Omaha, NE
A rare photographic album of early railroad land use, construction, and development. Especially valuable are early views of steamboats and the Missouri river.
Also provides access to a very impressive and important collection of photos, maps, and images of Omaha between 1860 and 1900.
The only 1854 or before item is a map of Omaha in 1854.
Vermillion, SD
A small searchable collection of references with some digitized articles on JSTOR and references to books.
Lincoln, NE
Digitized versions of rare contemporary works on trails and railroads through Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
A wide range of electronic sources covering the life and work of Nebraska's most prominent author.
Omaha, NE
A useful page of connections to on line resources and articles about the Trans-Mississippi Fair in Omaha in 1898.
Lawrence, KS
A miscellaneous collection of resources including a digitized library of over fifty books and articles on early Kansas.
Lawrence, KS
A virtual repository for Kansas territorial history sponsored by the University of Kansas and the Kansas historical Society.The site includes a large searchable collection of documents, newspapers, books, and letters that provide a comprehensive data base for researchers interested in the either the period, the region, or a specific topic.
Wichita, KS
James Mead Account Journals, 1867-1876. Three trading post journals of early trader in Kansas.
Four important guides to early Kansas and the Rocky Mountains.
Wichita, KS
Numerous maps from before 1854 and 1854 through 1900.
CO
Cutting edge digitization project of contemporary newspapers.Searchable and printable. Especially valuable are the newspapers from Denver City with contextual material relevant to Great Plains history.
NY
A large collection of digital images of manuscripts and photos with over three hundred items on various subjects from the Great Plains.
Wichita, KS
Organized by decade and topics, an excellent collection of images of a Great Plains city. There are over 200 photos from the 1860s through 1900s.
Pierre, SD
A small but good collection of frontier photos of South Dakota.
Fargo, ND
A rich collection of photos of residents' lives and farming on the north Great Plains around the turn of the twentieth century.Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota
Norman, OK
A good collection of thumbnail photos relating to the history of Oklahoma and the southern Plains that one can order.Large format images are not available on-line.
Denver, CO
One of the finest on line photograph collection available.Though most material is from Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West, there is much material on the Great Plains.
Washington, D.C., DC
Hundreds of photos from the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress relate to the history of the Plains region
Omaha, NE
A fine on line exhibit of the fair with links to a section on the Omaha Indian Congress of 1898 and an on line gallery of the F. A. Rinehart Photo collection.
Lawrence, KS
A miscellaneous collection of resources including a digitized collection of images with several of early Kansas history before 1907.
Lawrence, KS
Lots of links to on line resources about history in Kansas.
Pocatello, ID
A site with lots of information and links to more information and resources on the Oregon Trail. The site includes a useful digital archive of diaries, memories, and period books.
Lincoln, NE
A variety of images digitized.For 1803-1854 see especially: Sketches of Chimney Rock Twenty sketches of Chimney Rock, Nebraska, by a variety of artists and travelers, from 1841-1866. Images: Overland Migration Artifacts Seventeen images of artifacts related to the overland migration are collected along with descriptions of the artifacts (that are displayed at the Chimney Rock visitor center outside Bayard, Nebraska) and quotes from overland trail travelers.
Lincoln, NE
On-line version of the widely acclaimed edited version of Lewis and Clark Journals by Gary E. Moulton, published by the University of Nebraska Press.
Deadwood, SD
A searchable data base of Deadwood newspapers in the late nineteenth century. Search results provide transcript of some full short articles but most provide a short synopsis of article that in not provided online.
NE
An online exhibit with analysis of ethnographic objects relating to the Lewis and Clark expedition.