This resource provides concise historical information concerning the Pony Express in Utah.

A brief article about the Texas Rangers, the oldest law enforcement organization on the North American continent with statewide jurisdiction.

This site features the author James Fenimore Cooper including a biography and the full text three novels: The Last of the Mohicans, Oak Openings, and The Pioneers.

Scene of the American frontier, during colonial times.

This resource by the National Humanities Center features a short story, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", by Stephen Crane about the closing of the American frontier.

This website describes the biography and life of American frontier explorer Daniel Boone. Learn how he explored Kentucky and the Cumberland Gap.

This bilingual site explores the history of Brazil, interactions between Brazil and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, and compares and contrasts Brazilian and American culture and history.

Explore the mechanics of railroad trains. Investigate boom towns and explore the life and challenges of sheriffs in these frontier settlements.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the rise in population in American cities in the late 1800's and westward expansion.

This site from the National Park Service provides the history of Nidodemus, Kansas, first western town planned by and for African-Americans. Settled by exodusters, the town served as a symbol as a land of opportunity for blacks escaping...

A short multiple-choice quiz on the Pony Express.

Arguably the most famous essay every written about the impact of land on American history, Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" explains how Americans' relationship with the environment shaped...

Here's great information on building sod houses. You can even watch a video of a famous two-story sod house that stood until 1967.

William Johnston was born in Canada in 1780 and was an American spy on the Canada frontier during the War of 1812.

(1824-1886) American soldier that served in the Mexican War, Seminole War and ion the Western Frontier.

A map of the frontiers of Canada and New York around Lake Champlain showing the Saratoga Campaign of British General John Burgoyne (1777) during the American War of Independence. The map shows Montreal, Canada, Ticonderoga on Lake...

From 1912 until his death, this was the residence of Ole Edvart Rolvaag (1876-1931), Norwegian immigrant and the first American novelist to give a true accounting of the psychological cost of pioneering on the farmer's frontier. His...

This archaeological site was occupied by the Apalachicola and Yuchi tribes. During the 17th century, the Apalachicola tribe allied with the Spanish in Florida against the English in Carolina and were ultimately destroyed as a culture....

A thumbnail look at the many things occurring in the United States in the last half half of the 19th century. The topics covered are Gilded Age Politics, the "New Imperialism," Industrial America, Growth of Labor, Urbanization,...

Daniel Boone was an American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the U.S. state of Kentucky.

A map of Mexico in 1845, prior to the ceding of the northern territories to the United States in 1846. The map shows the territories of Oregon, Texas, and Central America under Mexican control, and the frontiers of the Missouri and...