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Central Pacific Railroad
Photographic History Museum
Some really interesting materials on this site. http://www.cprr.org/
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The
Hohokam - (University of Colorado-Denver)
This site was a project conducted at CU-Denver. It contains an interesting
interactive diagram of a Hohokam village.
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/stc-link//hohokam/Hohokam.htm
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Mountain Men and
the Fur Trade
The primary purpose this web site is to provide a virtual research center
for Western Fur Trade History. The emphasis is on the Mountain Men in the United States
Rocky Mountain region in the period from 1800-50. The first priority is to provide an
e-text collection of the most important historical source materials. Good collection of
primary sources. http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html
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New
Perspectives on the West
This site was created to expand upon the Public Broadcasting television
series by Ken Burns and Steven Ives. The site contains a wealth of material including a
chronology of western history, archival resources pertaining to each of the series'
espisodes, and additional Internet links. http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/intro.htm
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Southwest Frontier
and the Fur Trade
This site was created by an organization called the American Mountain Men.
It appears they are enthusiasts concerning this subject. From what we could tell, there
are some valuable resources contained on this site. http://klesinger.com/jbp/swf1.html
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Union Pacific
Railroad History
This is part of the official web site of the railroad. Even so, it contains
some interesting historical materials including narrative, photos, and historical maps.
http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/
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West Web
(College of Staten Island, SUNY)
This site contains a wealth of information about US western history. One
interesting feature of the site is Lavender's overviews of her favorite sites (which
changes from time to time). All in all, this is an extraordinary web site.
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/
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