The Oregon Trail:

Related Sites

• On AS@UVA:

  • Virgin land: the American West as Symbol and Myth by Henry Nash Smith with additonal hypertext extensions.

  • The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner.

  • History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley and Parkman. The classic modern study of the great American historians of the nineteenth century.

• On the Web:

  • The Donner Party from PBS.

  • The Iron Road from PBS