LINKS FOR WRITERS & RESEARCHERS & JUST PLAIN SEARCHERS

• Replica Guns and Swords - images. Good pictures of Civil War clothing, Rifles, Old West firearms. http://gun-sword.stores.yahoo.net/revolvers-wild-west.html
• Gunfighters of the Old West - picture and biography of Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, Clay Allison and more. http://www.boogman.com/oldwest/index/gunmen.html
• Gunfighter, also gunslinger, is a name that was given to men in the American Old West who had gained a reputation as being dangerous with a gun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfighter

http://www.over-land.com/ Stagecoaches, people, history, lots of links.

http://www.over-land.com/westpers2.html Women of the West - Annie Oakley: She could shoot the head off a running quail when she was twelve years old. Links to pages about famous and infamous women such as Belle Starr, other notorious ladies, a 1858 divorce, the lady outlaw's hideout, women in gold camps.

http://www.drquinnmd.com/bank.html
Dr. Quinn site with some useful information about life in the times. Banking: Currency chart very helpful. Town map with school, clinic, telegraph - some useful information for western writers.

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Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/almanack/life/trades/tradebla.cfm
http://www.history.org/

Colonial Williamsburg site has daily life info that would apply to 1800s life as well. Use the History pulldown menu and check out the people and places. Experience the life.
http://www.history.org/Almanack/places/places.cfm

Pasteur & Galt Apothecary Shop
http://www.history.org/Almanack/places/hb/hbpast.cfm

COWBOY.COM : http://www.cowboy.com/

 

"America's Favorite Western Search Engine!" Food, Barbeque, Recipes, ... Historical, Memorabilia, Museums, Horses, Apparel, Tack, Trainers, Travel, Outdoor Activities, Fishing, Hunting, Poetry and Humor, Cartoons, Poems, Poets. . .

Dodge City - Dodge City is a pure definition of the West ... a gateway to history that began with the opening of the Santa Fe Trail by William Becknell in 1821 and became a great commercial route between Franklin, Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico until 1880. http://www.americanwest.com/pages/dodge.html

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum - History, exhibits, geography, Library of Congress maps. Example: Commercial Map of the United States showing the principal connecting lines of Railroad across the Country, also the Proposed Railroad Routes to the Pacific, detail, from Warren's Geography, Philadelphia, H. Cowperthwait & Co., 1859 http://cprr.org/Museum/Maps/index.html

Lone Hand Western: History of the Old West : http://lonehand.com

Chuckwagon Central is cooking up all kinds of Old West History. Even recipes! The largest collection of period 1800 cowboy song lyrics on the Internet.

Old west historians, Journal of the Old West, Civil War song lyrics. Chuckwagon Catering and Historical Re-enactments. Visit the Cowboy Gear section: clothing of the period. Links.

http://nmhcpl.org/COWBOY.html
NEW MEXICAN HISPANIC CULTURE PRESERVATION LEAGUE - Downloadable PDFs of Vaquero cuisine, saddles, cattle, music, clothing and more.

http://www.rugglesrag.com/
Links at bottom of this site are of Historical Interest, including such articles as "Period Poultry", as well as letters, pictures and information.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/mexico.html
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Mexico and other maps; big, detailed images. From the Uni. of Texas. tvwestern.com gives this site four horsehoes UUUU

California Mining Maps http://www.historicmapsrestored.com/Mining/California.html

California maps 1800s; county maps also available to view. Large images. http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/CA/state.htm

Golden Nugget Library's California Statewide Databases - a large variety of links to newspapers, organizations, railroads and photo albums in the 1800s through the rootsweb.ancestry.com site. A lot to explore. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/state.html

Library of Congress - site with a huge amount of documents and images of the 1800s and more.TVWESTERN.COM'S FAVORITE SITE! UUUU http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Library of Congress; searchable American Memory Map Collection - one of the best collections. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

MONTEREY COUNTY Historical Society - local history. This is the area where Lancer pilot was filmed, and the hacienda is located. http://www.mchsmuseum.com/historypages.html

American Men's Attire http://www.lahacal.org/gentleman/attire.html

http://www.wikipedia.com
WIKIPEDIA - This is THE place to start any research, with links on many pages to more information. tvwestern.com gives this site four horsehoes UUUU Good facts and pictures of guns, clothing, railways, achitecture, places, flora and fauna, horses, saddlery and just about anything you could think of. Some suggested pages are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_wear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Colonial_Revival_Style_architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Single_Action_Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_fashion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_west

. . . and a link at the bottom of this page leads you to:
http://www.antiquebooks.net/readpage.html#frontier
Scanned books viewable onscreen. There are tools to view larger and forward to the next page.

A few titles are: International Causes of death in 1916. A bit macabre, but an intriguing window into medicine in the early 1900s. U.S. Army Regulations from 1861- How to keep your horses and do a siege, among other interesting things. The Frontier, 1908 - History of the real West. A very revealing picture. (I checked out the first pages and discovered a large map.)

Domestic Medicine, 1785. tvwestern.com gives this site four horsehoes UUUU Subjects cover all types of complaints and diseases as well as home remedies and recipes for cures. Consumption, fevers, and lots of health problems I've never even heard of. Most would apply to fic taking place in the 1800s.http://www.americanrevolution.org/medicine.htm

http://www.writing.org/html/articles.htm
Writing.org has reference, rhetoric, publishing, and other Web sites of interest to writers. A collection of "how-to" articles (some with links to third-party Web sites).

http://www.smartphrase.com/Spanish/sp_general_words_phr.shtml
SmartPhrase.com: Spanish phrases, greetings, questions and more.

GRAMMAR - Googling the terms ‘correct grammar usage’ will lead you to a wealth of websites all keen to set you straight on grammar, punctuation and spelling. So whether it’s commas, apostophes or dangling participles that have you losing sleep, don’t give up. Here are a few sites sites (no, not sights nor cites) to get you started.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/
http://www.refdesk.com/factgram.html

Gutenberg Project - BOOKS ONLINE - Electronic books, downloadable in various formats. Many of historical interest. Try searching for California, Missions, Cowboys, etc. in advanced search (by subject). http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.rugglesrag.com/lookout/OLD-LOOKOUT-DO-NOT-USE/a_19th_century_slang_dictionary.htm
A 19th Century Slang Dictionary, links at bottom to guides for re-enactors of the Civil War era. NOTE: this appears to be in an old section of this web site and may not be available. Curse words and more: Humbug? Shecoonery? Useless truck or gum? Hornswoggling? Honey-fuggling?

WESTERN SLANG & PHRASES: A Writer's Guide to the Old West: 1860's ~ 1880's. Being a small compilation drawn from period newspapers, books, and memoirs. If we could listen to Great-great Grandpa, what might come out of his mouth?
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~poindexterfamily/OldWestSlang.html

Omar West's Cowboy Poetry : http://www.cowboypoetry.com

Classic Cowboy Poetry, Poets and musicians, Cowboy poetry topics, Life at the BAR-D Ranch.

The Western Music Association : http://www.westernmusic.org/

The WMA's goal is to keep the spirit and romance of the west alive by ensuring that western music is preserved for future generations as well as carried on by contemporary western artists.  This is the most important resource on the internet for performers and fans of true "Western Music". Supporting the Music of the American Cowboy and the Code of the West.

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