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Documentary Resources, Article Archives, Virtual Exhibits

Archives of the West, 1806 - 1914, Public Broadcasting System

The Homestead Act of 1862, Background, Digital Classroom, National Archives and Records Administration

Text of Homestead Act of 1862: An act to Secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain, Genealogy of the Dakotas

Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Letters of a Woman Homesteader, 1909-1913, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

How the West Tamed America, Cottonwood: History of the Upper Sacramento Valley

Wild West Article Archives, The History Net

Directory of Online Resources on the History of the American West, Academic Info.

Frontier House: Frontier History, Public Broadcasting System

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900, Library of Congress

California: Magnet for Tourists and Home Buyers, Library of Congress

  Gallery: Home in the West, 1870 - 1915  

 SOUND RECORDING: VERNON DALHART, "HOME ON THE RANGE," 1927

Cowgirl Kitty Cannut

Pendleton, Oregon, 1916l