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Exploration and Westward Expansion

Explorers, Surveys, and Expeditions

Accordion

Articles

An Artist in the Rockies. Prologue. Spring 2016, Vol. 48, No. 1

In the National Archives Catalog

Field Notes

Photographs

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Hayden Survey, William H. Jackson, Photographs, 1869 - 1878

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Devil's Gate, Oregon Trail

 

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Independence Rock, Wyoming

 

 

In the National Archives Catalog

Photographs

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Photographs taken by John K. Hillers during the Powell Survey and other Geological Surveys, 1879 - 1900

 

In the National Archives Catalog

Photographs

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Photographic Prints Produced During Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (King Survey), 1882 - 1882

 

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Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel from the King Survey, 1867 - 1872

 

In the National Archives Catalog

Photographs

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Wheeler Expedition Stereoscopic Photographs, 1871 - ca. 1874

 

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No 49: Expedition of 1874: Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho, looking through the timber, and showing the main fall, and upper or "Lace Falls".

 

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Geographic Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, 1871 - 1874

 

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Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, 1871 - 1873

 

 

 

Alaska

Articles

The Alaskan Frontier in Panorama: How the National Archives Preserved Early 20th-Century Photographs, Prologue Magazine article, Winter 2009

In the National Archives Catalog

Journals of Explorations, 1842 - 1864 [Lieutenant Lavrentii A. Zagoskin / Captain N. Arkhimandritov]

Arctic

Articles

Women of the Polar Archives The Films and Stories of Marie Peary Stafford and Louise Boyd, Prologue Magazine article, Summer 2010

The Arctic Sketches of Russell W. PorterPrologue Magazine article, Winter 1997

Videos

Building the Peary Monument, arctic expedition 1932

Louise Boyd 1928 Expedition

In the National Archives Catalog

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Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition, Arctic Ocean Latitude 79''-20'N

 

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Elisha K. Kane and group of explorers

 

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Elisha K. Kane, Arctic explorer

 

 

 

In the National Archives Catalog

Report of John C. Fremont

 

Migrations and Migrants

Conflicts and Military

Accordion

Articles

 

Teaching Resources

The Impact of Westward Expansion on Native American Communities

Teaching with Documents Lesson Plan:   Sioux Treaty of 1868

Additional NARA Resources  

Photograph of General George Armstrong Custer, ca. 1862 - 1963

Claims of the State of Minnesota Relating to Indian Wars, 1862 - 1865

Other Resources

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