Reference Materials
Online References
The Denver Public Library Collection - Over 30,000 photographs, chosen from the the Western History and Genealogy Department at the Denver Public Library.
Opening History: U.S. History resources from libraries, museums, and archives.
The Household Cyclopedia - Here is a link to a book that was published in 1881, called The Household Cyclopedia. You can read it online, or download it as either a PDF or TXT file. It is 813 pages of information on just about anything you're interested in. It tells how to make your own matches, inks, plates used to take photographs, metallurgy, agriculture, tanning, pottery, medicine (including amputations), cooking, fishing, you name it!
John C. Grabil Collection - The 188 photographs taken between 1887 and 1892 and sent by John C.H. Grabill to the Library of Congress. Grabill's sepia-toned images capture the frontier of South Dakota and Wyoming and document its effects on the area's indigenous communities.
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum -Field and Studio: Western Hunting Photography collection.
River City John's Label Collection
Period Ebooks and Texts
Just added: Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
Texas Ranger Research Center: Electronic Books
Battle of the Little Bighorn, The:
An Eyewitness Account by the Lakota Chief Red Horn
Buffalo Harvest, The; by Frank H. Mayer with Charles B. Roth
Log of a Cowboy, The; by Andy Adams
Old Santa Fe Trail, The; by Colonel Henry Inman
Oregon Trail, The; by Francis Parkman
Passing of the Frontier, The; by Emerson Hough
Story of Cole Younger, The; by Himself
Story of the Outlaw, The; by Emerson Hough