Plains Humanities Alliance: Great Books of the Great Plains

The Plains Gateway

Early Omaha: Gateway to the West

Omaha Public Library

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.

Native American and North Plains Historical Resources Guide

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

A small searchable collection of references with some digitized articles on JSTOR and references to books.

Westward Through Nebraska

Project of Electronic Text Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Lincoln, NE

Digitized versions of rare contemporary works on trails and railroads through Nebraska

Willa Cather Electronic Archive

Project of CDRH, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Lincoln, NE

A wide range of electronic sources covering the life and work of Nebraska's most prominent author.

World's Fairs & Expositions - Defining America and the World, 1876-1916

Edited by Jim Zwick

Omaha, NE

A useful page of connections to on line resources and articles about the Trans-Mississippi Fair in Omaha in 1898.

Old West Kansas, The Kansas Collection

Lawrence, KS

A miscellaneous collection of resources including a digitized library of over fifty books and articles on early Kansas.

Territorial Kansas On Line

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.

Western Trails at Wichita State University

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.

A Collection of Digitized Kansas Maps

Wichita State University Libraries

Wichita, KS

Numerous maps from before 1854 and 1854 through 1900.

Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection

Colorado Digitization Program

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.

Digital Gallery

New York Public Library

NY

A large collection of digital images of manuscripts and photos with over three hundred items on various subjects from the Great Plains.

Wichita Photo Archives

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.

Gender Perspectives in Photography: The Myra Morton Miller and Gustav Meier Johnson Collections

South Dakota State Historical Society

Pierre, SD

A small but good collection of frontier photos of South Dakota.

The North Great Plains, 1880-1920, American Memory Library of Congress

Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F. A. Pazandak Photograph Collections

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

University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections

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.

The Photography Collection at the Denver Public Library

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.

History of the American West, 1860-1920

American Memory collection at the Library of Congress

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

Trans Mississippi and International Exhibition

Omaha Public Library

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.

Old West Kansas, The Kansas Collection

Lawrence, KS

A miscellaneous collection of resources including a digitized collection of images with several of early Kansas history before 1907.

The History Gateway at Kansas

Lawrence, KS

Lots of links to on line resources about history in Kansas.

The Oregon Trail

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.

Nebraska Western Trails

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.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark Expedition

Project of CDRH, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

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.

The Historical Deadwood Newspaper Index in South Dakota Library Network

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.

The Ethnography of Lewis and Clark

NE

An online exhibit with analysis of ethnographic objects relating to the Lewis and Clark expedition.