U.S. HISTORY - WESTERN EXPANSION
- Units in the school curriculum which require use of the Internet for research
Oregon Trail
- Students are to locate and/or search for information and primary sources for details
about the Oregon Trail and traveling across the prairie
- In Search of the Oregon Trail
- Myths and facts about the trail
- Oregon National State Trail
- Site is put up by the National Park Service, under some changes
- Oregon Trail Junction
- Place for maps and history also to order books and souvenirs.
- Oregon Trail Page
- A class set out to discover as much as they could about the Trail and these are their
findings; includes info about the time they spent on the trail
- The Overland Trail Links--Oregon
Trail-Last updated 11/12/98
- Great site for all areas of research...primary sources, maps, history and facts, etc.
- The Overland Trail Links--Literature of
the The Old West-Last updated 06/20/98
- Links to writers of the time period of the western expansion, viewpoint of the people
from the times
- Welcome to the End of the Oregon Trail
- Part of the living history museum to help educate people and students about the Trail
- Whitman Mission National Historic Site Bookstore
- Contains some links to history and also a place for lists of books and materials about
the Trail which may be purchased
Trail History/General Information
- American West - The Oregon Trail
- It all began with a crude network of rutted traces across the land from the Mississippi
River that was used by nearly 400,000 people. Today the 2,170 mile Oregon Trail still
evokes an instant image
- History of the
Oregon TrailIndependence, Missouri. Our destination was the
- Oregon Territory. On the 21st of May...we arrived in the town of Independence, Missouri.
Our destination was the Oregon Territory.
- Oregon Trail Information Center
- This page is provided through the support of the Global SchoolNet Foundation. This page
is designed to assist K12 students and teachers locate and share information about the
Oregon Trail.
- Oregon Trail History
- It was primarily an emigrant trail. However, the Oregon Trail was also used by the Army,
and stagecoaches and the Pony Express Route followed part of the trail. A time line of the
developments of the overland trails
- The Oregon Trail Home page
- Welcome to "The Oregon Trail" web site--a complete summary and collection of
the great western journey.Ê
- The Overland Trail--Last Updated 11/11/98
- A page of many links for maps, sites, etc
Trail Primary Sources
- Diaries >From the Oregon Trail
- Information from the book "Women's Diaries of the Westward Jorney" Author
Lillian Schlissel Publisher Schocken
- The Donner Party
- In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Donner Party, I created a daily log of the
Donner Party's journey. ÊThe daily logs include diary entries for each day, and quotes
from original sources and histories.
- Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail
- Sketches or writings of mountain and prairie life..."jumping off" the
"big blue" with a link to illustrations
- Historical Gazette: Oregon Trail 1843
- When in 1843 the frontier fever assumed an epidemic form on a small scale in Missouri,
my parents determined to cross the desert plains to the far distant territory of Oregon.
- Links--The Overland Trail Diaries-Last
updated 11/12/98
- Diaries, Memoirs and Letters Along The Trails West with links to the sources. Must
search by date and place (if it was part of the Trail)
- Oregon Trail Diaries
- Three types of Oregon Trail narratives exist: diaries, journals, and reminiscences.
Diaries and journals were actually written by emigrants as they trekked the 2000 miles
west; reminiscences were written much later in life.
- Pioneer Diaries and Emigrant Biographies
- Future updates to this section of our online library will include additional Pioneer
Families of the Month
- Vitus's Homepage
- The story of Lucinda Jane Saunders is a unique combination of diary excerpts, historical
novels and handed down tales, with many of the latterundoubtedly embellished over the
years of telling. Note: a personal not edu. site
Trail Sites/Geography
- American West - Expansion
- Includes maps of Lewis & Clark Expedition 1804, Santa Fe Trail 1821, Oregon Trail
1835 and Pony Express Route 1860. Has link to brief history of Trails
- Bridgeport, Nebraska Chamber of
Commerce-Geographic Landmarks Page
- Courthouse and Jail Rocks | Chimney Rock | Ancient Bluff Ruins | Biscuit Rock are sites
included from the Trail
- Chimney Rock National Historic Site
- Chimney Rock is the most famous landmark on the Oregon Trail
- Historic Sites on the Oregon Trail
- Visit each of the 22 sites from the beginning to the end of the Trail. Map shows where
along the Trail the site is found.
- Road Trip USA:The Oregon Trail
- In 1993, the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail renewed interest in
this best known of emigrant trails across the Wild West.
- Three Island Crossing
- Reenactment of the crossing with illustrations and with primary source quotes available
Reference Sites
- Sites to be used for individual searches of your own! Use keywords, phrases and/or
follow selected categories into the indexed sites
- HuskySearch
- Multi-search engine (parallel searches)
- MetaCrawler
- Multi search engine (parallel search engine)
- LookSmart - exploring World
- Index of sites on the Web, search by way of categories
- Yahoo!
- &127;Sites which have categorized thousands of sites into a searchable list are known as
indexes.
- IPL Ready Reference Collection
- The IPL Ready Reference Collection is a collection of Internet resources gathered
together with the needs of the Internet community in mind
- WWW Virtual Library
- Begin with a general choice of category and filter your way into the depths of the
indexed materials.