American Frontier & Gilded Age

Research collection covering the American West, frontier communities, and the Gilded Age era.

• Kansas — settlement, politics, frontier life
• Railroads — construction, economics, social impact
• Cowtowns — Abilene, Dodge City, Wichita
• Settlement — homesteading, land rush, agriculture
• Frontier communities — law and order, social structure

Research notes will appear here as they are added.