This section of WestWeb provides information about agriculture, mariculture, and the fur trade in the West. Under Texts you will find examples of primary texts, such as memoirs of Mountain Men, or secondary texts, such as critical essays or historical studies. Under Links to Other Sites, you will find a collection of links to sites dealing with various topics related to Western agriculture, mariculture, and fur trading. Finally, under Images, you will find direct links to pictures available online.
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Texts
- Bone Snow Knives and Tin Oil Lamps / Tamis de bois et jambières de laine
The Fight in the Fields, about César Chávez and the United Farm Workers.
Bonnie Lynn-Sherow's "Mechanization, Land Use, and Ownership: Oklahoma in the Early Twentieth Century", published by The Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 1996.
African-Americans in the Fur Trade West by William W. Gwaltney, Superintendent, Fort Laramie National Historic Site.
Links
- MMMN, Hudson's Bay - home / MHNM, Baie d'Hudson - début (Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature)
West Coast Shipbuilding
Pacific Salmon, Wildlife Species Information: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Pacific Salmon Information via the Internet
The Salmon Page
Dean Rudy's Mountain Men and the Fur Trade site is an online archive, gallery, and museum about the fur trade.
La Salle Shipwreck Site
West Coast Forestry SchoolNet Project
Voices From the Dust Bowl from the Library of Congress
PBS's Surviving the Dust Bowl website
A brief explanation of the Dust Bowl from the National Air and Space Museum's Drylands Exhibit
The FSA/OWI image archives from the Library of Congress
A great list of internet resources on the FSA
The New Deal Network website
Tom Isern's Bibliography on the History of the North American Plains
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' Wolf Management Strategies
Native Americans and the Environment: Hunting and Fur Trapping Links
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