Westward Bound

 General Information: American History/Pioneers

http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/pioneers.html

Primary Sources

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
http://www.goldrush.com/~joann/women.htm
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plains.htm

The Domestic Frontier

Clothing
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/domwest/cloth.html

Food
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/domwest/food.html

Camping
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/domwest/camp.html

Setting out
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/domwest/leave.html

Life on the trail
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/domwest/vehicle.html

The Alamo
http://www.thealamo.org/

Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/oregon/benton11.html

Davy Crockett
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/price/acrocket.htm
http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/crockett.html

U.S.-Mexican War 1846-1848
http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/mexwar1.htm

Jedediah Smith
http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/jed.html

Lewis and Clark
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/index.html
http://www.nps.gov/lecl/

Daniel Boone
http://earlyamerica.com/lives/boone/index.html

American Memory Collection of the National Digital Library
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html

The Oregon Trail
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html

Artists
http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?50234+0+0
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/albert_bierstadt_1830.htm
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/john_frederick_kensett_1816.htm
http://ellensplace.net/moran2.html

The Gold Rush
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/gold.html
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/fever.html
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/home.html
http://www.goldrush.com/~joann/
http://www.goldrush.com/~joann/women.htm

The Pony Express
http://www.xphomestation.com/

The Donner Party
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/donner.html
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/
http://www.donnerpartydiary.com/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/donner/route2hell2.html

Oregon Territory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug14.html

Steamboats and Paddlewheelers
http://www.steamboats.org/

Cholera
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/cholera_g.htm

Pike’s Peak
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug05.html

Buffalo
http://www.americanwest.com/critters/buffindx.htm

Quilts
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/quilts/

The Settlements
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/oregon/benton27.html