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• Oonomoo the Huron (New York: Hurst and Co., c1911), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ranger: or, The Fugitives of the Border (New York: Hurst and Co., c1911), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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• American Boyhood (Philadelphia: Pub. for the author by J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The Ohio Hunter: or, A Brief Sketch of the Frontier Life of Samuel E. Edwards, the Great Bear and Deer Hunter of the State of Ohio (Battle Creek, MI: Pub. for the author by Review and Herald Pub. Co., 1893), by Samuel E. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simon Kenton: His Life and Period, 1755-1836 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1930), by Edna Kenton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Charlotte Chambers, By Her Grandson, Lewis H. Garrard (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1856), by Lewis Hector Garrard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hunter's Cabin: An Episode of the Early Settlements of Southern Ohio (New York: Beadle and Co., c1862), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Virginia Scout (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Hugh Pendexter, illust. by D. C. Hutchison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Alaskan: A Novel of the North, by James Oliver Curwood, illust. by Walt Louderback (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Sunset Pass: or, Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land (New York: J. W. Lovell Co., c1890), by Charles King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wolfville, by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)
• Wolfville Days, by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)
• Marion's Faith (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1890), by Charles King (Gutenberg text)

• Wolfville, by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)
• Wolfville Days, by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)

• The Argonauts of North Liberty, by Bret Harte (Gutenberg text)
• Down the Mother Lode: Pioneer Tales of California, by Vivia Hemphill (Gutenberg text)
• A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)

• Homestead Ranch (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1923), by Elizabeth G. Young, illust. by Arthur E. Becher
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Life on a Backwoods Farm: or, The Boyhood of Reuben Rodney Blannerhassett (Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1894), by William Riley Halstead (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The Path of Glory (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1911), by Paul Leland Haworth, illust. by H. C. Edwards (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Boy Life on the Prairie (revised edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1899), by Hamlin Garland, illust. by Edwin Willard Deming
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Nick of the Woods: or, Adventures of Prairie Life, by Robert Montgomery Bird (Gutenberg text)

• The Scout (London: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1863), by Warren St. John (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The White Islander (New York: The Century Co, 1900), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (multiple formats at Indiana)

• The Story of Red Feather: A Tale of the American Frontier, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Scalp Hunters, by Mayne Reid
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• An Adirondack Cabin: A Family Story, Telling of Journeyings by Lake and Mountain, and Idyllic Days in the Heart of the Wilderness (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1890), by Margaret Sidney
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Red Belts (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Hugh Pendexter, illust. by Ralph P. Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina, by William Gilmore Simms (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Homesteader: A Novel (Sioux City, IA: Western Book Supply Co., c1917), by Oscar Micheaux, illust. by W. M. Farrow
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool", by George Washington Harris (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• To Have and to Hold, by Mary Johnston
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text

• The Backwoodsman: or, Life on the Indian Frontier (Boston: T. O. H. P. Burnham; New York: O. S. Felt, 1866), by Lascelles Wraxall, illust. by Louis Guard (multiple formats at Google)
• The Boy in the Bush (New York: T. Seltzer, 1924), by D. H. Lawrence and M. L. Skinner (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Gaut Gurley, or, The Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life, by Daniel P. Thompson (Gutenberg text)
• Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia, by William Gilmore Simms (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Honor of the Big Snows, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)
• The Last of the Foresters, or, Humors on the Border: A Story of the Old Virginia Frontier (1856), by John Esten Cooke (Gutenberg text)
• A Lost Lady (1923), by Willa Cather (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Man of the Forest, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• A New Home, Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life, by Caroline M. Kirkland
  • HTML with commentary at dotwebb.com
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • HTML at Virginia
• The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)
• Oak and Iron: Of These Be the Breed of the North (New York and London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925), by James B. Hendryx (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Caravan Days (Boston: D. Lothrop, c1884), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Riflemen of the Miami (New York and London: Beadle and Co., c1862), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Riflemen of the Ohio: A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River", by Joseph A. Altsheler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Shanty Sled (1925), by Hulbert Footner (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, by Joseph Furphy (Gutenberg text)
• Tales of the Austral Tropics (1894), by Ernest Favenc (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
• Tales, Traditions and Romance of Border and Revolutionary Times (New York: Beadle and Co., c1864), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Three Elephant Power, and Other Stories, by A. B. Paterson (Gutenberg text)
• Wood Rangers, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text)
• Buffalo Bill, The Buckskin King: or, The Amazon of the West (originally published 1890; Charles Bragin's Dime Novel Club reprint, ca. 1945), by Prentiss Ingraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Manifest Destiny (New York: Brentano's, 1926), by Arthur D. Howden Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Flockmaster of Poison Creek (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1921), by George W. Ogden, illust. by P. V. E. Ivory (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Frontiersmen, by Mary Noailles Murfree (Gutenberg text)
• Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush-Life, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Kuvauksia Metsäelämästä Sivistyksen Äärimmäisellä Rajalla: Eli Natty Bumpon Elämänvaiheet (in Finnish; Helsinki: G. W. Edlund, 1879), by James Fenimore Cooper, trans. by Knut Emil Sonck (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (third edition; San Francisco: F. MacCrellish, 1874), by John Rollin Ridge (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• The Pioneers, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna: A Descriptive Tale (2 volumes; New York: C. Wiley, 1823), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I; HTML at Northwestern
  • Volume II: HTML at Northwestern
• The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, by Henry Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• The Rustler of Wind River (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1917), by George W. Ogden, illust. by Frank E. Schoonover (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Simon Kenton, or, The Scout's Revenge: An Historical Novel (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by James Weir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Starr, of the Desert (1917), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• The Wigwam and the Cabin (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by William Gilmore Simms
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: HTML at Virginia
• Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories (London: Archibald Constable and Co.; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906), by Andy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Challenge of the North (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by James B. Hendryx (Gutenberg text)
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper
  • volume I: HTML at Virginia
  • volume II: HTML at Virginia
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933), by James Fenimore Cooper, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Hay-Wire (Toronto: McClelland and Stuart, 1928), by B. M. Bower (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Betty Zane, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Betty Zane (with illustrations by the author; New York: C. Francis Press, c1903), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betty Zane (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Zane Grey, illust. by Louis F. Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• El Último de los Mohicanos (novel text in English, notes in Spanish; Boston et al: D.C. Heath and Co., c1915), by James Fenimore Cooper, contrib. by John G. Wight and Helen M. Parkhurst
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1913), by Alfred Henry Lewis, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Last of the Mohicans (Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1899), by James Fenimore Cooper, ed. by John G. Wight, contrib. by Helen M. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (new edition, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1854), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (new edition; New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1856), by James Fenimore Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Le Dernier des Mohicans: Le Roman de Bas-de-Cuir, by James Fenimore Cooper, trans. by A.-J.-B. Defauconpret (Gutenberg text)
• Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches, by Johnson Jones Hooper, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

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