer Western Cattle Shipper," 1874, KanColl  Books
 Cattle Men and Drives, by Ida Ellen Rath, On-Line Book
 Chisholm Trail History
 Great Western Trail
 
 ConservationEvolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920
 
 Fur Trade also see: PeopleTIMELINE: A Brief History of the Fur Trade
 Fur Trade Period in the Indian Territory,  The Canadian Encyclopedia
 Fur Trade: Beaver Powered Mountaineering
 Southwest Frontier Fur Trade
 Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
 The Fur Trade Learning Centre
 Canoes
 The Fur Trading Posts
 The Beaver Fur Hat
 Women in the Fur Trade
 Speaking the language of the fur trade
 The Chinook Trade Jargon - Introduction
 White Oak Society - Deer River, Minnesota
 White Oak Fur Post - Links
 Library of Fur Trade Historical Source Documents
 Introduction to Osborne Russell's Journal of a Trapper
 
 Trading and Trails (Also see: Transportation)Indian Trade
 Santa Fe Trail
 Sante Fe Trail History, William Becknell, 1821
 Kansas Historic Trails
 Pioneer Trails from U.S. Land Surveys
 
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Economics of the 1830s: an Overview Commerce Of The Prairies, 1844-1845
 Great Financial Panics in History: 1893 was especially hard on banks in the West
 Pittsburgh, PA "in the year 1796, the town of 1,300 had already begun its transformation from untamed wilderness to industrial powerhouse..."
 Gambling
 
Faro: Favorite Gambling Game of the FrontierRailroadsAlso see: TransportationFrontier Gambler, dedicated to those men and a few women who earned their living by the turn of the card
 History of Poker, Wikipedia
 Central City, Colorado, Gilpin Historical Soc.
 "Wild Bill" Hickok's last poker game, Deadwood, SD
 Deadwood today in the Black Hills of SD
 Tombstone, AZ
 Also see: Gamblers
 
 
The Iron Horse: impact of railroads on 19th century American societyStagecoaches
Stagecoach Lines in Southwestern Ohio with eCardsRailroad maps: 1828 - 1900
 RR Historical
 19th and 20th Century Railroading: Colorado
 Western Railroads
 Railroads In Kansas
 Transportation at the Smithsonian
 Pacific Railway Act: 1862, The West, PBS
 
 
 
Steamboats
Steam Engine (1807) Arabia Steamboat Museum (1856 recovered boat)
 
Transportation Toys
Holland Antique Transportaion Toys, 1880-1940 
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