ACMAA American Art Connections Center
15 items | 10 visits
Yee haw! Nothing says the West like a rip-snortin' web page filled with information about life on the range.
Updated on May 08, 17
Created on Dec 12, 13
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The Portal to Texas History - University of North Texas. Features more than 16,000 historical items that showcase Texas' diverse cultural heritage. Seventeen institutions, consisting of large and small public libraries, universities, private family collec
Sid Richardson Museum. Each work of art is accompanied by interesting information about Charles Russell and his art.
Artchive. Read an insightful excerpt from "Great Masterpieces by Frederic Remington", by Louis Chapin along with links to images.
Sid Richardson Museum of Art. Our downtown Fort Worth neighbor has an excellent collection with images and support information about these two iconic american artists. Highly recommended.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Explores the work of Texas cowboy and photographer Erwin Smith. Includes TEKS-correlated lessons and an overview of cowboy life, using Smith's photographs as illustration. Highly recommended.
American Memory, Library of Congress. Illustrates Colorado towns and landscapes, this history of mining in the state, and shows the lives of more than 40 Native American tribes from 1860 to 1920.
University of North Texas Libraries. This online initiative shoud be the second place a TX history teacher goes to online. Images, documents, oral histories, obscure information, and more added all the time.
An interactive map with links to various exhibits on Texas history and culture.
Natl Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. How do you measure a horse? How does a horse see? How about some books I can share with students that talk about the women of the west? Look to this page for this and more.
cowboyup.com Offers the Hollywood version of cowboy ethics, from John Wayne to Hopalong Cassidy to the Lone Ranger. This is what most of us think of when we think of "cowboy."
Florida Museum of Science and History. Get your STEM class going with this great website dedicated to the development of the horse. Horses played a huge role in the West and still are important partners in ranch and cattle management.
discoverseaz.com. Taken from an article written and illustrated by Frederic Remington in the magazine "The Century, A Popular Quarterly," Volume 37, Issue 3, January 1889.
Legends of America.com. This is an "aces-high" alphabetical list of phrases used. Although there are ads, the content is in "apple pie order." It's time to sound like a cowpoke - and a granny.
The University of North Texas - The Portal to Texas History. UNT has made a big difference in primary source availability for Texas teachers. This resource offers three oral histories as a springboard for teaching about the ranching and cattle industries.
silentfilmhouse. A brief look at Edweard Muybridge's historic animal motion studies - this one focuses on the buffalo.
ACMAA American Art Connections Center
15 items | 10 visits
Yee haw! Nothing says the West like a rip-snortin' web page filled with information about life on the range.
Updated on May 08, 17
Created on Dec 12, 13
Category: Not Categorized
URL: