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West (U.S.)

Region comprising the westernmost states of the United States

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Images referencing West (U.S.)

5 images from works
  • Illustrations of the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians; in a series of letters and notes. Written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing / With three hundred and sixty engravings, from the author's original paintings. By Geo. Catlin.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians / by Geo. Catlin ; written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America. In 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.
  • North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.

Works from the collections

34 works

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    The western cholera trail : studies in the urban response to epidemic disease in the trans-Mississippi West, 1848-1850 / by Mitchel Philip Roth.

    Roth, Mitchel Philip. | Date: 1993
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    Across God's frontiers : Catholic sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 / Anne M. Butler.

    Butler, Anne M., 1938- | Date: [2012], ©2012
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    Daughters of joy, sisters of misery : prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90 / Anne M. Butler.

    Butler, Anne M., 1938- | Date: [1985], ©1985
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    The life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and his narrative of explorations and adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California / the memoir by Samuel M. Smucker.

    Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890. | Date: 1856
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    The western wonder-land : half-hours in the western United States / by Harold Wellman Fairbanks.

    Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman), 1860- | Date: 1905

Related topics

History, 19th Century
Indians, North American
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Frontier and pioneer life
Expeditions
United States
Indians, North American

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