Gilded Age

Gilded Age

Native Americans

The West

Gilded Age

America in the Gilded Age
This site is from "The American Experience" PBS Many photos information and a teachers guide.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html

Standard Oil
This is Chapter 1 of the history of Standard Oil
http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/UPTO20.HTM

The Lords of Industry
This was written by Henry Demarest Lloyd for North American Review in 1884. Its topic is the "robber barons" of industry
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1884hdlloyd.html

"Wealth" by Andrew Carnegie
This was written in 1889, as part of the writings of Andrew Carnegie.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1889carnegie.html

Native Americans

Indian Ruins of the Southwest
Site contains information about the homes, food and clothing that distinguished the five major cultures--Southwest, California-Intermountain, Northwest, Plains and Eastern Woodland.
http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/archaeol/indruin.htm

Native American Resources
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/?

Seminole Indian Site
http://www.seminoletribe.com?

Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Congress established the museum in 1989 to highlight and honor cultural achievements by American Indians.
http://www.si.edu/nmai

WWW Virtual Library-Native Americans
Site contains resources on Native American history, culture, art, language, education and native nations.
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresource

West, The

Cybersoup's The Wild West
The site also contains information on the Native Americans and their culture, legends, beliefs, artwork and notable individuals with many tribes represented. The Cowboys section contains songs, poems, trail recipes, facts of the West and cowgirls.
http://www.thewildwest.org

The American West
A must visit site for everything West including clip art, images from the National Archives and lots of links.
http://www.americanwest.com

The Wild, Wild West
Visit this site for information about the Oklahoma Territory and the Indian Nation.
http://www.gunslinger.com/west.html?

Westward Expansion Links
http://www.americanwest.com/pages/wexpansi.htm?

Women of the West
Some of the women found here are: Calamity Jane, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Annie Oakley along with some unfamiliar names.
http://www.overand.com/westpers2.html

Wyatt Earp?
Everything and anything about Earp at this site
http://www.techline.com/~nicks/earp.htm

Women and Social Movements in the United States
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/

Words and Deeds in American History
Site contains original manuscripts and letters archived at the Library of Congress.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html