South/Western Links
of greater or lesser utility or interest

• US Library Of Congress American Folklife Center
• Anthology: Literary Tradition Of The American West *
• Massive list of links: Myths, Legends, Folklore Database *
• J.F. Dobie's Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest
• That Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• Don't miss Roughing It * by Mark Twain



• Local history: Riverside & San Bernadino Counties, Calif
• Googling for Ghost Towns and Calico Ghost Town
• MegaMystery's Ghost Town and Death Valley links
• In California and Nevada: 600 Ghost Towns!
• Great map sites: Trails To The Gold Rush
• A dynamic California Gold Country map *
• A great site on the Overland Trail and
  many links on Western Stagecoach Travel



• Dick Oakes' great PHANTOM RANCH site
  and his DESERT RAT SCRAP BOOK page
• Bad news: The Deserts Are Getting Stomped
• For a good time, call the Death Valley 49ers *
• Croatian site re: The Wild West (good songs!)
• John Malcolm Penn's songs of SoCal history
  (check out Pegleg Smith Liars Contest)



• Some more links: Introduction To Cowboys
• My SkeptiPot blog of links re: Indian pottery etc.
• From the Philadelphia Print Shop:
  many Views of California and the American Frontier
• The Vegas Vintage Postcard Museum, pardner
• The CalNeva Old West Art Gallery, sucker
• Uh, well, yeah: The Prospector Limerick *

What all this led to:   my NEWS

• RiverRat ScrapBook (Sonoma Cownty News)
• Ridge Rat News: #1 #2 #2a #3 #4 #5
• Doubtful News: SkeptiNews
• Edible News: EatIt! #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
• Odd Sightings: Sk.Agog!

Who else is there:   OTHER RATS

• Area51: The Groom Lake Desert Rat
• Morris Team: White Rats Scrapbook
• Designer Lab Coats: TheLabRat.Com *
• Bastards: RatBastards Scrapbook *
• Spaced: I WAS AN ALIEN LAB RAT *
• FunRiot: The Mr. Rat Scrapbook

And then there are: mall rats, pool rats, lake rats, wall rats, rock rats, road rats, bike rats, dirt rats, fire rats, cube rats, roof rats, sex rats, ranch rats, tundra rats, etc.