The Road to Mt. Rushmore
This lesson explores the movement of people into the
far west and the development of mining, ranching, and agriculture. Duncan, Izzy and Izzy's grandmother travel through the Badlands and meet Joseph American Horse, who tells them about life on the plains for the Sioux
before and after the Europeans moved west.
Describe what life was like for Plains Indians before
and after westward expansion.
Knife River Indian Villages
National Historic Site
Chronology and Timeline
for American Indian History
Lakota Dakota Information
Home Page
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
The Children
of Changing Woman
Black
Hills Treaty
The Ethnography
of Lewis and Clark
Fort
Scott National Historic Site
Washita Battlefield National
Historic Site
Little Bighorn Battlefield
National Monument
The
Battle of Little Bighorn, Eyewitness Account
Big Hole National Battlefield
The
Wounded Knee Massacre
Tallgrass
Prairie National Preserve History and Photos and Information
History of
the Prairie
Exploring the
Prairie
On the
Prairie
Why were buffalo so important to the Plains Indians?
Buffalo and the Plains
Indians
Stories from a Buffalo Hide Painting (Smithsonian)
What
Can You Make from a Buffalo (Smithsonian)
Intertribal
Bison Cooperative Bison Information
Bison Prairie (Ho Chunk Nation Bison Ranch)
American
Bison (life and habitat information)
What would it have been like to travel west with one of
these groups?
American Westward
Expansion
Go West Across America
with Lewis and Clark
Discovering Lewis and Clark
Lewis
and Clark Maps of Exploration
The Journals
of Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark
The
Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery
Santa
FeTrail
The Santa Fe Trail
Center
Whitman Mission National Historic
Site (Oregon Trail)
All About the Oregon
Trail
Oregon Trail
History Library
Oregon Trail Emigrant Narratives and Biographies
Fort Laramie National Historic Site
Call
of the West
Donner Online
The Route to Hell
The Mormon
Pioneer Trail
Women
Pioneers (Library of Congress)
Traveling
on the Overland Trails (Library of Congress)
What were some of the reasons for and results of the Gold
Rush?
Gold Rush! (Oakland
Museum of California)
Gold Rush (PBS
US History for Kids)
California Gold Rush
(Museum of the City of San Francisco)
Discovery of Gold
in California by General John A. Sutter
Gold Rush
Era in California
Women in the Gold Rush
About the Gold Rush
The Gold
Rush: California Transformed
Klondike Gold Rush National Historic
Park
Bodie State
Historic Park
Columbia
State Historic Park
Jerome, Arizona
A Gold Rush Town
Stories from the
Gold Rush
How did the building of the railroads affect the settlement
of the west?
The Iron Road
Railroad
Maps: 1828-1900 (The Library of Congress)
Driving the Last Spike
Union Pacific
Railroad History
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History
Museum
Learn about some other people and events in the history
of the the west.
The
Life of Sacagawea
Buckaroos
in Paradise
Jim
Pierson Beckwourth
Black Cowboys
Buffalo Soldiers at the Presido
Buffalo Soldiers in the Guadalupe Mountains
Texas
Buffalo Soldiers
New Perspectives on the West
The Spanish Missions of
California
The
Northern Great Plains: 1880-1920 (The Library of Congress)
The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire-San Francisco
The Wells Fargo Stagecoach
The Pony Express
Pony Express National Historic Trail
The National Cowboy
and Western Heritage Museum
The
Diamond R Ranch (Cowboy Museum Kids Site)
Take your own virtual tour.
Lewis and Clark National Historic
Trail
Badlands National Park
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Mount Rushmore: An American Experience
Wind Cave National Park
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Devils Tower National Monument
Virtual Tour of Fort Laramie
Nez Perce National Historic
Park
San Antonio Missions National
Historic Park
Homestead
National Monument of America
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