Electronic Web Sources for Early American Literature

Westward Expansion & Travel Literature

American Journeys
"American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later." Wisconsin Historical Society
American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
Library of Congress
Louisiana Purchase Treaty, April 30, 1803
National Archives
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Ken Burns, PBS
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
Discovering Lewis & Clark
From Discovering Lewis & Clark®
Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
The National Council of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial
The West
PBS