Things I researched for my NaNo novel

- Northern Pacific Railroad route
- hat wearing for women in 1870
- Haywood County, Tennessee
- hunting of buffalo to near-extinction in the 19th century
- Union Pacific train timetables
- maps of the Union Pacific in Wyoming
- the symptoms of cholera and typhoid
- ghost towns in Wyoming
- how to plant cotton
- the Southern equivalent of a tavern
- the economic vitality of Cairo, Illinois after the Civil War
- what percentage of soldiers in Tennessee fought for the North (a surprising amount)
- the length of a corset in late 1860s
- visible changes to a woman's body in the fourth month of pregnancy
- the waist of housedresses in 1870
- the distance between North Platte, NE and Chimney Rock
- a 19th century wedding ceremony
- what was hung inside a covered wagon
- what quantities flour came in
- economic foundations of Southwestern Wyoming
- mileposts on the Oregon Trail
- the date of Nebraska's statehood
- common hymns and songs in the late 19th century
- the first female doctor in Oregon
- the date of the last wagon train to cross South Pass (highly debated)
- how to cook bread over a fire

...and much, much more. Plenty of information can be provided on all of these.