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For anyone who is interested in early California miners and settlers, especially in northern California, 1848-1880. Archives: browse or search.

Early California Population Project

Provides public access to all the information contained in California's historic mission registers, records that are of unique and vital importance to the study of California, the American Southwest, and colonial America. From the Huntington Library.

Fort Robinson Museum

Crawford, Nebraska.

Frontier Living: An Illustrated Guide to Pioneer Life in America

A book by Edwin Tunis.

Milestone Historic Documents - The Northwest Ordinance

An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio. As it appears in the Supplement to the First Volume of the Columbian Magazine, Philadelphia, 1787. Explains the Northwest Ordinance and its significance, full text online and scanned copy of original document.

Mountain Men and the Fur Trade

Sources of the History of the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West.

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier

A book by Linda Peavy.

Pony Express Home Station

Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters

Digital collection integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society, the Solomon D. Butcher photographs and the letters of the Uriah W. Oblinger family. Together they illustrate the story of settlement on the Great Plains.

Sod Walls

A book by Roger Welcsh.

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

Consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky & West Virginia from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.

The Frontier in American Culture

From the The University of Washington Libraries.

The Hudson's Bay Company Archives

From the Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Canada.

The Old Army in Texas: A Research Guide to the U.S. Army in Nineteenth-Century Texas

A book by Thomas T. Smith.

Valdez Gold Rush Centennial

Websteader: Pioneer Dugouts, 1830-1999

Pictures and descriptions of how dugouts are constructed.

Websteader: Pioneer Sod Houses, c. 1880-1999

Pictures and descriptions of how sod houses are constructed.