http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/seven_wonders/launch_ani_fall_transcontinental.shtml

http://www.historynet.com/
search engine

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1860.htm
Timeline  American History 1869-1870

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/timeline/index.html
Timeline railroad history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad_(North_America)#History
Great one page summary

http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history
United Pacific railroad 1986-

http://www.cprr.org
Central Pacific railroad online museum

http://www.csrmforg
California State railroad museum

http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/building_of_the_transcontinental.htm
The building of the Trans continental railroad

http://www.ilstu.edu/~eebohm/Railroad%20Geography.htm
Transcontinental Railroad geography

http://www.nps.gov/gosp/tour/route.html
route of the railroad

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrintro.html
Railroad maps

http://www.nps.gov/gosp/
Golden Spike National Park Service

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/riseind/chinimms/chinimms.html
Chinese immigration 1850 - 100

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/china1.cfm
Chinese immigration and the transcontinental railroad

http://brownvboard.org/brwnqurt/01-3/01-3f.htm
The Chinese and the transcontinental railroad

http://bushong.net/dawn/about/college/ids100/workers.shtml
Chinese in California

Irish Immigration

http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html
Central Pacific Railroad photographic museum

http://www.nevadahumanities.org/encyclopedia/Irish_VC.htm
Irish Immigrants Nevada History

http://cprr.org/Museum/
Irish Immigrants

http://www.ailf.org/ipc/policy_reports_2001_Irish2.asp
Who were the Irish immigrants?

http://www.nps.gov/gosp/research/construction.htm
National Park Service

http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/texts/schmidtd/irish_cemetery.html
Irish life was hard

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/indian.htm
Indian Wars

http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/plains.html
Plains Indian culture

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/cessions/
Living history project - Indian land cession

http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/phothana.html
Pawnee photographs

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/cessions/
Plains Indian land

http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1958/22097/plain2.html
Settlers

http://www.americanwest.com/pages/wexpansi.htm
Westward expansion

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/may20.html
Homestead Act

http://heritage.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/query.hts?type=6&tid=45
setters and stress and privacy

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/overhome.html
Library of Congress - letters and diaries of settlers 1860-1880

http://library.thinkquest.org/6400/songs.htm
Pioneer music

http://www.ukans.edu/heritage/owk/128/forts.html
Kansas forts

http://www.over-land.com/westfort.html
many links to historical forts

 http://www.buffalosoldier.net/
buffalo soldiers

http://www.ida.net/users/lamar/historicfort.html
Forts of the American west

http://www.history-magazine.com/cavalry.html
U.S. Calvary