The American Guide Series

Here you'll find the American Guide Series, over 35,000 pages of state & local tour guides compiled by WPA workers and local volunteers during the 1930's (see About The Guides). Our County Heritage Guides will share the same format; we don't have federal workers, but we do have the Internet!

 Now online are the following Guides:

Arizona: A State Guide (1940)

Colorado: A Guide to the Highest State (1941)

Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture (1937)

Montana: A State Guide Book (1939)

Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State (1940)

North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State (1938)

South Dakota: A South Dakota Guide (1938)

Wyoming:A Guide to its History, Highways and People (1941)

Coming soon - the following guides & many more!

New Mexico: A Guide to the Colorful State (1940)

Utah: A Guide to the State (1941)

Kansas: A Guide to the Sunflower State (1939)

Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State (1939)

California:

Oregon:

Washington:

Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State (1941)  

Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State (1940)