The following presentations are available for download as a Microsoft Powerpoint document:

• Essential Questions (Sue's Presentation): A discussion of the characteristics, differences, and effective classroom implementation of Essential Questions (EQ) and Historical Questions (HQ).

• The West From Two Feet Off the Ground: A journey through images of children on the Overland Trails, presented by Professor West.

• Framing the West as a Tourist Region: Did transportation technologies and infrastructures frame "the West" as a tourist region?

• The Central Pacific Route: How did transportation facilitate or hinder change in the West? How did the region's geography shape a distinctive transportation history?

• Reno's Transportation Landscape: A presentation on the redefinition of the land. How did various transportation technologies produce their own distinctive "transportation landscapes" and corridors?