| Chapter 17:
The American West
Native American
Documents Collection
The Native American Documents Project is working to make documents
about the history of federal policy concerning native peoples more readily
available.
Black Elk: Holy
Man of the Oglala Sioux, 1863-1950
Excerpts from Black Elk's own words are quoted at this site.
Wounded Knee
Home Page
Information about Wounded Knee and the controversies surrounding what
happened are detailed at this site.
General George A. Custer Home Page
This site is dedicated to all of those who have an interest in the
life and times of General George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the
Little Big Horn.
George Armstrong Custer
Among other information, this site has a chronology of Custer's life
and career as well as a number links to other Custer sites.
The Stannary of
Wyoming
The Stannary of Wyoming is an attempt to collect and disseminate information
on the lesser-known mineral rushes in the western U. S. during the late
19th and early 20th centuries.
The Grange Connection
The site includes a description of what the grange is and a historical
summary of the organization.
Calamity Jane
The story of Marthy Cannary Burke, in her own words. Taken from The
Black Hills and Their Incredible Characters by Robert J. Casey, published
in 1949.
American Lives: Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill Historical
Center
Online photos of Buffalo Bill and other secenes of the American West.
You can also take the Artcom
Museum tour of the Center as well, which highlihgts the museum's collections
celebrating the dramatic story of the American West and providing visitors
a vibrant sense of their frontier heritage.
Buffalo Bill and
Native Americans
From David Burrell, a "popular-spirited" history done during
his time at the Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum in Golden, Colorado. If you
look through some of the simplistic prose and argumentation you may find
a compelling argument somewhere in there regarding how the Wild West and
Buffalo Bill played a significant and positive role in the conception of
Native Americans.
Buffalo
Bill's Wild West Show
This site is intended to supplement the reading of Henry Nash Smith's
book, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, as part
of a classroom project to enhance the teaching and understanding of this
book by exploring in depth issues, topics, and texts discussed in Nash's
orginal work.
Buffalo
Bill and William Cody
Explores the relationship between the man and the two personas and
puts them in their historical context. Information and descriptions of
the cast
of the Wild West Show is also available.
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