WEB LINKS
 

www.dakotaexperience.org/cvfrontier The Museum of the South Dakota State Historical Society offers an on-line exhibit entitled The Dakota Experience that provides information on life in Deadwood during the gold-rush era.

http://history.sd.gov/Museum/education/edkits.aspx The Museum of the South Dakota State Historical Society offers a variety of education kits on various topics:

Homesteading
Cowboy and Ranch Life
South Dakota Immigrants

http://history.sd.gov/archives/education/census/default.aspx The South Dakota State Historical Society Archives offers a yearly activity called the Fourth Grade Census Project in which students answer questions and compile data to see how a census works.

www.sdshspress.com The South Dakota State Historical Society Press publishes and sells a wide variety of South Dakota history-related books.

www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html This site details the history of the automobile.

americanhistory.mrdonn.org/index.html Cowboys, homesteading, and frontier transportation are all covered under the "Western Expansion" heading.

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