PBS
Pbs the West: The Grandest Enterprise Under God
The critically acclaimed PBS series, "The West," depicts the coming of the railroad throughout the west and the consequences of the settling of the west.
Library of Congress
Loc: History of a Buffalo Hunter
A manuscript from the Federal Writers' Project gives an interview with Don Manuel Jesus Vasques, who was hired to hunt buffalo in Texas and Oklahoma. Read his fascinating account of the terrible slaughter of the buffalo on the plains.