Local (NCSU D. H. Hill Library) Resources for
Cowboys and the American West

1. Dr. Slatta's "So You Want to Study History" Links Includes links to finding aids and primary sources.
2. MF 117 Printed Guide to Western Americana collection [microform] : microfiche collection of 1012 books and documents of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century. Published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1989.
3. MF 117 MICROFICHES 1-5222 Western Americana: an annotated bibliography to the microfiche collection.(Browse the shelf!) D.H. Hill Library - Microforms 5,222 microfiches : 11 x 15 cm.(2nd floor, East Wing)
4. The West [10-part videotape collection.] Producers, Stephen Ives, Jody Abramson and Michael Kantor. Media Collection (2nd floor, West Wing)

   Research Strategies and Finding Aids

5. Using the Library Catalog, conduct a keyword search for "ranch life," "cowboy," "frontier," "western Americana," etc. You'll find primary and secondary sources.
6. E179.5 and F591 Browse the shelves of these two call numbers for lots of works about the American West.
7. Use the e-databases to locate secondary sources: ARTS & HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX; JSTOR ARTS & SCIENCES I COLLECTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES CITATION INDEX
8. Important Journals: Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of the West, Pacific Historical Review, Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, American Indian Quarterly, Canadian Review of American Studies, Hispanic American Historical Review, see also journals published by state historical societies.

Primary and Secondary Sources Online

9. ArchivesUSA Online responsitory of primary sources
10. 19th Century Masterfile
11. Harpweek: Online version of Harper's Weekly, 19th-century magazine
12. Malone, Michael P. and Richard W. Etulain. The American West: a twentieth-century history. Online via NetLibrary
13. White, Richard, "It's your misfortune and none of my own:" a history of the American West. Online via NetLibrary
14. Flanagan, Mike. The complete idiot's guide to the Old West. NetLibrary
15. Klein, Kerwin Lee, Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990. NetLibrary

    Print References and Books

16. Beck, Warren A. and Ynez D. Haase, Historical atlas of the American West. Useful geographical orientation.
17. Walsh, Margaret, The American West : visions and revisions
18. Etulain, Richard W. Does the frontier experience make America exceptional?
19. Ritchie, Robert C. and Paul Andrew Hutton, eds. Frontier and region: essays in honor of Martin Ridge
20. Jacobs, Wilbur R. On Turner's trail: 100 years of writing western history.
21. Udall, Stewart L. The forgotten founders : rethinking the history of the Old West
22. Deverell, William, ed. A companion to the American West
23. Covered wagon women: diaries & letters from the western trails. Multi-volume primary source.

    The following materials may not be available at D. H. Hill. Use Inter-library loan.

24. Scott, Richard, ed. Eyewitness to the Old West: First-Hand Accounts of Exploration, Adventure, and Peril
25. Lewis, Jon E. West: The Making of the American West
26. Fischer, Christiane. Let them speak for themselves : women in the American West, 1849-1900
27. Etulain, Richard W. Western lives : a biographical history of the American West
28. Spence, Mark David. The American West: Peoples, Regions, Frontiers
29. B. Tong & R.A. Lutz, eds. The Human Tradition in the American West