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• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)

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• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com

• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v3-5; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
  • Volume I: page images at MOA
  • Volume II: page images at MOA
  • Volume III: page images at MOA
• Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at ibiblio.org)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)

• The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)

• The Lure of the Labrador Wild: The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., by Dillon Wallace (Gutenberg text)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
• Laperouse, by Ernest Scott (Gutenberg text)
• Caesars of the Wilderness: Médard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1943), by Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons (in French; Paris: D. Moreau, 1632), by Gabriel Sagard (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by P. J. Capelotti (PDF at University of Calgary)
• The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Isabel Burton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg text)
• The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton (London: H. S. Nichols, 1896), by Georgiana M. Stisted (multiple formats at archive.org)
• John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America and Sebastian, His Son: A Chapter of the Maritime History of England Under the Tudors, 1496-1557 (London: Stevens, 1896), by Henry Harrisse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)

• The Life of Captain James Cook (Basel, Switzerland: Printed by J.J. Tourneisen, 1788), by Andrew Kippis
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Discourse in Commendation of the Valiant as Vertuous Minded Gentleman, Maister Frauncis Drake, With a Reioysing of His Happy Aduentures (1581), by Nicholas Breton (page images at LOC)
• The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)

• Simon Fraser (Toronto: Ryerson Press, ca. 1928), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton, illust. by Charles W. Jefferys (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Who's Who in Pacific Navigation (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), by John Dunmore (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v3-5; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
  • Volume I: page images at MOA
  • Volume II: page images at MOA
  • Volume III: page images at MOA
• Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at ibiblio.org)

• Vdol' Poli︠a︡rnykh Okrainʺ Rossīi: Puteshestvīe Nordenshel'da Vokrug Evropy i Azīi v' 1878-1880 g. (in Russian; St. Petersburg: K. Birkenfeld, 1898), by Ė. Granstrem (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Antarctic Comrades: An American With the Russians in Antarctica (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Gilbert Dewart (PDF at Ohio State)
• Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U.S. Navy, 1798-1877 (Washington: Naval History Division, Dept. of the Navy, 1978), by Charles Wilkes, ed. by William James Morgan, David Budlong Tyler, Joye L. Leonhart, and Mary F. Loughlin, contrib. by John D. H. Kane (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, page images, and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion (Stillwater, OK: Barbed Wire Press, c1991), by Bill O'Neal (page images at Portal to Texas History)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides; Including a True and Thrilling History of Gen. Custer's Famous "Last Fight" on the Little Big Horn, with Sitting Bull (New York and St. Louis: N. D. Thompson and Co., 1882), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, "White Beaver", Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides (St. Louis and Philadelphia: Historical Pub. Co., 1883), by James W. Buel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Ronald O. Barney (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Copies of Calamity Jane's Diary and Letters, Taken From the Originals Now On Exhibit at the Western Trails Museum, Billings, Montana (claimed Calamity Jane authorship disputed by historians; published ca. 1949), contrib. by Jean Hickok McCormick and Calamity Jane (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by James Willard Schultz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (New York et al.: Harper and Row, c1904; edition published after author's death), by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871-1888), by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (Gutenberg text)
• An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920), by Buffalo Bill, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself (1907), by Nat Love (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Lone Star Cowboy: Being Fifty Years Experience in the Saddle as Cowboy, Detective and New Mexico Ranger, on Every Cow Trail in the Wooly Old West (1919), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• At the Grass Roots: Comprising "The Christmas of 1883", and Other Vagrant Sketches (Topeka: Crane and Co., 1905), by Jay E. House, illust. by Albert Turner Reid
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself (1907), by Nat Love (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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