Books
Richard White, It's Your Misfortune and None
of My Own
A comprehensive history of the American West incorporating
recent historical scholarship.
Films
The Alamo
John Wayne plays David Crockett in this highly romanticized
1960 recreation of the battle of the Alamo.
View the movie trailer (requires Windows Media Player):
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0053580/trailers
To learn more about Hollywood's depiction of the West,
see:
Carnes, Mark C., ed., Past Imperfect: History According
to the Movies
Web Sites
Recommended Web Site:
History Now: The American West
http://www.historynow.org/09_2006/
Essays, lesson plans, and interactive features from the
Gilder Lehrman Institute's quarterly online journal.
Exploring the West
http://west.stanford.edu/exploringthewest/index.html
This site contains over 100 worksheets and dozens of lesson
plans that present the West as a contemporary, diverse,
transnational, and dynamic region.
Related Web Sites:
Primary Sources
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The West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/index.htm
Primary source material on the American West, including
many memoirs, journals, diaries, letters, and autobiographies.
Images of the West
http://www.photoswest.org/
This site contains a selection of 65,000, historic
photographs from the collections of the Denver Public
Library Western History/Genealogy Department and
the Colorado Historical Society, including images
Native Americans, pioneers, early railroads, mining,
Denver and Colorado towns. Notable collections depict
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, the Clarence Moreledge
photographs at Wounded Knee, and the Charles S.
Lillybridge collection which depicts daily life
in Denver around the turn of the century. Click
here to see a list of photographers
and subjects.
Views of the West
http://www.historynow.org/09_2006/interactive.html
An interactive album of nineteenth century photos
of the West from the Gilder Lehrman Collection.
Harper's Weekly
http://thewest.harpweek.com/
Samples of material on the American West from Harper’s
archives.
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Native Americans,
Removal, Resistance
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The Seminole Tribe of Florida
http://www.seminoletribe.com/history/index.shtml
The Seminole Indians of Florida present their own
history, including the story of Seminole resistance
to the removal policy.
The Trail
of Tears
http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html
This site identifies the key people, terms, events,
and consequences of the removal of the Cherokees
from Western Georgia.
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Westward Expansion
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The Donner Party
http://members.aol.com/danmrosen/donner/index.htm
A daily log of the Donner Party's journey, including
diary entries for each day, and quotes from original
sources and histories.
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the
Corps of Discovery
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
The companion site to the PBS series contains a
time line, journals from the expedition, historians
reflections on the expedition, information on the
Indian peoples that the expedition encountered,
and lesson plans and activities.
Mountain
Men and the Fur Trade
http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html
An on-line Research Center devoted to the history,
traditions, tools, and mode of living, of the trappers,
explorers, and traders, it contains diaries, letters,
narratives, business records, maps, images, and
art works relating to the Mountain Men during the
years 1800-1850
New Perspectives
on the West
http://www3.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
Companion site to the television documentary, The
West. This site includes: Events in THE WEST, an
interactive timeline tracing events from pre-Columbian
times to the early twentieth century; Places inTHE
WEST, an interactive map covering the territory
and the times; People inTHE WEST, an interactive
biographical dictionary of historical figures; and
Archives of THE WEST, documentary materials including
memoirs, journals, letters, photos and transcripts
The Autry National Center
http://www.autry-museum.org/
The Autry National Center in Los Angeles is an intercultural
history center formed from the merger of three important
museums: the Southwest Museum of the American Indian,
the Museum of the American West (formerly the Autry
Museum of Western Heritage), and the Women of the
West Museum.
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