http://www.biercephile.com

I found this web site to be one of the most helpful in my web page construction project due to its simplistic explanations and overall information. It has sections for different aspects of everything to do with Bierce. The most useful headings were the following: "The Life of Bierce," "The Death of Bierce," and "Bierce Places." This site provided me with the largest part of my information about Bierce's life. It had a detailed account of his jobs, relationships, and troubles. It identifies the dedication to Bierce's place of birth, as well as his most believed place of death. This site also listed the various theories of Bierce's death. Many are quite similar and end with a reasonable outcome, while some are a bit outlandish and cannot even be taken seriously. I believe this site would provide a person with a very balanced and accurate account of Bierce's life, death, and all around experiences.

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Bierce.htm 

Even though this site is a bit short, I felt it explained a little more about Bierce's time with the San Francisco Examiner, a number of his counterparts, and some of his personal feelings at that time. Its most obvious feature is a quite lengthy quote. But if read, gives you a bit of an understanding of some of Bierce's thoughts about people. It explains that Bierce does not believe that the principles and beliefs are to be blamed. It is people and their own conduct. You cannot fear or hate crime, but the criminals themselves. He explains that sin is blamed and cursed, but everyday the real fault, the sinner, is not at all scorned or scolded. It also relates Bierce to other writers in his time, like Twain, London, and Crane. This site provided a very detailed view of Bierce's personality and writings, but not anything concerning the other parts of his existence. Overall, this page is just good for its quote--which is rather informative and worth the time.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bierce.htm 

Like the first source, this page included a good overall view of Bierce. But a few differences gave a better view of certain information. The main difference I saw was the better, more detailed account of Bierce's parents and childhood. It also talks of Bierce's relationships with other writers in his time. Stephen Crane, the writer of The Red Badge of Courage, was one man Bierce did not like nor respect. This article explains more about his feelings. Also, it provides information about his stories and collections. Some of the more popular stories have brief overviews or experiences that possibly inspired the specific stories. The effects of his marriage in his writing are also listed in greater detail than other sources I used. Various quotes explaining his feelings toward certain experiences are also used and add more insights into his thoughts. Overall, I would rate this as an above- average source.

http://en.wilkipedia.org/wiki/Bierce%2C_Ambrose 

As in most of my other sources, this one does not give much detail about the early parts of Bierce's life. It breezes through his military career, but in doing so tells how he ends up in San Francisco. Unlike other sources, this one ventures more into Bierce's role as a critic and satirist. In a few places, his work receives much controversy, as this source explains. It also gives a specific example when his boss, William Randolph Hearst, was thought to have planned McKinley's assassination due to one of Bierce's poems and wrongful accusations by other newspapers. This site is also the first to state that Bierce's opinions of a writer were so respected and believed that they could "make or break" a person's career. In addition, it lists various movie and book adaptations from Bierce's own life and many of his stories. Overall, this site receives an above-average rating.

http://donswaim.com/ojinaga.bierce.html 

My final source was a bit lengthy and would fit better in a very in-depth discussion of Bierce's disappearance. After reviewing the materiel thoroughly, I can make several observations. First, I would not recommend this site to anyone who is bored by reading and cannot grasp deep discussion points. I feel it is a very informative site that provides one with an ample amount of information on his disappearance and reasoning. Briefly, this source states that Bierce went into Mexico to seek war. This war, just as in the Civil War, was between men of one country, fighting each other to gain independence. Bierce was connected to this was because its motives were similar to his in the Civil War, and because he believed that to write about war you must experience it. So he felt he needed more experiences for more stories. The last part lists several possible endings and goes into technical discussions about how true each one could be. For my specific web page, I felt this site provided average to below-average information. But for someone very interested in the mysteries of Bierce's last days, I would recommend it.