J. Kelly Robison

The New West

  1. The Plains Indian Wars (1861-1891)
    1. US Indian Policy
      1. Concentration - the Reservation System
      2. Destruction of the Bison
    2. Resistence
      1. Little Crow Uprising
      2. Sand Creek (1864)
      3. Ft. Laramie Treaty (1868)
    3. Grant's Peace Policy
      1. Assimilation
      2. Wars of the Peace Policy
        1. Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn (1876)
        2. Total War Against the Plains Tribes
        3. Wounded Knee (1891)
    4. The Reformers
      1. Helen Hunt Jackson - A Century of Dishonor (1881)
      2. Dawes Act/Allotment in Severalty (1887)
      3. Boarding Schools
  2. Western Settlement
    1. The Mining Frontier
      1. Colorado Gold Fields
      2. Comstock Lode
      3. Copper
    2. The Cattle Frontier
      1. Origins
      2. The Long Drive/the Open Range
      3. The Winter of 1886/1887 and Aftermath
    3. The Farming Frontier
      1. New Farming Technologies
        1. New Crops
        2. New Methods
      2. Homestead Life in the Arid West

Links

James J. Hill Group: Manuscript Services - http://www.jjhill.org/man_services.htm
Western Movies - http://www.findthefun.com/lists/mg000015.htm
American Western History Museumshttp://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/index_americanwest_museums.htm
The American West: Frontier Historyhttp://www.academicinfo.net/westfront.html
America's West - Development and History - http://www.americanwest.com/
Gallery of the Open Frontier - http://www.unl.edu/UP/gof/home.html
New Perspectives on THE WEST - http://www3.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
Sources for the Study of the Southwest - http://www.smu.edu/%7Ecul/southwest_all.html
WestWeb: Western History Resources - http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/
Borders - Fronteras - http://www.si.edu/folklife/vfest/frontera/start.htm
California Heritage Collection - http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/calheritage/
Chinese Historical & Cultural Education Project Curriculum - http://www.kqed.org/cell/golden/glmenu.html
Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to Present - http://WWW.CalHum.ORG/sfmoma-crossing/
Exploring the West from Monticello - http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/
General George A. Custer Home Page - http://www.garryowen.com/
The Interactive Santa Fe Trail (SFT) Homepage - http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/research/sft/index.html
Klondike Ho! 1897-1997 - http://www.wolfenet.com/~yoame/klon/
The Lewis and Clark Expedition - http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
Mormon History Resource Page - http://www.indirect.com/www/crockett/history.html
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade: Sources of the History of the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West - http://www.xmission.com/%7Edrudy/amm.html
Multicultural American West - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~amerstu/mw/
Old Montana Virtual West - http://www.virtualwest.com/
The Overland Trail - http://www.over-land.com/
Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
The Vigilantes of Montana: Secret trials and midnight hangings - http://montana-vigilantes.org/
Women Artists of the American West, Past & Present - http://www.sla.purdue.edu/waaw/

Western History Journals

Montana:  the Magazine of Western History
Western Historical Quarterly
Kansas Historical Quarterly; 1931-1977 Index

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