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• Hiking -- Juvenile fiction
• Hiking -- New York (State)
• Hiking -- Scotland
• Hiking -- White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)
• Hitchhiking
• Mountaineering
• Trails

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• Trekking

• The Barefoot Hiker, by Richard Keith Frazine (illustrated HTML at bhthom.org)
• The Boy Scout's Hike Book (Garden City, NY:, Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Edward Cave (page images at HathiTrust)

• Connecticut Walk Book (revised (second) edition, with ski trails; 1940), by Connecticut Forest and Park Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• The High School Boys' Training Hike: or, Making Themselves "Hard as Nails", by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills: or, The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains (Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., c1914), by Janet Aldridge (Gutenberg text)
• Boy Scouts on a Long Hike: or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps, by Archibald Lee Fletcher (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy Scouts on Lost Trail (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1920), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by C. S. Corson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pluck on the Long Trail: or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies, by Edwin L. Sabin, illust. by Clarence Rowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Catskills (New York: The Century Co., 1918), by T. Morris Longstreth (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)

• Walking the Watershed: The Border to Cape Wrath along Scotland's Great Divide (c1994), by Dave Hewitt, illust. by Chris Tyler (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Adventures of a Deaf-Mute, by William B. Swett (page images at MOA)

• Detour: An Extraordinary Tale (New York: The Macaulay Co., c1939), by Martin M. Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Far Side of the Sky, by Christopher E. Brennen (illustrated HTML at Caltech)
• Mountaineering Records (Liverpool: J. A. Thompson, 1907), by E. H. (Emily Hornby), ed. by Montague Leyland Hornby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Home in the Alps (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1892), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Alpine Climbing (London: George Newnes, 1904), by Francis Henry Gribble (PDF at djm.cc)
• Adventures on the Roof of the World (London: T. F. Unwin, 1907), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Call of the Snowy Hispar: A Narrative of Exploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier of India (London: Constable and Co., 1911), by William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman (page images at Google; US access only)
• The High Alps in Winter: or, Mountaineering in Search of Health (London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• High Life and Towers of Silence (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In the Ice world of Himálaya, Among the Peaks and Passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900), by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (page images at Google; US access only)
• Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: T. F. Unwin, 1908), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun: A Record of Pioneer-Exploration and Mountaineering in the Punjab Himalaya (London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (page images at Google; US access only)
• True Tales of Mountain Adventure, for Non-Climbers Young and Old (New York: Dutton, 1903), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Conquest of Mount Cook, and Other Climbs: An Account of Four Seasons' Mountaineering on the Southern Alps of New Zealand (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1915), by Freda Du Faur
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML in New Zealand
• A Search for the Apex of America: High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia, Including the Conquest of Huascarán; With Some Observations on the Country and People Below (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1911), by Annie S. Peck (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1918), by Hudson Stuck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Alpine Journal (partial serial archives)

• Pioneer Climbing in a New Switzerland: Fascinations and Dangers of Mountain Climbing in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks (reprinted from The Technical World, 1905), by Charles Ernest Fay (page images at HathiTrust)

• Red River Carts Trek Historic Pembina Trail (second printing; Warren, MN: W. Sheaf, ca. 1958), by E. Neil Mattson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Appalachia (partial serial archives)

• Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, by Clarence King
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA

• Alpine Byways: or, Light Leaves Gathered in 1859 and 1860 (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861), by Mrs. Henry Freshfield
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Swiss Notes by Five Ladies (Leeds: Inchbold and Beck, 1875), ed. by Mary Taylor (page images at Google)

• The Crystal Hunters, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frederic William Burton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Parthenäis: oder, Die Alpenreise (in German; Hamburg and Mainz: G. Vollmer, ca. 1804), by Jens Baggesen, illust. by C. Schule (page images at HathiTrust)

• Adventure Hikes and Canyoneering in the San Gabriels, by Christopher E. Brennen (illustrated HTML at Caltech)

• Adventure Hikes and Canyoneering in the Southwest, by Christopher E. Brennen (illustrated HTML at Caltech)

• Some Shorter Climbs (in Derbyshire and Elsewhere) (Manchester, UK: Refuge Printing Dept., 1913), by John Laycock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Some Shorter Climbs (in Derbyshire and Elsewhere) (Manchester, UK: Refuge Printing Dept., 1913), by John Laycock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• California Desert Trails (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919), by J. Smeaton Chase (page images in Germany)

• California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride From Mexico to Oregon (1913), by J. Smeaton Chase (illustrated HTML at ventanawild.org)

• Santa Fe Trail, by Kansas State Historical Society (HTML at kancoll.org)

• Pioneering in the Northwest: Niobrara-Virginia City Wagon Road, by Albert M. Holman; Pioneers, Short Sketches of Charles Floyd, War Eagle, Theophile Bruguier, and Others, by Constant R. Marks (Sioux City, IA: Deitch and Lamar Co., 1924), by Albert M. Holman and C. R. Marks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Red River Carts Trek Historic Pembina Trail (second printing; Warren, MN: W. Sheaf, ca. 1958), by E. Neil Mattson (page images at HathiTrust)

• NPS Trails Management Handbook (Denver: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 1988), by Lennon Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Great Salt Lake Trail, by Henry Inman and Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
• Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California (Salt Lake City: Western Printing Co., 1930), by Charles Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indian Trails Centering at Black Hawk's Village (reprinted from the Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 2921), by John H. Hauberg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

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