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Most of the songs in this series were popular in the USA between 1840 and the 1880s. A lot of them have to do with the Oregon Trail, the Gold Rush, and the great migration to the western states in the mid-19th Century. Here are some helpful online resources encountered by David and Rocky in their many research journeys.
David and his pal Rocky in Wyoming,
way back in the late 20th Century
GETTING TO OREGON
Wikipedia Timeline of the Old West
Steamboat Times- history of the riverboat era
ONLINE ARCHIVES
Archive.org- treasure trove of everything
Victorian Web- vast Victorian era resources
Pioneer Food- www.foodtimeline.org
Inflation Calculator 1800-2015
1850s-1860s Hotel Restaurant Menus
19th CENTURY SONG RESOURCES
Music of the 1860s (Civil War Trust website)
Mudcat.org Good source of old lyrics
Stephen Foster Archives at U. of Pittsburgh
More than 60 Songs Mentioned in the
"Little House
on the Prairie" book series
19th CENTURY SHEET MUSIC
Huge collections of freely downloadable pdfs.
Levy Collection at Johns Hopkins U.
Sheet Music Consortium at UCLA
Library of Congress Collection 1820–1860
A year-by-year list of the more than 130
songs in the
Northwest Troubadour series
