The early explorers: Coronado ; The Verendryes ; Lewis and Clark ; Zebulon Pike
The fur traders: The Missouri River men ; Astoria ; The Rocky Mountain Fur Company ; The American Fur Company
The great trails: The Santa Fe Trail ; The Gila route and the Old Spanish Trail ; The Oregon Trail ; The Great Salt Lake and California Trails
The missions: The Catholics in the Southwest ; The Methodists in Oregon ; Whitman and Spalding ; Father de Smet ; The Mormons in Utah
Fremont's explorations: The Wind River Mountain exploration, 1842-1843 ; Great Salt Lake, Columbia River, and California, 1843-1844 ; The Mexican War, 1845-1847 ; The first private venture, 1848-1849 ; The last expedition, 1853-1854
The gold discoveries: California ; Nevada ; Colorado ; Montana ; Idaho ; The freight, express and stage lines, and the pony express
The soldier and the settler: The Bozeman Trail ; The Cheyenne uprising ; The Apaches ; The Sioux ; Chief Joseph ; The Utah Indians ; The Modocs
Cows and cowboys: The long drive ; The cowboy
The railroads: The preliminary surveys ; The Union-Central Pacific ; The Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroads ; The Northern Pacific ; The Great Northern.
Illustrations: Chimney Rock in 1910: Ezra Meeker retracing the Oregon Trail (Nebraska)
The old and the new [ automobile and covered wagon ]: Ezra Meeker, in 1910, going over the Oregon Trail in the same style of wagon and with oxen as he did in 1850
The Oregon Trail [ ruts ] (Western Wyoming)
Monument to Kit Carson in Santa Fe, New Mexico
A Kit Carson and early pioneer monument erected in Denver, 1911
Fetterman Massacre monument
A bucking bronco. "Silver City" mastered / J.E. Stimson
Roping cattle on the plains / J.E. Stimson
Dale Creek Bridge (Wyoming).
Maps: The paths of the early explorers
The long drive and the Bozeman Road.
