Ruth Ann Nordin's Books 

I've gathered some links over the past year to make researching the old American west (around the mid-to-late 1800s) easy to find.  Someimes it helps to have a visual of what things looked like back then.  If you can use this page too, then feel free to!

*I am aware some links repeat, and when I try to remove them, they come back.  I don't want to redo this page, so it'll have to stay as is.  Yes, I am that lazy.  LOL

Useful Web Sites

• Old West Clothing
• Cost of Food Prices and Wages in the 1800s
• Horse-Drawn Vehicles
• How to Harness a Horse (You Tube Video)
• Box stove and Potbelly stove (How they look: A You Tube Video)
• All the stoves: ex. kitchen cookstoves, box stoves (website gives time periods when each was popular too)
• Different Wagons
• Kerosene Lamp
• History of Tractors
• Old West Guns
• History of Plumbing
• Northern Pacific Railway (northwest; ex. north dakota)
• Different Wagons
• Kerosene Lamp
• History of Tractors
• Old West Guns
• History of Plumbing
• Northern Pacific Railway (northwest; ex. north dakota)
• Different Wagons
• Kerosene Lamp
• History of Tractors
• Old West Guns
• History of Plumbing
• Northern Pacific Railway (northwest; ex. north dakota)
• Union Pacific Railroad (west but more south; ex. Nebraska)