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• 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)
• Cowboys, North and South (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1924), by Will James (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Old Apache Trail (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1921), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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• Country Nodes: An Anthropological Evaluation of William Keys' Desert Queen Ranch, Joshua Tree National Monument, California (Washington : Cultural Resources Management Division, 1977), by Patricia L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• More Rawhides (first revised edition; Pasadena: Trail's End Pub. Co., 1946), by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Flying U Strikes (c1934), by B. M. Bower (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)
• Chip, of the Flying U, by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• Flying U Ranch, by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• The Flying U's Last Stand, by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• The Happy Family (New York: G. W. Dillingham and Co., 1910), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Meadowlark Basin (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by B. M. Bower, illust. by George W. Gage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Moccasin Ranch: A Story of Dakota (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1909), by Hamlin Garland
  • page images at openlibrary.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Mr. Scraggs (New York: Grafton Press, 1906), by Henry Wallace Phillips, illust. by Martin Justice and N. C. Wyeth
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without illustrations: Gutenberg text
• Prairie Flowers (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1920), by James B. Hendryx (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Rawhide Rawlins Stories (Great Falls, MT: Printed by Montana Newspaper Association, 1921), by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911), by Andy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Wire Cutters (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1899), by M. E. M. Davis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Hay-Wire (Toronto: McClelland and Stuart, 1928), by B. M. Bower (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Buck Peters, Ranchman: Being the Story of What Happened When Buck Peters, Hopalong Cassidy, and Their Bar-20 Associates Went to Montana (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1912), by Clarence Edward Mulford and John Wood Clay, illust. by Maynard Dixon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Langford of the Three Bars (Chicago: A. C. McClurg anbd Co., 1907), by Kate Boyles Bingham and Virgil D. Boyles, illust. by N. C. Wyeth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML and black and white page images at Indiana
• The Ranch at the Wolverine (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1914), by B. M. Bower (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Ranch at the Wolverine (New York: A. L. Burt and Co., c1914), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Red Pony (illustrator died in 1966; c1937), by John Steinbeck, illust. by Wesley Dennis (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Pride of Palomar (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1922), by Peter B. Kyne, illust. by Harry Russell Ballinger and Dean Cornwell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Range Dwellers (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1906), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Charles M. Russell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rustler: A Tale of Love and War in Wyoming (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1902), by Frances McElrath, illust. by Edwin Willard Deming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skyrider (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1919), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Of Mice and Men (c1937), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 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 Quirt (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wolfville Nights (1902), by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)

• Bob Chester's Grit: or, From Ranch to Riches, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy From the Ranch: or, Roy Bradner's City Experiences, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Pony Rider Boys in Texas: or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1910), by Frank Gee Patchin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Scarface Ranch: or, The Young Homesteaders (New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1914), by Edwin L. Sabin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comrades of the Saddle: or, The Young Rough Riders of the Plains, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text)
• A Yankee Lad's Pluck: How Bert Larkin Saved His Father's Ranch in the Island of Porto Rico (New York: A. L. Burt, c1900), by William P. Chipman, illust. by J. Watson Davis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Young Ranchers: or, Fighting the Sioux (Philadelphia: H. T. Coates and Co., c1895), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch (published under "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym; Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1913), by L. Frank Baum (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Great Cattle Trail (Philadelphia et al.: J. C. Winston Co., c1894), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Singing Sioux Cowboy Reader (English text by Clark, Dakota translation by Afraid-of-Hawk; Lawrence, KS: U. S. Indian Service, ca. 1947), by Ann Nolan Clark, trans. by Emil Afraid-of-Hawk, illust. by Andrew Standing Soldier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shorty's Yarns: Western Stories and Poems of Bruce Kiskaddon (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Bruce Kiskaddon, ed. by Bill Siems, illust. by Katherine Field (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• 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)

• Old Deseret Live Stock Company: A Stockman's Memoir (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by W. Dean Frischknecht (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Letters of a Woman Homesteader, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart (HTML at Virginia)

• Wallaces Farmer (partial serial archives)

• The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by John Jennings (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)
• Pistol Pete, Veteran of the Old West (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1952), by Frank Eaton and Eva Gillhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy Years on the Frontier: Alexander Majors' Memoirs of a Lifetime on the Border (reprint; Columbus, OH: Long's College Book Co., 1950), by Alexander Majors, ed. by Prentiss Ingraham, contrib. by Buffalo Bill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bone Days: A Short History of the Buffalo Bone Trade (c1939), by M. I. McCreight (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My Life on the Frontier, 1864-1882: Incidents and Characters of the Period When Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico Were Passing Through the Last of Their Wild and Romantic Years (New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1935), by Miguel Antonio Otero (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rath Trail (Wichita: McCormick-Armstrong, 1961), by Ida Ellen Rath (illustrated HTML at kancoll.org)
• Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871-1888), by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (Gutenberg text)
• Back-Trailing on the Old Frontiers (Great Falls, MT: Cheely-Raban Syndicate, 1922), illust. by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West, by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text)
• Reminiscences of Pioneer Life (Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1912), by Robert R. Latta
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)
• The Trail Drivers of Texas (second edition revised, 2 volumes in 1; Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1925), ed. by J. Marvin Hunter, contrib. by George W. Saunders (multiple formats at archive.org)
• True Tales of the Plains (1908), by Buffalo Bill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains, by George Frederick Ruxton (HTML at xmission.com)
• One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Ronald O. Barney (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• 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)
• Dave Rudabaugh, Border Ruffian (Denver: World Press, c1961), by F. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rekindling Camp Fires: The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) (Wa-si-cu Tam-a-he-ca), an Authentic Narrative of Sixty Years in the Old West as Indian Fighter, Gold Miner, Cowboy, Hunter and Army Scout (Bismarck, ND: Capital Book Co., c1926), by Ben Arnold, ed. by Lewis F. Crawford, contrib. by Josephine Waggoner (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody) and His Wild West Companions, Including Wild Bill, Texas Jack, California Joe, Capt. Jack Crawford, and Other Famous Scouts of the Western Plains (Chicago: The Hennebery Co., ca. 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill's Own Story of His Life and Deeds: This Autobiography Tells in His Own Graphic Words the Wonderful Story of His Heroic Career (memorial edition; c1917), by Buffalo Bill, contrib. by William Lightfoot Visscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Buffalo Harvest, by Frank H. Mayer and Charles B. Roth (HTML at PBS)
• Clay Allison of the Washita, First a Cow Man and Then an Extinguisher of Bad Men; Recollections of Colorado, New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle (c1922), by O. S. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides; Including a True and Thrilling History of Gen. Custer's Famous "Last Fight" on the Little Big Horn, with Sitting Bull (New York and St. Louis: N. D. Thompson and Co., 1882), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, "White Beaver", Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides (St. Louis and Philadelphia: Historical Pub. Co., 1883), by James W. Buel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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 Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout (Chicago: Belford, Clarke and Co., 1880), by James W. Buel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Life in the Far West (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849), by George Frederick Ruxton (page images in Germany)
• Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49, by Lorenzo Dow Stephens (HTML at LOC)
• Locating the Iron Trail (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1925), by Edward Gillette (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of the Cowboy (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897), by Emerson Hough, illust. by William L. Wells and Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Westward by Rail: The New Route to the East, by W. Fraser Rae (page images at MOA)
• Copies of Calamity Jane's Diary and Letters, Taken From the Originals Now On Exhibit at the Western Trails Museum, Billings, Montana (claimed Calamity Jane authorship disputed by historians; published ca. 1949), contrib. by Jean Hickok McCormick and Calamity Jane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kit Carson's Autobiography (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1935), by Kit Carson, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scouting on Two Continents (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1926), by Frederick Russell Burnham, ed. by Mary Nixon Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boy General: Story of the Life of Major-General George A. Custer (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), by Elizabeth Bacon Custer, ed. by Mary E. Burt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Boy General: Story of the Life of Major-General George A. Custer (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Elizabeth Bacon Custer, ed. by Mary E. Burt (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
• The Great Salt Lake Trail, by Henry Inman and Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
• Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
• 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)
• The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by Francis Parkman, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
• Pioneer Tales of the Oregon Trail and of Jefferson County (Topeka: Crane and Co., 1912), by Charles Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sheldon Jackson, Pathfinder and Prospector of the Missionary Vanguard in the Rocky Mountains and Alaska (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by Robert Laird Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tenting on the Plains: or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas (New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1887), by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tenting on the Plains: or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas (New York: Harper and Bros., 1895), by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border, by Randolph B. Marcy (page images at MOA)
• Belle Starr, The Bandit Queen: The Career of the Most Colorful Outlaw the Indian Territory Ever Knew (published under "William Yancey Shackleford" pseudonym; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1943), by Vance Randolph (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-Two Years With a World-Famous Detective Agency (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1912), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at Wisconsin
• 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 (based on the 1881 edition, with some illustrations scanned from the 1877 edition), by Frances Fuller Victor (HTML with commentary at Wikisource)
• 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)
• The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879), by Buffalo Bill (page images at LOC)
• A Lone Star Cowboy: Being Fifty Years Experience in the Saddle as Cowboy, Detective and New Mexico Ranger, on Every Cow Trail in the Wooly Old West (1919), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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