Search The Directory The Web for Home > Society > History > By Region > North America > United States > West New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   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.   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 Library - Publishers of first-person accounts (primary sources) of the history of the Old West.   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 - Provides letters, diaries, and other papers associated with the expansion westward and daily life on the frontier in the U.S.   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 and Dugouts - Illustrated essays on pioneer techniques of building houses from turf or hollowed out of rock, from Websteader SodHouses.   Southwest Explorations - Overviews and maps of several expeditions that opened Arizona and the American West.   The American West Frontier History - A collection of American western history web sites for the use of college students.   The Dawes Act or General Allotment Act of 1887 - Complete text of the Dawes Act, an act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations.   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 National Festival of the West - The country's largest celebration of the Old West and the American cowboy, held annually.   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: 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.   The Wild West - Information on the outlaws, lawmen, women, and towns of the Old West.   Turner: The Frontier In American History - Classic by Frederick Jackson Turner: The significance of the frontier in American History reprinted online.   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.     [ 1 2 3 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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