Photographs

Native Americans 

Books Online

Biographical Links

• Making of America

A site with original historical texts
• Lewis & Clark

extensive site with a timeline, maps, archive, information on Native Americans and the journals of Lewis and Clark
• Geographical highlights of the Lewis and Clark expedition

a students page on projects dealing with the west, includes hand-outs, schedules, information on National reservations and beautiful pictures of landscapes. 
• MERIWETHER LEWIS (1774-1809) and WILLIAM CLARK (1770-1838)

summary about the reasons for Lewis and Clark Expedition and information on the editing of the journals after the death of Lewis.
• The Turner Thesis Online 

Essay written 1893 "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". (One of the most important essays of the American History)
• The groups of settlers in the west

Farmers, Fur Traders, Miners, Cattle Drivers ...
• The Californian Goldrush

Lots of informationn about the people that went there looking for gold. 

• Photographs of the American West 1861-1912

A government site with old photographs of the American West.

• American Indians and the Natural World

Interesting facts to typical Indian Tribes of the American West, East, North and South - given by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
• The Hopi Tribe 

The official Website of the Hopi Tribe.
• Litigation to Protect Western Shoshone Territorial Integrity

• Bartleby.com

researches on nonfiction, fiction, verse and quotations not only in one but many encyclopaedia
• Encyclopaedia Britannica

commercial, but has a huge knowledge base 

• About Mark Twain

a very extensive site on life, book summaries, family life, publication dates...of Mark Twain, includes excerpts from his most famous works.