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Web Sites for the History of the American West |
The
Journals
of Lewis and Clark
This site allows viewers to search the Lewis and Clark journals edited
by Gary E. Moulton. There are also special multimedia features
and
other essays.
The
First American West: The Ohio River Valley 1750 - 1820
Part of the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress, this
site has more than 15,000 pages of historical materials including
newspapers,
pamphlets, letters, journals, books, maps and more. Specific links of
interest
include Aaron Burr, James Wilkinson, Native Americans and documents
relating
to traveling the region.
Westward
by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890
Another site from the American Memory collection, this site contains
paintings, photographs maps, charts, diaries, letters, and narratives
of
Americans who moved west to California, Alaska, Texas, Hawaii,
and
the Pacific Northwest. Emphasis is on the California Gold
Rush,
the roles of women, the immigrant experience, whaling life, life at
sea,
shipping, an native populations. To see diaries, maps, and photographs
of pioneers who traveled overland to Utah, Montana, and the
Pacific
from 1847 to 1869 look at Trails
to Utah and the Pacific. The diaries and letters contain
"stories
of persistence and pain, birth and death, God and gold, trail dust and
debris, learning, love, and laughter, and even trail tedium ..." Trails of Hope is another
interesting site that includes overland trail diaries, maps and essays.
Spain,
The United States, and The American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
Created by the Library of Congress in collaboration with The National
Library of Spain, and The Biblioteca Columbina y Capitular of
Seville,
this collection of primary and secondary historical documents explore
the
"history of Spanish expansion into North America from Florida, Georgia,
the Carolinas, and across most of what is now the modern-day American
Southwest
all the way north to Alaska."
The
Chinese in California, 1850 - 1925
About 8000 pages and images of primary sources documents Chinese
immigration
to California, their contributions, and the social conditions they
experienced.
There are photographs, letters, diaries, maps and more. This is part of
the American Memory Collection.
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