Cartoon showing American politicians Stephen A Douglas , former President Franklin Pierce , President James Buchanan and Lewis Cass forcing slavery...
An illustration describing the expedition through the Western part of America by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Original Artwork: From 'Journal...
Engraving of 'The Rocky Mountains' from the Worthington Whittredge painting, showing the westward expansion of settlers through Colorado after the...
'Pilgrims On The Plains', a lithograph by Theo R. Davis 1869, showing a wagon train encampment, with the wagons in a circle, during the westward...
Engraving with the caption 'The Summer Rendezvous,' the annual rendezvous between mountain men and fur company agents. Oregon, USA, date unknown. .
Illustration depicting the blizzard on the Northern Plains in 1877, showing a number of wagons and dead cattle in the snow. USA, circa 1877. .
Oklahoma Avenue looking west, Guthrie, Oklahoma, photographed by Mitchell and DeGroff, showing crowds and tents. Guthrie, Oklahoma, USA, 27 April...
Illustration titled 'The Rocky Mountains. Emigrants Crossing The Plains,' depicting a wagon train passing through the mountains. USA, date unknown. .
Westward move via the Ohio River: Family on raft leaving in makeshift tent. Steel engraving. Undated.
Moving Day During the Westward Migration. Woodcut by Th. R. Davis, 1869. What a difference between the primitive "long distance vans" of today and...
Color map, entitled 'Map No 7, the Territorial Growth of the United States, 1783 - 1866,' shows the country's westward expansion and illustrates the...
Brigadier General Thomas Ewing of the Union Army evicts Missouri settlers from counties along the Kansas border. Original Artwork: Engraving by...
Meeting of the Workingmen's Party on the sandlot opposite San Francisco city hall. The party was formed during a recession and gave expression to the...
Map of the 'New West' of the USA showing states admitted to the Union before the Civil War and those admitted during and after.
The trading post of Grand Portage on Lake Superior, Minnesota, from which Simon McTavish and partners ran a profitable fur company in the late 18th...
American explorer John C Fremont planting the American flag on the Rocky Mountains. In 1856 Fremont was the first Presidential nominee of the newly...
Illustration depicting 'The Bar of a Gambling Saloon,' with men standing at the bar, and a drunk slumped in a chair. USA, date unknown.
Illustration captioned 'On The Way To The Summit,' depicting the Donner Party, a group of California-bound American emigrants caught up in the...
Series of illustrations titled 'Crossing The Plains,' from 'Hutchins Panoramic Scenes,' depicting 'Emigrant train passing Wind River Mountain,'...
Engraving after a drawing by Francis Blackwell Mayer, 'A Toll Gate on the Baltimore-Reister town Road,' depicting people and wagons at the toll gate....
Painting by Mary Wright Gill depicts the Shalako ceremony of the Zuni tribe, early 1900s . The ceremony is held, in part, to give thanks for the...
Couple pose with their dog outside their home, which appears to be insulated with bricks of sod, late 1800s or early 1900s.
Woman holds an infant in her arms as she poses in front of a claim shack, early 1910s. The structure, mostly walled in tar paper, served to lay claim...
Three people, a man and two women, sit on the roof of a claim shack somewhere on the Great Plains in the American midwest, early 1910s. The...
Family of prosperous and sturdy pioneers poses for a group portrait outside their habitat, Western US, late 19th Century.
Many styles of dress and many interesting types are to be seen in the above photograph, made in 1886 when the first of the immigrant trains rushed...
View of a handful of buildings, in a small frontier town on the Plains, during America's westward expansion era, nineteenth century.
View of a general merchandise store and other buildings in a frontier town on the Plains, during America's westward expansion era, nineteenth century.
Members of an American expedition through the Rocky Mountains led by Major Stephen Long , listening to the members of a council of the Pawnee tribe.
Crowd gathering around a man reading the news of American successes in Mexico which led to the ceding to the United States of California and New...
Studio portrait of American pioneer Calamity Jane , wearing a fringed leather jacket, leather pants, and a cowboy hat, holding a rifle while sitting...
Theodore Roosevelt , the twenty-sixth President of the United States, with the Scottish born American conservationist John Muir on Glacier Point in...
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden's survey camp near Pelican Creek, fifteen miles east of Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming. Photograph by William Henry Jackson
Dakota ranch house belonging to a well-to-do family. Signs of wealth include the side porch and second storey, the mechanical hayrake and mowing...
Family pose with their wagon in Loup Valley, Nebraska, on their way to their new homestead. The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed any citizen over the...
Captain Clark and his men shooting bears. Original Artwork: From 'Journal of Voyages' by Peter Gass - pub 1811
Illustration shows a representation of settlers on horses and in wagons during the land rush into Oklahoma, 1889.
Map illustration showing the distribution of the population across the United States in 1870, published in 1920. Population density is measured in...
Treasury Warrant issued in the Amount of $7.2 Million for the U.S. Purchase of Alaska Territory from Russian Empire after signed treaty of March 30...
Rollin' Westward, lobbycard, from left: Horace Murphy, Tex Ritter, Hank Worden, Charles King, Slim Whitaker, 1939.
Poster advertising the Oregon Stage Coach Line's overland mail route from Portland, Oregon, to Sacramento, California, 1866. The journey takes six...
Captioned 'Where marriage on the claim is a success,' comic photograph shows a woman as she uses a washing board in a metal tub as a man in a suit...