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• The American Boys' Handybook of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1920), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Young Exiles: or, The Wild Tribes of the North, A Tale of Adventure (some distorted pages; London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1870), by Anne Bowman, illust. by Harrison Weir (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness (2 volumes in 1; New York: Macmillan, 1957), by Horace Kephart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Forest, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Indian Scout Talks: A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Charles A. Eastman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Silver Fields, and Other Sketches of a Farmer-Sportsman (Boson and New York: Houghton Mifflin co., 1921), by Rowland E. Robinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces, by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)
• The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore (Garden City, NY, and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Ernest Thompson Seton (page images at Google; US access only)
• A Woman Tenderfoot (Toronto: G.N. Morang, 1900), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, illust. by Ernest Thompson Seton, G. Wright, E. M. Ashe, and S. N. Abbott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Woman Tenderfoot (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1900), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, illust. by Ernest Thompson Seton, G. Wright, E. M. Ashe, and S. N. Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Trouting on the Brulé River, by John Lyle King (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Mountain Masculinity: The Life and Writing of Nello "Tex" Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938 (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by Tex Wood, ed. by Andrew Colin Gow and Julie Rak (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Labrador Days: Tales of the Sea Toilers (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Swamp Cat (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1957), by Jim Kjelgaard, illust. by Edward Shenton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Babs (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1917), by Alice Ross Colver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned (1917), by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Young Alaskans in the Far North (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Captain of the Club: or, The Canadian Boy (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, c1889), by Valentine Williams and John Talbot Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Timber Treasure (New York and London: The Century Co., 1923), by Frank Lillie Pollock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Yule Logs (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), ed. by G. A. Henty
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Outdoor America (partial serial archives)
• Forest and Stream (full serial archives)
• The Open Road (outdoor-oriented periodical for young men, 1919-1925) (partial serial archives)
• The Guide to Nature (partial serial archives)
• Outdoor Life (partial serial archives)

• Nimrod's Wife (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, illust. by Walter King Stone and Ernest Thompson Seton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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 Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore (Garden City, NY, and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Ernest Thompson Seton (page images at Google; US access only)
• Field-Farings: A Vagrant Chronicle of Earth and Sky (New York, : Harper and Bros., 1892), by Martha McCulloch-Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Fresh Fields (c1912), by John Burroughs (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Hills and the Vale (London: Duckworth and Co., 1909), by Richard Jefferies, contrib. by Edward Thomas (Gutenberg text)
• The Lay of the Land, by Dallas Lore Sharp (HTML at LOC)
• The Life of the Fields, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist (Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, c1911), by Winthrop Packard (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Locusts and Wild Honey, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Locusts and Wild Honey (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, c1907), by John Burroughs (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Log of the Sun: A Chronicle of Nature's Year (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1906), by William Beebe, illust. by Walter King Stone (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Lone Swallows (London et al.: W. Collins Sons and Co., c1922), by Henry Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• More About Wild Nature (second edition; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893), by Mrs. Brightwen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Music of the Wild: With Reproductions of the Performers, Their Instruments and Festival Halls (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1910), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Music of the Wild: With Reproductions of The Performers, Their Instruments and Festival Halls (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Natural History of the Farm: A Guide to the Practical Study of the Sources of Our Living in Wild Nature (Ithaca, NY: Comstock Pub. Co., 1916), by James G. Needham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Next to the Ground: Chronicles of a Countryside (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1902), by Martha McCulloch-Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.orgr
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Notes From Nature's Garden (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1906), by Frances Anne Bardswell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Plymouth Trails, by Winthrop Packard (HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Open Air, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• Out of Doors: A Selection of Original Articles on Practical Natural History (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874), by J. G. Wood
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pepacton, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• The Prairie and the Sea (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1905), by William A. Quayle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea-Side Walks of a Naturalist With His Children (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1870), by W. Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Under the Trees and Elsewhere, by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Gutenberg text)
• Wake-Robin, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• Wild Pastures (Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, c1909), by Winthrop Packard, illust. by Charles Copeland (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Wildwood Ways (Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, c1909), by Winthrop Packard (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Winter Sunshine, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• Winter Sunshine (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, c1904), by John Burroughs (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Woodland Paths (Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, c1910), by Winthrop Packard, illust. by Charles Copeland (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Living Year (some illustrations may be omitted; New York: Washburn, c1950), by Richard Headstrom, illust. by Anne Marie Jauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homing With the Birds: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1919), by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Homing With the Birds: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Gene Stratton-Porter (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Nature Near London, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• Our Country Home: How We Transformed a Wisconsin Woodland (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1908), by Frances Kinsley Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out-Door Papers, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at MOA)
• Rural Hours (illustrated edition; New York: George P. Putnam, 1851), by Susan Fenimore Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rural Hours (revised abridged edition, without illustrations; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1887), by Susan Fenimore Cooper (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Pilgrims of the Wild (c1935), by Grey Owl, contrib. by Hugh S. Eayrs (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• Wild Life on the Rockies (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, c1909), by Enos A. Mills (multiple formats at archive.org)

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