The Westward Movement
Independence Rock, Wyoming, a familiar
landmark on the Oregon Trail which bears graffiti from passing
pioneers. Photo in 1872 by William H. Jackson, US National
Archives, NWDNS-57-HS-286. You can explore Yellowstone, the Rockies, and
much of the great American West in over 1100 photographs by the
acclaimed photographer William H. Jackson who accompanied the U.S.
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1869-1878
have been digitalized by the National Archives. Use the digital
search option in the Nail
Database and use
"NWDNS-57-HS" as the key word.
The Library of Congress, "California as I First Saw It," exhibit includes first hand accounts dating
back to 1849, including sections on "The Discovery of Gold" and
the "Forty Niners." The Gold Rush to
California is the second feature of the Library of Congress,
Today in History, for November
25.
The Library's Today in History feature for May 15 introduces San Francisco and
other aspects of the West in the 1840s and 1850s. The feature for
August 14 introduces
the Oregon Territory while the first feature for October 24
remebers the Pony Express.
Territorial growth maps of
the United States in 1830,
1840,
1850,
1860
and 1870 are
available from the From U.S. National Atlas,
1970 courtesy of the Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection at
The University of Texas at Austin.
The Ken Burns video on the
The West
has an accompanying web site with a large amount of doucments,
images, and links.
The striking, "THE
ILLUSTRATING TRAVELER: ADVENTURE AND
ILLUSTRATION IN NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 1760-1895,"
an exhibit from the Beinecke Rare Book &
Manuscript Library of Yale University offers a wealth of artistic
views of America.
Henry Nash Smith's, Virgin
Land is available in
hypertext from the University of Virginia.
American
History on the Web
Home
Page
This page was last updated
August 21, 2002
JTJWH@ttacs.ttu.edu
Background: an altered image of the Declaration of
Independence, see the original images at the presentation on the Declaration
of Independence by the US National Archives.
