Dandelions by Eve Bunting - Moving West Connections

Explore the States: Nebraska (America’s Library)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ne

Northern Great Plains: Sod Homes (American Memory Collection)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/hult_sod.html

Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters (American Memory Collection) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html

Colton’s Kansas and Nebraska (1855 map) (Maps Collection)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g4200+ct000891))

Kate Dunlap’s Diary (1865 diary) (Pages From Her Story - Learning Page Activity) http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/pages_herstory/civilwar.html

Millions of Acres. Iowa and Nebraska (1872 broadside from An American Time Capsule Collection)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+13401300))

Western Expansion & Reform (1829-1859)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform

What was the historical significance of the Lewis and Clark expedition? What impact did it have on the growth of the nation...and on its Native American inhabitants?
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/lewisandclark/index.html

These two collections from the Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota State University contain 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images of sod homes and the people who built them; images of farms and the machinery that made them prosper; and images of one-room schools and the children that were educated in them.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html