Incoming Resources
- The West, Ken Burns presents a film by Stephen Ives ; directed by Stephen Ives ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward & Dayton Duncan ; produced by Stephen Ives, Jody Abramson, Michael Kantor ; a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV Washington in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television, Disc four
- Cowboy, [discover the real-life world of working cowboys-- from longhorns and lariats to chuckwagons, chaps, rodeos and ranches], written by David H. Murdoch ; photographed by George Brightlimg
- Great Plains, Ian Frazier
- A shovel of stars, the making of the American West, 1800 to the present, Ted Morgan
- Lasso the wind, away to the New West, Timothy Egan
- Into the west, causes and effects of U.S. westward expansion, by Terry Collins
- A life wild and perilous, mountain men and the paths to the Pacific, Robert M. Utley
- The cowboy, an unconventional history of civilization on the old-time cattle range, by Philip Ashton Rollins ; foreword by Richard W. Slatta
- The perils of the Santa Fe Trail, by Jean K. Williams
- Westward ho!, the story of the pioneers, by Lucille Recht Penner ; illustrated by Bryn Barnard
- Way out west, by Jane & Michael Stern
- Cowboys, mountain men, and grizzly bears, fifty of the grittiest moments in the history of the wild West, Matthew P. Mayo
- The West that was, edited by Thomas W. Knowles and Joe R. Lansdale
- On the old western frontier, by R. Conrad Stein
- This ol' drought ain't broke us yet (but we're all bent pretty bad), stories of the American West, Jim Garry
- Cowboys didn't always wear hats, exposing myths about the wild west, Jill Keppeler
- People of the West, by Dayton Duncan; with an introduction by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns
- The West, by Dana Meachen Rau
- Dangerous passage, the Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War, by William Y. Chalfant ; foreword by Marc Simmons ; illustrations by Mont David Williams
- The Great Plains
- Cowhand, the story of a working cowboy
- The West of the USA, California, Nevada
- Cowboy, the illustrated history, Richard W. Slatta
- The Chisholm Trail, Andrew Santella
- The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860, by Ray Allen Billington
- The Dust Bowl, disaster on the plains, by Tricia Andryszewski
- American cowgirls, yesterday and today, Shaaron Cosner
- Ordeal by hunger, the story of the Donner Party, by George R. Stewart
- Bill O'Reilly's legends & lies, the real West, written by David Fisher
- Spanish missions, Bobbie Kalman & Greg Nickles
- Vaquero, Heather Miller ; traducción de Carlos Prieto
- Mountain blood, Will Baker
- Writing the trail, five women's frontier narratives, by Deborah Lawrence
- The Chisholm Trail in American history, William R. Sanford
- A day in the life of a cowhand, Fluent, Diana Herweck
- More than cowboys, travels through the history of the American west, Tim Slessor
- The Missouri River, by Leon Gray
- The mammoth book of the West, Jon E. Lewis
- Changing plains environments, Lisa Idzikowski
- Frontiers, a short history of the American West, Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher
- The Wild west on 5 bits a day, Joan Tapper
- Cowboys, Indians, and gunfighters, the story of the cattle kingdom, Albert Marrin ; illustrated in full color and black and white with prints, paintings, photographs, and map
- The year of decision, 1846, by Bernard De Voto
- The West, Ken Burns presents a film by Stephen Ives ; directed by Stephen Ives ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward & Dayton Duncan ; produced by Stephen Ives, Jody Abramson, Michael Kantor ; a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV Washington in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television, Disc five
- Cowboy, the enduring myth of the Wild West, by Russell Martin ; design and art direction by Hans Teensma
- The legacy of conquest, the unbroken past of the American West, Patricia Nelson Limerick
- Ghost towns of the American West, Raymond Bial
- Window on the West, the Frontier photography of William Henry Jackson, by Laurie Lawlor
- Legends and lies, great mysteries of the American West, Dale L. Walker
- The West, Ken Burns presents a film by Stephen Ives ; directed by Stephen Ives ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward & Dayton Duncan ; produced by Stephen Ives, Jody Abramson, Michael Kantor ; a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV Washington in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television, Disc two