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- The American West
The American West includes materials from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago. The collection includes a wide range of primary source materials, such as manuscripts, maps, broadsides, and a variety of ephemeral works.
-Papers of early pioneers, explorers and hunters are well represented, including items such as the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon.
-Canada and the Pacific Northwest are well documented including accounts of the Gold Rush and of the landscape.
-The evolution of Western towns can be seen through materials such as prospectuses and city directories.
-The growth of railway and road networks can be explored through maps and through records of key railroad companies.
-Emigrants guides, manuscript travel journals, store catalogues, illustrations and maps enable scholars to understand the phenomenon of Westward expansion.
-Accounts of ranches and of the prairie lands document the agricultural transformation of the West.
-There are rich resources for the study of Texas, Mexico and the South.
-Literary and historical works – as well as contemporary newspapers and posters - enable a better understanding of the real and mythic West – with first hand accounts of the lives of vigilantes and outlaws.
-Native American history and culture is also very well documented.
-Original manuscripts, ephemeral material (trade cards, wanted posters, photos, claim certificates, news-sheets etc), maps, and rare printed works.
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