About a year ago I posted a website for a project called "Native Sons and Daughters - New Yorkers in the Westward Migration". This project was designed a few years ago to be a statewide cooperative effort - one of the State Historian's research themes for local government historians. The project wasn't going anywhere, and I thought it needed a little boost.

I designed the website to make the project a little more interesting and a lot more visible. Initially it was meant to attract short illustrated essays from some of the 1,600 officially appointed local government historians (town and county) across New York. But now I think it merits being opened up to everyone with a local story to tell - about someone who had an impact on the history of the West, but who was really a New Yorker.

Visit the site at: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/history/native/index.html

Check the guidelines for submittng essays at: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/history/native/instructions.html
and  please send in your bits. I will post them to this website and we can all begin to see it grow.

For starters, would anyone like to write up a short essay one of two icons of the Old West - Frederick Remington and George Catlin? Both New Yorkers!

Philip Lord, Jr.
Director, Division of Museum Services
New York State Museum
Albany, NY
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Website: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/services.html