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(welcome continued)
The Western Trails Project has digitized 1000 items of photographs,
text, maps, and video that may be searched or browsed in a variety
of ways, including by subject, creator, title and date. Detailed
descriptions of the images are provided in detailed cataloged records
and the interpretive exhibits explore themes from the collections.
The University of Wyoming’s collections for digitization for
the Western Trails include:
- A 1911 University of Wyoming
History Thesis on the Bozeman with 34 photographs and a hand-drawn
map
(3.15mb pdf file). 
- Fourteen maps of the Oregon and Bozeman Trails drawn from the
collections of the UW Libraries. Get help viewing these images
here.
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- 1867 and1868
diaries and transcripts of Bozeman Trail paymaster Robert Dunlap
Clarke.
(1867 10.4mb pdf file)
(1868 3.29mb pdf file)
- A 1976 motion picture, “The
First Road West: The Oregon Trail Through Wyoming," produced
by the Wyoming Recreation Commission.
- 40 page transcript of 1869
journal and 64 watercolors and sketches of 1868 trip across
the U.S. on the transcontinental railroad.
(4.34mb pdf file).
- Photographs, artwork, and text of Wyoming Historian Grace Raymond
Hebard, who authored a history of the Bozeman Trail and was active
in placing markers along the Bozeman and Oregon Trails. View four
oversized items from her papers. Get help viewing these images
here.
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- 1854 Diary and Transcript
of an overland journey from Wisconsin to California kept by Charlotte
Allis.
(Diary 2.8mb pdf file)
(Transcript 3.6mb pdf file)
- 1859 Diary and Transcript
of William Gordon, a doctor who traveled overland from Missour
to California.
(Diary 12mb pdf file)
(Transcript 6.6mb pdf file)
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