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Orofino, ID
A Nez Perce National Historical Park site near Orofino where the Nez Perce helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition build dugout canoes for the westward journey in 1805.
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Rossville, GA
A preserved Cherokee-associated log house in Rossville connected to Principal Chief John Ross and the history that culminated in Cherokee removal along the Trail of Tears.
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Rome, GA
The National Historic Landmark home of Cherokee leader Major Ridge, interpreting the Ridge family, the Treaty of New Echota, and the difficult choices surrounding Cherokee removal.
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Chatsworth, GA
An exceptionally preserved early nineteenth-century Cherokee mansion that interprets the Vann family, Cherokee life, enslavement, and the pressures that preceded forced removal.
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Cleburne, TX
An open-air frontier village in Cleburne that preserves the cattle-trail heritage and early civic history of Johnson County.
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Grass Valley, CA
A preserved hard-rock mining complex where visitors can explore the industrial workings, elegant estate, and landscaped grounds of one of California’s richest gold mines.
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Fort Smith, AR
A frontier-era National Park Service site where a military post, federal court, jail, and gallows illuminate U.S. expansion, Indian Territory, and Judge Isaac C. Parker's court.
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Fort Worth, TX
A preserved livestock district where historic buildings, rodeo traditions, and twice-daily longhorn cattle drives keep Fort Worth's Western heritage alive.
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Little Rock, AR
A preserved downtown Little Rock city block where restored frontier-era buildings, living history, and Arkansas-made art reveal the state's early history and creative traditions.
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Washington, AR
A remarkably preserved Arkansas town where historic buildings, museums, and living-history programs bring the state's nineteenth-century story to life.
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Kamiah, ID
A roadside interpretive site near Kamiah marking where the Lewis and Clark Expedition spent four weeks among the Nez Perce while waiting for mountain snow to melt in 1806.
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Hartford, IL
An Illinois historic site at Camp Dubois interpreting the Corps of Discovery's 1803–1804 winter preparations before the Lewis and Clark Expedition headed west.
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Nevada City, CA
A dramatic Gold Rush landscape where immense hydraulic-mining cliffs, a preserved mining town, and forest trails reveal both the ambition and environmental cost of nineteenth-century mining.
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Coloma, CA
The Coloma site where James W. Marshall’s 1848 gold discovery ignited the California Gold Rush and transformed the American West.
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Little Rock, AR
An immersive museum on Little Rock's historic West Ninth Street preserving and celebrating African American history, culture, entrepreneurship, and achievement in Arkansas.
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Fort Worth, TX
The world's only museum devoted to honoring the women whose courage, skill, creativity, and leadership shaped the American West.
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Calhoun, GA
The preserved site of the Cherokee Nation's nineteenth-century capital, where national government, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Treaty of New Echota, and the road to removal converged.
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Salmon, ID
A 71-acre cultural and interpretive center in Salmon exploring Sacajawea, the Agaidika Shoshone-Bannock people, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the Lemhi Valley.
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