This eclectic set of government and tourism sites contains some serious historical information, but they are included
primarily to represent some of many ways in which the continuing myths surrounding the "white wild West" are perpetuated in the public imagination.
- Alaska: Virtual Juneau
- Arizona Guide
- Atomic Tourism Attracting perhaps an untypical tourist, but the West has been the main site of the development of the US atomic weapons programs.
- California Dreaming
- Colorado Adventure
- Nevada Complete
- Washington State tourism
- Wyoming Companion
- Montana's Gold West Marketing a less famous gold rush.
- Oregon: Central Oregon Directory A softer sell, but still the wild west.
- New Mexico magazine The glossy west.
- Dodge City Classic wild west town site.
- Los Angeles: Past, Present & Future Is a virtual LA redundant? This rich site from the Unversity of Southern California offers an imaginative alternative to standard western storytelling.
- California: official site of City of Los Angeles Multiculturalism on full display in one of the US's most "diverse" cities.
- Los Angeles: A Vist to Old LA
- Los Angeles in the Jazz Age, 1927-34
- San Francisco history Excellent index of links.
- San Francisco: Emperor NortonSite for one of SF's most famous Gold Rush era eccentrics.
- Utah: Guide to Moab Ecotourism at its most contradictory.
- USA TouristA typical commerial tourism site tthat gives a good sense of how important the "wild West" remains for national and international tourists. Six of the thirteen items on the pulldown menu for "US Culture" are western, including "Cattle Drives," "Rhinestone Cowboys," "Native American Indians," "Native American Indian Culture," "Country and Western Music, and "American Chili."