THE WEST Links

Below are links that will help you with your research  Chapter 12 in your text book is also very helpful.

The Story of Railroad Owners

1) Pacific Railroad Unites Nation, Fosters Growth

2) Tunneling in the Sierra Nevada
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3) Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum




Chinese Railroad Workers
1) Chinese-American Contribution to Transcontinental Railroad

2) General Article: Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad

3) Tunneling in the Sierra Nevada

4) The Chinese Workers' Strike

5) Nitroglycerin

 

Farmers and Homesteaders
1) Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912


2) Homestead Act Signed (click on Homestead Act Signed box)


3) Railroads and Settlement (Click on Union Pacific RR Chartered box)

 
FINDING PHOTOS
1) Library of Congress
2) PBS Photos
3) Digital History
4) Union Pacific 
5) Images-Chinese

Railroad Workers (Union Pacific Employees)
1) Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

2) General Article: Workers of the Union Pacific Railroad

3) General Article: Hell on Wheels





Native Americans
1 )Interview: Native Americans


2) Native Americans and the Transcontinental Railroad


3) Native Americans and 30 year war



Cowboys and Ranchers
1) The Introduction of Barbed Wire to the Frontier

2) The End of the Open Range and Cowboy Culture

3) Beef moves to Nebraska

4) Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912

5) Homestead Act Signed

6) Railroads and Settlement


Primary Resources or Quotes
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