Deschutes Public Library

Cascade Middle School: Mrs. Smoot, Mrs. Watkins, and Mrs. Morris’s Project on Westward Expansion

Library Online Resources

In the “Online Resources” section of the Deschutes Public Library website (www.deschuteslibrary.org/onlineresources), check out the databases in the Homework category! Use your library card to log in, or use them at a public library.

Biography in Context: look up people like Lewis and Clark, and other important people involved with Westward Expansion

Student Resources in Context: use keywords like “Westward Expansion” or “Manifest Destiny” to learn more about your topic

Websites

Moving Across the Country With Lewis and Clark
  www.upack.com/moving-across-the-country-with-lewis-and-clark/

Manifest Destiny
  www.ushistory.org/us/29.asp

American West – Manifest Destiny
  www.historyonthenet.com/American_West/manifest_destiny.htm

Digital History: Readings on Westward Expansion
  www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=57

Westward Expansion Portal Site
  www.tms.riverview.wednet.edu/lrc/westward%20movement.htm

PBS’s The West: Interactive Biography Database
  www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/

PBS’s The West: Interactive Timeline
  www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/events/

PBS’s The US-Mexican War
  www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar

Journals of Lewis and Clark
  lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/

Discovering Lewis and Clark
  www.lewis-clark.org/

National Geographic’s Interactive Lewis and Clark Exhibit
  www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/

Trappers and Traders
  hewit.unco.edu/dohist/trappers/themes.htm

Frontier Legends: Explorers, Trappers, and Traders
  www.legendsofamerica.com/we-explorerindex.html

National Parks Service: American Indians, Traders, Trappers and Settlers
  www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/scotts_bluff/essay_American_Indians_traders_trappers.html

PBS’s Indian Removal
  www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html

Library of Congress: Primary sources on Indian Removal Act
  www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html

Asian Americans in the West
  www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/pages/asian.html

American Experience: Transcontinental Railroad (see Special Features)
  www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/tcrr/

The First Transcontinental Railroad
  www.tcrr.com/

The National Postal Museum: The Story of the Pony Express
  www.postalmuseum.si.edu/resources/6a2b_ponyexpress.html

Gold Rush History Portal Site
  malakoff.com/gorh.htm

Last modified on Tuesday, March 12, 2013