Subject headings

The Western Americana Collection is driven primarily by subject rather than by author. Therefore, topical subject headings in the catalog records are important.

The following is a list of special subject interests which should get traced if reflected in material being cataloged. For some of the entries I have supplied the commonly used tracings, and have included subfield codes to indicate if a tracing is commonly subdivided that way or is a subdivision itself.

Afro-Americans

Early exploration:

|z    |x Discovery and exploration
    For early exploration only; not for later, but still early "settlement"

Used in addition to specific tribe name

The list below was culled from a list of established Native American headings that were created for the Western Americana recon project. The rest of the entries on the original list can be found in LTLC. The source was the Handbook of American Indians. Parts I-II. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907, 1910.

Kiowa Apache Indians

settled in the Black Hills region of South Dakota, joined with Kiowas and stayed with them when they moved to the southern plains

Pima Indians

use for lower Pima Nevome, Pima Bajos, Indians in Sonora, Mexico and the Yaqui River region

Mines/mining

Mills and mill-work |z
Mineral industries |z
Mines and mineral resources |z

North American Forts

The list below was culled from a list created during the Western Americana recon project. The rest of the entries on the original list can be found in LTLC.

Fort Berthold Indian Mission (N.D.)

set up by the American Missionary Association

Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.)

use for Fort Berthold

Fort Crittenden (Utah)

use for Camp Floyd

Fort Douglas (Utah)

earlier Camp Douglas

Camp Floyd (Utah)

use Fort Crittenden (Utah)

Trace Western photographers and photography studios mentioned as well as the actual producers of the photographs

|z Place |x Pictorial works.

Texas/Spanish Southwest

Tourism

Westward migration

Frontier and pioneer life |z

Used for social history collections concerning the settlement of frontier regions

Usually refers to someone who has pushed out beyond the area of established settlements, someone in a rural setting rather than an urban setting. We haven't linked the use of pioneer to the time before a territory becomes a state, because that isn't the best indicator. Have used Women--California instead of Women pioneers--California in the case of one woman in Stockton in the 1858. Too late to be considered a pioneer.