Resources for Additional Information

Artists

George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, 1841. Published by Ross & Haines, Inc., Minneapolis, 1965, 2 vols.

Campfire Stories with George Catlin, Smithsonian Institution, http://catlinclassroom.si.edu/

Edward S. Curtis� North American Indians, Library of Congress website: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html

Joan Carpenter Troccoli. First Artist of the West: George Catlin Paintings and Watercolors. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, 1993.

Joni Louise Kinsey. Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Karen Current. Photography and the Old West. New York: Harry N. Abrams in conjunction with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1978.

McKenney & Hall, Tribes of North America http://content.lib.washington.edu/mckenneyhallweb/more-info.html

Martha A. Sandweiss. Print the Legend: Photography and the American West. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

19th Century Writings
Consistution and By-Laws of the St. Louis Branch of the Indian Rights Association, 1884.

Harper's Weekly presents "The American West" http://thewest.harpweek.com/

Making of America, University of Michigan and Cornell University: a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The Making of America collection comprises the digitized pages of books and journals. This system allows you to view scanned images of the actual pages of the 19th century texts.
      Cornell University: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/
      University of Michigan: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor, The River of the West: Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon, 1870. http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/jmeek/meekpre.html

Rev. J. Rothensteiner, The Flat-Head and Nez Perce Delegation to St. Louis, 1831-1839. St. Louis: Amerika Print, 1920.

W. A. Ferris, Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado from February, 1830, to November, 1835. Edited, and with a Life of Ferris, and a History of Explorations and Fur Trade, by Paul C. Phillips. The Old West Publishing Company, Denver Colorado, 1940.

Henry M. Stanley. My Early Travels and Adventures in America. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

Jack Detzler, editor. Diary of Howard Stillwell Stanfield, Overland trip from Indiana to California, 1864... Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1969.

Arthur Jerome Dickson, editor. Covered Wagon Days: A journey across the plains in the sixties, and pioneer days in the Northwest; from the private journals of the Albert Jones Dickson. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1929.

Contemporary Writings on Western History

Celeste Adams, Franklin Kelly, Ron C. Tyler. America: Art and the West. New York: American-Australian Foundation for the Arts, 1986.

Chris Bruce. Myth of the West. New York, Seattle: Rizzoli, 1990.

Dee Alexander Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1970.

Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington. Where is the West? New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Judith Freeman Clark. America�s Gilded Age: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1992. New Perspectives on the West. PBS, http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/

Patricia Nelson Limerick. Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.

Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967.

Sacred Journey of the Nez Perce, a co-production of Idaho Public Television and Montana Public Television: http://www.idahoptv.org/productions/archives/sacred/battles.html

W. Richard West, R. Carlos Nakai. Native American Voices: Celebrating the National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, 1998.

William Cronon, George A. Miles, Jay Gitlin. Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America�s Western Past. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.

William H. Truettner, Nancy K. Anderson, The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820 � 1920. Washington: Published for the National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.