First we would like to show the photographs taken by Professor James Belich on his recent trip through various settler communities including, the American West, Canada, and his home island of New Zealand.

These are copies of images I took during my trip out to settler communities here in the American West.
Here I have a photo of an american settler family

 Here I have an image of early Arrival in the West, 

And here is an example of an American West settlement pamphlet.

Next, here are some images from my trip up to Canada, first, here is an image of a settler family, 

Next here is an image of early contact in Canada, 

and here is an early example of an immigrant pamphlet in Canada

Last, I would like to finish with my trip home, here is an photograph I took of a Kiwi settler family, 

Then in the archives I found this great image of early Settler contact with a New Zealand indigenous community

And lastly an immigration pamphlet encouraging settler to New Zealand.

Frederick Jackson Turner recently explored the American West on his own road trip from the cavernous abyss of the San Andreas Fault, and throughout the American West.  Here is a collection of his favorite photographs from that trip. 

The frontier provided the crucial ingredients to make Anglo-american democracy soar--wilderness and distance from the east. #Beauty #fertilesoilfordemocracy #Americaisborn

The first people of the West faced the challenge of savage natives. The Frontier offered many hurdles to overcome. 

The american character is born, only on the frontier. #strength #individual #robust

Here are some of Patty Limerick's photos from her recent road trip out west.

Giant Tin can heap found by limerick while driving out in the West. artist, David Emmett Adams and his new interpretation on western art and historical trash.

Also I have some images here from a visit to the Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization center in Southeast Portland, where I got to see first hand the growing definition of trans nationalism in the American west, and ways in which modern immigration demographics continue to shape the western region.

Then I took a road trip between Salt Lake City along the concrete arrows developed in the 1920’s to provide visual navigational aids for for the planes flying the mail route. These arrows are a great example of the ways in which white settlement in the west have shaped the rural landscape in ways not typically discussed among historians.

And lastly here is Limericks collection of real estate themed photographs taken throughout the West: