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Trails West: devoted to promoting web sites that have content about trappers, freighting, pioneer, or emigrant trails of the westward movement. Also: sites that have content about that westward movement. Examples: methods of transportation: stage coaches, Conestoga wagons, prairie schooners, and steam engines; mountain men, pioneers, explorers, outlaws, life styles, women, diaries, forts and settlements, military actions, also modern sites and sights in or near western historical places. |
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The Overland Trail
The Overland Trail was established in 1862 as a stage mail route through Colorado and Wyoming. Visit this site for lots of historical information and many links to other trails west sites.
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Emigrant Diaries, Memoirs, Reports Along Trails West
Contains Emigrant Diaries and Journals, letters, reports, memoirs of the trek west along the many Trails West. Also diaries of trappers and explorers.
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Mojave Muleskinners
Authentic Old West Reenactment
group based in Southern California. Dedicated to the lives and times of the men
and women of the Wild West, and to the spirit of the era, 1860 through
1890
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Cecil Houk's Nineveh Ford Web Page
My site contains genealogy data about Nineveh Ford who crossed the Oregon Trail in 1843. It also contains his narative about that crossing. And photographs!
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History Of A Pioneer Family
This is the story of the Courtney family's travels from Ohio to Minnesota, to Iowa, and finally to Oregon and Washington by wagon train in 1868. It was written by Florence Courtney Melton in 1923. She was the younger sister of my great grandmother Sarah Jane Courtney Houk.
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They Call Us Black Hawks. . .
The history of the First Cavalry is an intriguing study of personalities, technology, opportunity, and decision. The Regiment was instrumental in the expansion and growth of the United States. This page is dedicated to the story of that evolution, the making of the United States and of our A
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Pioneers of Eastern California
Located on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in Mono County and Inyo County California, is a remote rugged area settled by miners, merchants, farmers, and ranchers. These pages cover the genealogy, biography and history of the pioneers who lived here anytime between 1840 and 1900.
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Lance Howard/Golden Perils webpage
Dedicated to western author Howard Hopkins writing under the penname Lance Howard
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St. Vrain's Fort Homepage
A homepage for historic St. Vrain's Fort on the Platte River near present day Platteville, Colorado.
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Legend of Jimmy Camp
This is the story of Jimmy Camp, an historic campground along the old Cherokee Trail (variously known as the Taos or Trappers Trail). The campground was named for the legendary Jimmy Daugherty, and was used in turn by 19th century trappers, gold seekers, settlers, coalminers and ranchers%
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