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

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

• "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)

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

• 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 cimmay.com)
• 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 B. 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)

• 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)

• Betty Zane, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Boy in the Bush (c1924), by D. H. Lawrence and M. L. Skinner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 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 Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper
  • volume I: HTML at Virginia
  • volume II: HTML at Virginia
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• 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 Frontiersmen, by Mary Noailles Murfree (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush-Life, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Hay-Wire (1928), by B. M. Bower (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 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)
• The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper (HTML at Virginia)
• The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (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)
• A Lost Lady (1923), by Willa Cather (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Man of the Forest, by Zane Grey
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and HTML
• A New Home, Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life, by Caroline M. Kirkland
  • HTML with commentary at dotwebb.com
  • HTML and page images at LOC
  • HTML at Virginia
• The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)
• The Pioneers (New York : Charles Wiley, 1823), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: HTML at Virginia
• The Pioneers, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, by Henry Kingsley
  • PDF at SETIS
  • Gutenberg text
• 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 in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 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)
• Starr, of the Desert (1917), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• 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 (PDF at SETIS)
• Three Elephant Power, and Other Stories, by A. B. Paterson
  • PDF at SETIS
  • 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

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