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Pioneer Resources
Updated March 4, 2009

General Pioneer Websites:

Pioneer Life Web Center

Central Nevada Emigrant Trail Association (CNETA), Life for travelers along the trail

Pioneer Children, toys & games, Life for Pioneer Children

Covered Wagons:

Types of Covered Wagons - http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/trailofthe49ers/wagons.htm

Prairie Schooners - http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/wagons.html

Conestoga Wagon - http://www.hansenwheel.com/products/custom_wagons/covered_wagons.html

Pioneer Covered Wagon Craft-make a wagon:

http://familycrafts.about.com/library/projects/blcovwag.htm?iam=howstuffworks_SKD&terms=covered+wagon

http://www.nps.gov/whmi/educate/ortrtg/12or5.htm

http://www.nps.gov/whmi/educate/ortrtg/12or4.htm

Lewis & Clark:

Expedition - http://www.lewis-clark.org/index.htm

Trail - http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/

Interactive Journey, Timeline, ...http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/

Companion to PBS series"Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: It contains concise descriptions of many Native American tribes - http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

Biography of Meriwether Lewis - http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9381267

Biography of William Clark - http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9249584

Oregon Trail:

A multitude of links to the Oregon Trail - http://www.over-land.com/trore.html

End of the Oregon Trail library - http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/histhome.html
FAQs, prairie schooners, provisions & prices, women on the Oregon Trail, black pioneers...

*The American West - http://www.americanwest.com/index2.htm

People of the West:

Native Americans, like Geronimo & Apache Kid/Glinglingers like Wyatt Earp & Billy the Kid/Prospectors and Cowboys - http://www.desertusa.com/ind1/du_peo_past.html

Biographical Dictionary profiling men and women of the west - http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/

Dr. John Henry "Doc" Holliday - http://www.americanwest.com/pages/docholid.htm

William F. Cody "Buffalo Bill" - http://www.americanwest.com/pages/buffbill.htm

James Bowie(bowie knife inventor) - http://www.lsjunction.com/people/bowie.htm

Davy Crockett - http://www.americanwest.com/pages/davycroc.htm

Daniel Boone - http://www.americanwest.com/pages/boone.htm

Kit Carson - http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/carson.htm

Buffalo Soldiers:

Buffalo Soldiers and Indian Wars - http://www.buffalosoldier.net/

Pony Express:

Pony Express Information - http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/ponyexp1.htm

This History Page is a compilation of People, Places, Vocabulary, and Dates of the Pony Express. http://www.xphomestation.com/frm-history.html

Museum of the City of San Francisco - http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/pxpress.html