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• The Girl at the Halfway House: A Story of the Plains (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1900), by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text)
• The Preacher of Cedar Mountain: A Tale of the Open Country (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1917), by Ernest Thompson Seton, illust. by Clarence Rowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Last of the Plainsmen, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

• The Huge Hunter: or, The Steam Man of the Prairies, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)

• "Laramie", or, The Queen of Bedlam: A Story of the Sioux War of 1876 (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1889), by Charles King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War, by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• The Horsemen of the Plains: A Story of the Great Cheyenne War (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Joseph A. Altsheler, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1938), by Joseph A. Altsheler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1920), by Joseph A. Altsheler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Thundering Herd (1925), by Zane Grey (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Lost Hunters: A Story of Wild Man and Great Beasts (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1939), by Joseph A. Altsheler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Daughter of the Sioux: A Tale of the Indian Frontier (New York: The Hobart Co., 1903), by Charles King, illust. by Frederic Remington and Edwin Willard Deming (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Heritage of the Sioux, by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• Nathan Todd: or, The Fate of the Sioux' Captive (New York: Hurst and Co., c1910), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old Indian Days, by Charles A. Eastman (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Story of Red Feather: A Tale of the American Frontier, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Warrior Gap: A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68 (New York: The Hobart Co., c1898), by Charles King (Gutenberg text)

• The Thundering Herd (1925), by Zane Grey (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

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

• Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains (c2011), by Trevor R. Peck (PDF at AU Press)

• Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains (c2011), by Trevor R. Peck (PDF at AU Press)

• My Life on the Plains, by George A. Custer
  • HTML at kancoll.org
  • Librivox audio reading
• My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1874), by George A. Custer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• Goodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains (c2011), by Frances W. Kaye (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Interpretation and Compendium of Historical Fire Accounts in the Northern Great Plains (Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1986), by Kenneth F. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Goodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains (c2011), by Frances W. Kaye (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Goodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains (c2011), by Frances W. Kaye (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists: Interaction Between the Southwest and the Southern Plains (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1991), ed. by Katherine A. Spielmann (HTML and Epub at Open Arizona)

• Interpretation and Compendium of Historical Fire Accounts in the Northern Great Plains (Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1986), by Kenneth F. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists: Interaction Between the Southwest and the Southern Plains (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1991), ed. by Katherine A. Spielmann (HTML and Epub at Open Arizona)

• Interpretation and Compendium of Historical Fire Accounts in the Northern Great Plains (Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1986), by Kenneth F. Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Goodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains (c2011), by Frances W. Kaye (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Dahcotah, Or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling, by Mary H. Eastman, contrib. by Caroline M. Kirkland (Gutenberg text)
• Dahcotah: or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling (New York: J. Wiley, 1849), by Mary H. Eastman, contrib. by Caroline M. Kirkland, illust. by Seth Eastman
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Capture and Escape: or, Life Among the Sioux (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1870), by Sarah L. Larimer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Capture and Escape: or, Life Among the Sioux (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1871), by Sarah L. Larimer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Upper Mississippi: or, Historical Sketches of the Moundbuilders, the Indian Tribes, and the Progress of Civilization in the North-West, From A. D. 1600 to the Present Time (Chicago: Clarke and Co.; New York: Oakley and Mason, 1867), by George Gale
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Motor Boys Across the Plains: or, The Hermit of Lost Lake (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1906), by Clarence Young, illust. by Charles Nuttall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little House on the Prairie (c1935), by Laura Ingalls Wilder (text in South Africa; NO US ACCESS)
• Over the Rocky Mountains, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee (1936), by Great Plains Drought Area Committee, contrib. by Morris Llewellyn Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee (1936), by Great Plains Drought Area Committee, contrib. by Morris Llewellyn Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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

• Belden, the White Chief: or, Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians of the Plains, by George P. Belden (page images at MOA)
• A Brief Account of the North American Indians, and Particularly of the Hostile Tribes of the Plains: Principal Indian Events Since 1862; Causes of Indian Wars; Indian Atrocities and Western Reprisals; and War of Extermination Now Being Waged Between the White and Red Men; Being an Introduction to Col. R. I. Dodge's "Hunting Grounds of the Great West" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1877), by William Blackmore (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Classification of Natural Ponds and Lakes in the Glaciated Prairie Region (resource publication #92; Washington: Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, 1961), by Robert E. Stewart and Harold A. Kantrud (PDF with commentary at usgs.gov)

• Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains (c2011), by Trevor R. Peck (PDF at AU Press)

• Classification of Natural Ponds and Lakes in the Glaciated Prairie Region (resource publication #92; Washington: Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, 1961), by Robert E. Stewart and Harold A. Kantrud (PDF with commentary at usgs.gov)

• Classification of Natural Ponds and Lakes in the Glaciated Prairie Region (resource publication #92; Washington: Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, 1961), by Robert E. Stewart and Harold A. Kantrud (PDF with commentary at usgs.gov)

• Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee (1936), by Great Plains Drought Area Committee, contrib. by Morris Llewellyn Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sun Dance of the Plains Indians (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History v16; 1921), ed. by Clark Wissler, contrib. by Robert Harry Lowie, J. R. Walker, Pliny Earle Goddard, Alanson Skinner, Wilson D. Wallis, and Leslie Spier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of The Teton Dakota (1917), by J. R. Walker (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.