Ms. Sharon Matthews/Mr. O’Brien
March 9, 2003
American Horse- Sioux Indian Chief- one of the wittiest. http://www.theoldwestwebride.com/txt7/Americanhorse.html
Arizona Gunfighters- This site offers some interesting biographies of the more
famous gunslingers of the west. http://www.arizonagunfighters.com/
Biographical Dictionary http://www.s9.com/biography/
Buffalo Soldiers http://www.buffalosoldier.net/
Edward S. Curtis’s Photographic portrayal of 80 tribes http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
HISTORY BUFF http://www.historybuff.com/library/refwest.html
ILTweb a history of North American Indians http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/naha/natribes.html
Major American Tribes http://saveournation.com/Indians.html
NATIVE AMERICANS http://www.americanwest.com/pages/nathom.htm
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE WEST http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
Our Gold Country Community http://www.ncgold.com/goldrushtown/
Overland tourist sites http://www.over-land.com/trorsites.html
Overland trail along the South Platte River http://www.over-land.com/soplatte.html
Overland trail western forts http://www.over-land.com/westfort.html
Stagecoach- Mary Fields- An interesting article about a
woman pioneer. http://www.cascademontana.com/mary.htm
The American Indian http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/poli/indians.html
The American West http://www.americanwest.com/
The Buffalo Soldiers On The Western Frontier – This site
offers information about the act that Congress passed and the soldiers of the 9th
Calvery. http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buf1.html
African American Warriors- This site offers information about the African
American in all forms of combat. Buffalo soldiers are included. http://www.abest.com/~cklose/aawar.htm
Gold Rush http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/
The Discovery of Gold in CA http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/gold.html
The Oregon Trail http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
The Overland Trail http://www.over-land.com/
The Plains Indians http://4thmoon.com/native/nativeindex.htm
The West http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
TRAIL GATE http://www.theoldwestwebride.com/1.0.1.html
Wars of the American Plains Indian http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query1?p=American+Plains+Indian+wars&hq=site:www.over-land.com
Wayback Machine- CA 1848 http://www.discovery.com/stories/wayback/980323/wayback.html
WELLS FARGO http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/western_clubs/wells_fargo/wells_fargo.html
Wisconsin’s major tribes http://www.mpm.edu/perm/nai.html
Many of the following sites are self-explanatory and I did not bother to comment on them. Others were not as obvious.
Azteca Web This web is actually a copy of the treaty
with Mexico.
Mexican War
Mexican War - Paintings and
Lithographs
Black
Bean
Lottery This site is actually history.net. If you select it, from the home page select
American History. From there you will
be able to select Westward Expansion or 19th Century.
Descendants of Mexican War Veterans This site offers information in concise form and frequently asked questions about the war.
Mexican War - Federation of American Scientists This site has a great deal of information about the causes of the war.
Mexican
War - Named Campaigns
Mexican-American War - Enough Blame to Go Around This site has a document that supports its
title. What is especially neat is that
if you click onto any of the italicized reference words, you are taken to a
bibliography. This could be used by you
for further reference.
Mexican-American
War - The History Guy This site offers several
references to the war.
Mexican-American War and Hispanic Land Dispossessions This site offers information regarding the loss of property and the serious beginnings of estranged feelings between Mexican-Americans, Chicanos, and Anglos.
Mexican-American War Memorial Homepage
US-Mexican War and
Peoples of the Year 2000
US-Mexican War
Mexican War - Politics
and Policy
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -
MHS