Exploration and Westward Expansion
Explorers, Surveys, and Expeditions
Articles
An Artist in the Rockies. Prologue. Spring 2016, Vol. 48, No. 1
In the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog
Photographs
In the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog
Photographs
Photographs taken by John K. Hillers during the Powell Survey and other Geological Surveys, 1879 - 1900
In the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog
Photographs
No 49: Expedition of 1874: Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho, looking through the timber, and showing the main fall, and upper or "Lace Falls".
Alaska
Articles
The Alaskan Frontier in Panorama: How the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Preserved Early 20th-Century Photographs, Prologue Magazine article, Winter 2009
In the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog
Arctic
Articles
Women of the Polar Archives The Films and Stories of Marie Peary Stafford and Louise Boyd, Prologue Magazine article, Summer 2010
The Arctic Sketches of Russell W. Porter, Prologue Magazine article, Winter 1997
Videos
In the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog
In the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog
Articles
Jefferson Looks Westward: President Secretly Sought Funds from Congress to Explore Louisiana Territory, Develop Trade. Prologue Magazine article, Winter 2002
In the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog
Other Resources:
(University of Nebraska website)
In the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog
Migrations and Migrants
Photographs
Conflicts and Military
Map of the Province of Texas, captured from the Ninth Division of the Imperial Mexican Army during the Mexican-American War.
Articles
Trading Gray for Blue: Ex-Confederates Hold the Upper Missouri for the Union, Prologue Magazine article, Winter 2005
In the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Catalog
Photographs
Copy of General Alfred Terry's telegram reporting the Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876, and the defeat of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.
Map of Nebraska and Kansas Territories, showing the location of the Indian Reserves according to the treaties of 1854
First Report of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, from General Alfred H. Terry in Montana, to Assistant Adjutant General R. C. Drum in Chicago
Articles
- Snakes & Scribes, The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks, Prologue Magazine article, Spring 1997
- The Search for the Site of the Sand Creek Massacre, Prologue Magazine article, Summer 2001
- A Victor in Defeat: Chief Gall's Life on the Standing Rock Reservation, Prologue Magazine article. Fall 2008
- Jesse S. Haire: Unwilling Indian Fighter, Prologue Magazine article, Summer 2011
Teaching Resources
Teaching with Documents Lesson Plan: Sioux Treaty of 1868
Additional NARA Resources
Other Resources
- Photographs from the American West
- Exploration Web Links from the Archives Library Information Center
- Louisiana Purchase
- Land Entry Case files and Homesteads