Primary source documents chronicling the westward expansion in America from the early 18th to the mid-twentieth century
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Description
From early topographical sketches and pioneers’ accounts, to photographs of Buffalo Bill and his ‘Wild West’ stars, explore the fact and the fiction of westward expansion in America. Browse a wide range of rare and original documents including printed books, journals, historic maps, broadsides, periodicals, advertisements, photographs, artwork and more.
It covers the following thematic areas:
- Agricultural development, landscape and the environment
- Borderlands
- Cattle ranchers, grazing and trails
- Homesteaders, overland travel and early settlements
- Mining and the Gold Rush
- Native Americans
- Outlaws, vigilantes and the law
- Pioneers, hunters and explorers
- The imagined West
- Mormons and missionaries
- Railroads, transportation and urban history
- Military encounters
Useful if you study:
- History
- American studies