An informal listing of web sites on the topic of:

UNITED STATES HISTORY:   WESTERN FRONTIER

(Last updated Fall 2002)

 

www.rootsweb.com/~nalakota/ Site provides digitized versions of photos and documents preserved in a wooden trunk since the 1860s.  Site includes first-hand accounts of famous battles of the western frontier, photographs, articles by and about familiar characters of the day, and articles dealing with reservation life.  Most are first-person accounts.

http://www.ukans.edu/kansas/seneca/oregon/ortrail.html Oregon Trail:  The Trail West.  Provides links to a number of sites that provide general history, trail maps, time lines, letters and journals related to travel along the Oregon Trail.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/ Site includes a biographical dictionary of notable Western men and women, information about historic sites in the West, an interactive timeline of significant events in the West from 1500 to 1917, and a collection of memoirs, journals, diaries, letters, autobiographies, photographs and other primary source documents relating to the West.  Site was developed to accompany the PBS documentary series on "The West."

http://www.ormiston.com/annieoakley/ This site provides archival photos, film clips, biographies, and links on Annie Oakley.  Site is maintained by the Annie Oakley Foundation.