This collection of documents and images is from PBS Online's "Archives of the West 18681874" from the documentary "New Perspectives on the West" The documentation includes government legislation cowboy songs a defense of the Mormon practice of plural marriage and a firsthand account of life as a buffalo runner The collection of twenty photographs and captions feature the construction of the transcontinental railroads cowboys and buffalo hunts and expeditions and surveys This resource is referenced in the EDSITEment lesson titled "I Hear the Locomotives The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad"