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Filed under: West (U.S.) -- Description and travel- The Diaries of William Henry Jackson, Frontier Photographer: To California and Return, 1866-67; and With the Hayden Surveys to the Central Rockies, 1873, and to the Utes and cliff Dwellings, 1874 (The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series v10; Glendale, CA: A. H. Clark Co., 1959), by William Henry Jackson, ed. by LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Journal of Mrs. Mary Ringo: A Diary of Her Trip Across the Great Plains in 1864 (published 1956), by Mary Ringo, contrib. by Mattie Bell Cushing (page images at loc.gov)
- Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820 (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823), by Edwin James
- Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific Coast, with Speaker Colfax (Springfield, MA: Samuel Bowles and Company; New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865), by Samuel Bowles (page images in Germany)
- Across the Plains, With Other Memories and Essays, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
- Beyond the West, by George W. Pine (page images at MOA)
- A Boy Scout Goes West, by Rembrandt P. McCreight (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Buffalo Land: An Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co., 1872), by W. E. Webb, illust. by Henry Worrall
- California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, by Mrs. Frank Leslie, contrib. by Madeleine B. Stern (PDF at LOC)
- California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1877), by Mrs. Frank Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Central Pacific Railroad: A Trip Across the North American Continent from Ogden to San Francisco (New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871) (illustrated HTML at cprr.org)
- Central Route to the Pacific, by Gwinn Harris Heap (page images at MOA)
- The Conquest of Arid America, by William Ellsworth Smythe (HTML at LOC)
- The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California, by Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont, To Which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, With Recent Notices of the Gold Region From the Latest and Most Authentic Sources (fifteenth thousand, 1852), by John Charles Frémont (Gutenberg text)
- Five Months' Fine Weather in Canada, Western U.S., and Mexico (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1889), by Mary Rhodes Carbutt
- The Great West and Pacific Coast, by James Fowler Rusling (page images at MOA)
- The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, With an Examination of the Mormon Principle (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1870), by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (page images in Germany)
- The Hunting Grounds of the Great West: A Description of the Plains, Game, and Indians of the Great North American Desert (London: Chatto and Windus, 1877), by Richard Irving Dodge, contrib. by William Blackmore (multiple formats at aerchive.org)
- Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, by Solomon Nunes Carvalho
- Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold-Seekers Under the Guidance of Mr. Ledyard Frink During a Journey Across the Plains From Martinsville, Indiana, to Sacramento, California, from March 30, 1850, to September 7, 1850: From the Original Diary of the Trip Kept by Mrs. Margaret A. Frink (ca. 1897), by Margaret A. Frink, ed. by Ledyard Frink (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1839, by F. A. Wislizenus (illustrated HTML at xmission.com)
- A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 (London: G. Tucker, ca. 1888), by Rose Pender (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leaves of Knowledge (Spokane: Shaw and Borden Co., c1904), by Elma MacGibbon
- Life in the Far West (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849), by George Frederick Ruxton (page images in Germany)
- Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado, 1830-1835, by Warren Angus Ferris (HTML and PDF at xmission.com)
- The Life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and His Narrative of Explorations and Adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California, by John Charles Frémont (page images at MOA)
- A Narrative of Colonel Robert Campbell's Experiences in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade from 1825 to 1835, by Robert Campbell (HTML at xmission.com)
- Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper, 1831-1836, by Zenas Leonard (HTML at xmission.com)
- Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44 (London: Wiley and Putnam, 1846), by John Charles Frémont (page images in Germany)
- 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)
- Our New West, by Samuel Bowles (HTML at LOC)
- The Pacific Railroad -- Open. How to Go: What to See, by Samuel Bowles (page images at MOA)
- Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures, or, Life in the West, by John C. Van Tramp (page images at MOA)
- The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions (1859), by Randolph B. Marcy (HTML with commentary at kancoll.org)
- A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California, With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, Including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles (London: Richard Bentley, 1852), by Henry J. Coke (page images in Germany)
- Rocky Mountain Life: or, Startling Scenes and Perilous Adventures in the Far West, During an Expedition of Three Years (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1859), by Rufus B. Sage
- Roughing It, by Mark Twain
- The Solitary Hunter: or, Sporting Adventures in the Prairies (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1856), by John Palliser (page images in Germany)
- South by West: or, Winter in the Rocky Mountains and Spring in Mexico (London: W. Isbister and Co., 1874), by Rose Georgina Kingsley, ed. by Charles Kingsley (page images in Germany)
- Steep Trails, by John Muir
- Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border, by Randolph B. Marcy (page images at MOA)
- Travels With Jottings, From Midland to the Pacific (1880), by Edward D. Holton (PDF at loc.gov)
- The Western Avernus: or, Toil and Travel in Further North America (new edition; Westminster: A. Constable and Co., 1896), by Morley Roberts, illust. by A. D. McCormick (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Western Lands and Western Waters (London: S. O. Beeton, 1864), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wonderland: or, Twelve Weeks in and out of the United States, by Edward S. Parkinson (HTML at LOC)
- Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
- Beyond the Rockies: A Spring Journey in California, by Charles Augustus Stoddard (HTML at LOC)
- California: A Trip Across the Plains, In the Spring of 1850, by James Abbey (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- California and the West, 1881, and Later, by Lloyd Vernon Briggs (HTML at LOC)
- California Revisited, 1858-1897, by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (HTML at LOC)
- The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond (29th edition; Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons, 1887), by Ernest Ingersoll (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
- Excursion to the Oregon (1855 London edition), by John Kirk Townsend, ed. by William Chambers and Robert Chambers (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
- Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (page images in Germany)
- Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience During Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering From the Missouri to the Pacific and From Alaska to Mexico (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Carrie Adell Strahorn, illust. by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
- First Across the Continent: The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6, by Noah Brooks
- Following the Guidon (New York: Harper and Bros., 1890), by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
- Gass's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1904), by Patrick Gass, ed. by James K. Hosmer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters from the Pacific Slope, by Harvey Rice (HTML at LOC)
- Notes of Two Trips to California and Return, Taken in 1883 and 1886-7, by Solomon Mead (HTML at LOC)
- Oregon, or A Short History of a Long Journey, by John B. Wyeth (HTML at xmission.com)
- Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 (7 text volumes; 8th atlas "volume" omitted; New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904-5), by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites
- The Overland Stage to California (1901), by Frank A. Root and William Elsey Connelley (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
- Pilgrimage of Mary Commandery No. 36, by Clifford Paynter Allen (PDF at loc.gov)
- Report to Hon. A. V. Brown, Postmaster-General, on the Opening and Present Condition of the United States Overland Mail Route Between San Antonio, Texas, and San Diego, California, by Isaiah Churchill Woods (page images at MOA)
- Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)
- Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains, by George Frederick Ruxton (HTML at xmission.com)
- Across the Rockies to the Columbia, by John Kirk Townsend (HTML at xmission.com)
- Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871-1888), by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (Gutenberg text)
- Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 (32 volumes; Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1904-1907), ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, by Howard Stansbury (page images at MOA)
- Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains, by Howard Stansbury (page images in Germany)
- The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion, Also, Before and Since: Being an Encyclopedia and Panorama of the Western States, Pacific States and Territories of the Union (Cincinnati: F. A. Howe, 1865), by John Warner Barber and Henry Howe
- My Life on the Plains, by George A. Custer
- My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1874), by George A. Custer
- The New Rocky Mountain Tourist, Arkansas Valley and San Juan Guide (Chicago: Knight and Leonard, 1878), by J. G. Pangborn (page images in Germany)
- Nimrod's Wife (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, illust. by Walter King Stone and Ernest Thompson Seton
- An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
- The Pacific Tourist (New York: H. T. Williams, 1877), ed. by Henry T. Williams (page images at MOA)
- The Pacific Tourist (New York: H. T. Williams, 1879), ed. by Henry T. Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Two Americas: An Account of Sport and Travel, with Notes on Men and Manners in North and South America, by Rose Lambart Price (page images at MOA)
- Westward by Rail: The New Route to the East, by W. Fraser Rae (page images at MOA)
- The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California: Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Edition of 1845, with Historical Note and Bibliography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932), by Lansford Warren Hastings, ed. by Charles Henry Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
- The California Guide Book: Comprising Colonel Fremont's Geographical Account of Upper California; Major Emory's Overland Journey From Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas Del Norte and Gila Rivers; and Captain Fremont's Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, and to Oregon and North California; Accompanied with a Map of Various Routes, and a Map of the Gold Regions (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; Philadelphia: G. S. Appleton, 1849), by John Charles Frémont and William H. Emory (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
- 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)
- The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (Cincinnati: G. Conclin, 1845), by Lansford Warren Hastings (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Great Salt Lake Trail, by Henry Inman and Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
- A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, by Isabella L. Bird
- Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
- Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles (Chicago: Werner, 1896), by Nelson Appleton Miles (page images at Wisconsin)
- 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)
- Recollections and Reflections: An Auto of Half a Century and More, by Wharton J. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)
- Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route For a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, by United States War Department (page images at MOA)
- Tales of Lonely Trails, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
- The Trek of the Seven Sisters, by Monica Corrigan (illustrated HTML and PDF at Arizona)
- 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)
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