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Crossing the Great Divide
Transportation in the West


This section of WestWeb provides information about transportation in the West. Under Links to Other Sites, you will find a collection of links to sites such as transportation museums. Under Images, you will find direct links to pictures available online.

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Links


Texas Historical Commission's La Salle Shipwreck Project site.
The Museum of the City of San Francisco's page on Driving the Last Spike--the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
The Official page of the Union and Pacific Railroad includes some historical materials
The National Railroad Museum is in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum has a great deal of information, and many images, online.
The Library of Congress includes a section on Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 as part of the American Memory Project.
Pat Obrien's Canada includes information on Western Canada and Railroad History.
RRHistorical.Com calls itself Your First Stop for all Railroad Information on the Internet.
A small page about the Stagecoach Museum in Lusk, Wyoming.
The American Western History Museum has pages on Stage Coach Lines and the Pony Express, as well as Western Railroads.
History of the Wells Fargo company.
Women in History has a page on Mary Fields, an ex-slave who drove a mail coach in central Montana and earned the nickname "Stagecoach."
The Heard Museum has a page on their "Inventing the Southwest" exhibition, on the Fred Harvey Company.
A small page on the Fred Harvey Houses
The homepage of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society.
Matthew E. Salek takes a great, in-depth look at Interstate 70 in and around Colorado, and in particular the Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnel.
A great page on the Conestoga Wagon or "Prairie Schooner".
Andy Ackerman's page on Wagons on the Trails West.



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