Here are some links to Websites that relate to the material in this chapter. Click around to broaden your understanding of the topics in this section by seeing what’s out there on the Web!

• Summerfield, Kansas
  Several articles provide information about the building of a town and a community.
  

• Commerce On the Prairies
  This site looks at pre-Civil War commerce and life on the frontier between the United States and Mexico.
  

• Sam Houston And The Texas Revolution, 1825-1836
  The events which led up to the revolution and information on Sam Houston, the dynamic leader of the Republic of Texas.
  

• The Era Of The Mountain Men
  Letters from these early settlers west of the Mississippi River.
  

• "California As I Saw It": First-Person Narratives Of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
  This American Memory site is a contains texts andillustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts.
  

• The Donner Party
  This site includes logs from the infamous party that resorted to extreme measures in order to survive.
  

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