Frontier and pioneer life -- Missouri River Valley
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Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839: Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur Trader's Experiences among the Mandans, Gros Ventres and Their Neighbors; of the Ravages of the Small-Pox Epidemic of 1837 (Pierre, SD: Pub. under the auspices of L. K. Fox, Dept. of History, State of South Dakota, 1932), by Francis A. Chardon, ed. by Annie Heloise Abel (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Frontier and pioneer life- The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being the Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Louisa Barnes Pratt, ed. by S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- A Woman Who Went to Alaska (Boston: James H. Earle and Co., c1902), by May Kellogg Sullivan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Sheldon Jackson, Pathfinder and Prospector of the Missionary Vanguard in the Rocky Mountains and Alaska (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by Robert Laird Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by John Jennings (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)
- 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 at Tennessee)
- The Roll Away Saloon: Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip (originally published 1979; this edition Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1985), by Rowland W. Rider, contrib. by Deirdre Paulsen (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Arizona and Sonora: The Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Region of North America, by Sylvester Mowry (page images at MOA)
- So Far and Yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by W. M. Elofson (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- The Passing of a Race, and More Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1905), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Mystic Spring, and Other Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1904), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
- Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er: Memories Recalled Years Later for Her Daughter Correnah Wilson Wright (Mills College, CA: Eucalyptus Press, 1937), by Luzena Stanley Wilson, ed. by Correnah Wilson Wright, contrib. by Francis P. Farquhar, illust. by Kathryn Uhl
- 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
- California All the Way Back to 1828, by Michael Claringbud White (HTML at LOC)
- From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer, by Henry Hiram Ellis (PDF at LOC)
- Gold and Sunshine: Reminiscences of Early California, by James J. Ayers (HTML at LOC)
- History of California, by Helen Elliott Bandini (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
- Reminiscences of a Ranger: or, Early Times in Southern California, by Horace Bell (HTML at LOC)
- 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)
- Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), ed. by Kristin Johnson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
- California Letters of Lucius Fairchild, by Lucius Fairchild, ed. by Joseph Schafer (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)
- The Land of Little Rain (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903), by Mary Austin
- Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (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 Pioneer Work in California, by James Woods (HTML at LOC)
- Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings, by Daniel Bates Woods (HTML at LOC)
- One Man's Gold: The Letters and Journal of a Forty-Niner (1930), by Enos Christman, ed. by Florence Morrow Christman (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
- The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
- Recollections of a Newspaperman: A Record of Life and Events in California, by Frank Aleamon Leach (PDF at loc.gov)
- Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849 (Washington: Printed by J. T. Towers, 1850), by California Constitutional Convention (1849), ed. by J. Ross Browne
- Scharmann's Overland Journey to California, by Herman B. Scharmann, trans. by Margaret Hoff Zimmerman and Erich W. Zimmerman (HTML at LOC)
- Three Years in California, by John David Borthwick
- The Negro Trail Blazers of California: A Compilation of Records From the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley, and From the Diaries, Old Papers and Conversations of Old Pioneers in the State of California (Los Angeles, 1919), by Delilah L. Beasley
- Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9 (two volumes), by William Redmond Ryan (HTML at LOC)
- Vida y Aventuras del Más Célebre Bandido Sonorense, Joaquín Murrieta, y Sus Grandes Proezas en el Estado de California (sixth edition, in Spanish; Los Angeles: C. G. Vincent and Co., 1923), by Ireneo Paz
- Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875, by Benjamin Ignatius Hayes, ed. by Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott (HTML at LOC)
- Among the Forest Trees, or, How the Bushman Family Got Their Homes: Being a Book of Facts and Incidents of Pioneer Life in Upper Canada, Arranged in the Form of a Story (1888), by Joseph Henry Hilts (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Canadian Settler's Guide (London: E. Stanford, 1860), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping (Toronto: Maclear, 1854), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Men of the Last Frontier (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1932), by Grey Owl (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The Life and Times of Wm. Lyon Mackenzie: With an Account of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837, and the Subsequent Frontier Disturbances, Chiefly From Unpublished Documents (2 volumes; Toronto: P.R. Randall, 1862), by Charles Lindsey
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