Frontier Life Links

The Buffalo Soldiers  Learn about the Black soldiers who helped 
police the U.S. frontier after the Civil War!  (Site by the 
International Museum of the Horse)
http://www.imh.org/imh/buf/buftoc.html

The Story of a Female Buffalo Soldier--Cathay Williams, who enlisted 
as a man named "William Cathay."  (Links from The Women's History 
Section of The History Net.)
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/ency/blwh_female_buffalo_soldier.htm?once=true&

The Plains Indians' Fates When the West Was Settled--A site Dedicated to the 
Indians.  (Site by Storm Wolf.)
http://members.tripod.com/~stormwolf_2/sandcreek.html

Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "Eldorado"  (Courtesy of the Poe Society of 
Baltimore!  The poem was previously published in The Works of the 
Late Edgar Allen Poe, 1850, vol. II: p. 45; and  in "Flag of Our 
Union," Boston, 1849.)  (This poem explores a search for an 
imaginary 'golden land'--the search that may have inspired the 
European migration west, as the Spaniards in particular, and later, 
during the Gold Rush, the Europeans in the United States, kept 
searching for a land of gold!)
http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/eldrdoa.htm

Coyote's Adventures on the Great Plains (from Dave Welker's site at 
Indian.org); Coyote was a favorite trickster of the Indians; this story tells 
a fable about how two Indian tribes--the flat-heads and the Brules or Lakotas-
-came into being.
http://www.indians.org/welker/coyotead.htm

Cheyenne Sweat Lodge Ceremony with Prayer--from the Curtis Collection.  Take 
a look at the holistic way the ancient Indians practiced medicine.
http://www.curtis-collection.com/cheyannesweatlodge.html

Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence Describes the Plains Indian Sun Dance--celebrated 
on the Summer Solstice (or day of the year with the longest period of 
daylight)!  With pictures!
http://www.crystalinks.com/sundance.html