American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West

Web Links

California as I Saw It:
First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html

Close to 200 first-person narratives by politicians, soldiers, pioneers, and travelers. The texts can be browsed by topic or searched.

New Perspectives on the West

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest

The companion site to the PBS documentary. Includes a timeline.

Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, by Henry Nash Smith

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/home.htm

Complete text of a 1950 study of the mythology of the American West.

WestWeb: Western History Resource

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/

Documents and links.

Westward the Course of Empire

http://www.mcny.org/
Click on 'Contents' on the Museum of the City of New York Home Page, and search for 'Westward the Course of Empire' to see a small collection of documents on Indian policy in the late 19th century.

Native American Documents Project

http://ww2.csusm.edu/nadp/nadp.htm/
A small collection of documents on Indian policy in the late 19th century.

Stereoviews of Indians and the Colorado River from the J. A. Powell Survey, ca. 1869-1874

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/calher/colorado/Generic_BookView

Portraits and camp scenes.

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