Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)

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• Indian captivities -- West (U.S.)
• Ranch life -- West (U.S.)

• Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871-1888), by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (Gutenberg text)
• An Army Wife on the Frontier: The Memoirs of Alice Blackwood Baldwin, 1867-1877, by Alice Blackwood Baldwin, ed. by Robert C. Carriker and Eleanor R. Carriker (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)
• Buffalo Bone Days, by M. I. McCreight (illustrated HTML at manycoups.net)
• The Buffalo Harvest, by Frank H. Mayer and Charles B. Roth (HTML at PBS)
• Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier: Also, a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer, With a Full Account of His Last Battle (Hartford: Columbian Book Co., 1877), by Frances Fuller Victor (page images at Wisconsin)
• An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
• Fights and Adventures with the Indians: Thrilling Stories of an American Scout on the Western Plains in the Old Days (East Chattanooga, TN: Andrews Printery, c1922), by H. E. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Salt Lake Trail, by Henry Inman and Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
• Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, by Solomon Nunes Carvalho
  • HTML at jewish-history.com
  • page images at MOA
• Journal of Army Life, by Rodney Glisan (page images at MOA)
• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill" (1917 edition), by Buffalo Bill (HTML at PBS)
• The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians (New York: Harper and Bros., 1856), by James Pierson Beckwourth, ed. by T. D. Bonner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early, One of the Pioneers of African Methodism in the West and South (Nashville: Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1894), by Sarah J. W. Early (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life in the Far West (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849), by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton (page images in Germany)
• The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879), by Buffalo Bill (page images at LOC)
• Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
• Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49, by Lorenzo Dow Stephens (HTML at LOC)
• Mormon Midwife: The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1997), by Patty Bartlett Sessions, ed. by Donna Toland Smart (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway, by Henry Inman, contrib. by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
• The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman (Gutenberg text)
• Our New West, by Samuel Bowles (HTML at LOC)
• Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West (Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Co., 1883), by Richard Irving Dodge (PDF at lvulvu.us)
• Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., 1922), by Ezra Meeker and Howard R. Driggs, illust. by F. N. Wilson (DjVu at secstate.wa.gov)
• The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West, by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text)
• Pistol Pete, Veteran of the Old West (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1952), by Frank Eaton and Eva Gillhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rath Trail (Wichita: McCormick-Armstrong, 1961), by Ida Ellen Rath (illustrated HTML at kancoll.org)
• Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second William Penn: A True Account of Incidents That Happened Along the Old Santa Fe Trail in the Sixties, by W. H. Ryus (Gutenberg text)
• Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains: or, The Last Voice From the Plains, by William F. Drannan (Gutenberg text)
• Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border, by Randolph Barnes Marcy (page images at MOA)
• Westward by Rail: The New Route to the East, by W. Fraser Rae (page images at MOA)
• Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains, by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton (HTML at xmission.com)

• "Bring Me His Ears" (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1922), by Clarence Edward Mulford, illust. by James Allen St. John (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Bring Me His Ears" (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1922), by Clarence Edward Mulford, illust. by James Allen St. John (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Copper Streak Trail, by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories, by Owen Wister (Gutenberg text)
• The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1900), by Owen Wister (page images at openlibrary.org)
• The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Tales; With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers, by Bret Harte (Gutenberg text)
• Other Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg text)
• Stepsons of Light (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921), by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Stories of a Western Town, by Octave Thanet (Gutenberg text)

• Little House on the Prairie (c1935), by Laura Ingalls Wilder (text in South Africa; NO US ACCESS)

• Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear: The Life and Adventures of Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney (1885), by Theresa Delaney and Theresa Gowanlock
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Ohme, Brown, and Green, 1824), by John Dunn Hunter (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)

• Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, by Theodore Roosevelt, illust. by Frederic Remington (illustrated HTML at Bartleby)
• Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at PBS)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Woman Who Went to Alaska (Boston: James H. Earle and Co., c1902), by May Kellogg Sullivan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Appalachian Frontier: America's First Surge Westward (with new introduction; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2003), by John Anthony Caruso, contrib. by John C. Inscoe (PDF files at Newfound Press)

• Arizona and Sonora: The Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Region of North America, by Sylvester Mowry (page images at MOA)

• Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
• Appreciation of Loved Ones Who Made Life Rich for Many, by Lilian A. Cross (HTML at LOC)
• The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• California, 1849-1913: or, The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in That State, by L. H. Woolley
  • HTML at LOC
  • Gutenberg text
• California All the Way Back to 1828, by Michael Claringbud White (HTML at LOC)
• California Letters of Lucius Fairchild, by Lucius Fairchild, ed. by Joseph Schafer (HTML at LOC)
• The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
• From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer, by Henry Hiram Ellis (HTML at LOC)
• Gold and Sunshine: Reminiscences of Early California, by James J. Ayers (HTML at LOC)
• The Gold Seekers of '49, by Kimball Webster (HTML at LOC)
• Golden Dreams and Waking Realities, by William Shaw (HTML at LOC)
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
• History of California, by Helen Elliott Bandini (Gutenberg text)
• The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Hunter Austin
  • illustrated HTML at LOC
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
• The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern California, by Sim Moak (HTML at LOC)
• A Letter from A Gold Miner, Placerville, California, October 1850, by S. Shufelt, contrib. by Robert Glass Cleland (HTML at LOC)
• Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er, by Luzena Stanley Wilson (HTML at LOC)
• Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (HTML at LOC)
• One Man's Gold: The Letters and Journal of a Forty-Niner, by Enos Christman (HTML at LOC)
• Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9 (two volumes), by William Redmond Ryan (HTML at LOC)
• A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
• A Pioneer at Sutter's Fort, 1846-1850, by Heinrich Lienhard, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
• Ranch Life in California, by Evelyn M. Herstlet (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a Newspaperman: A Record of Life and Events in California, by Frank Aleamon Leach (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of Pioneer Work in California, by James Woods (HTML at LOC)
• Reminiscences of a Ranger: or, Early Times in Southern California, by Horace Bell (HTML at LOC)
• Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, on the Formation of the State Constitution, by California Constitutional Convention (1849), ed. by John Ross Browne (HTML at LOC)
• Scharmann's Overland Journey to California, by Herman B. Scharmann, trans. by Margaret Hoff Zimmerman and Erich W. Zimmerman (HTML at LOC)
• Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings, by Daniel Bates Woods (HTML at LOC)
• Three Years in California, by John David Borthwick
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images in Germany
• Touching Incidents in the Life and Labors of a Pioneer on the Pacific Coast Since 1853, by Joseph Wilkinson Hines (HTML at LOC)
• A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848, by John Alfred Swan, ed. by John A. Hussey (HTML at LOC)
• A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush, by Franklin Agustus Buck (HTML at LOC)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.