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• How they lived (Paumanok press, 1941), by Birdsall Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Yennycott folks : an historical romance of the pioneer days of Long Island, touching upon such well-known families as the Hallock, Terry, Yonges, Horton, Tuttle, Salmon, Conkelyne, Goldsmith, Moore, Akerly, Booth, Herbert, Benjamin, Miller, King, Brown, Elton, Case, Tucker, Wines, Haynes, Corey and Payne families (J.S. Oglivie Publishing Company, 1910), by Metta Horton Cook and J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Day in Bohemia, or Life Among the Artists, by John Reed (HTML at swbell.net)
• Greenwich Village in poetry showing the Village as it really was and as is [i.e. it] actually is (Greenwich Village Weekly News, 1923), by Clement Wood and C. Grand Pierre (page images at HathiTrust)

• Enchanted Acre: Adventures in Backyard Farming (New York and London: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1935), by Gove Hambidge (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• York state rural problems (J. B. Lyon company, 1913), by L. H. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• New England and its neighbors (The Macmillan Company; [etc., etc.], 1902), by Clifton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A land-lover and his land (Priv. pub., 1909), by Martha McCulloch-Williams and Elijah Watt Sells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walking the broad highway; sketches of the men and events of our times. (American agriculturist, 1956), by E. R. Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
• New England and its neighbors (Macmillan, 1924), by Clifton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• New England and its neighbors (The Macmillan company; [etc., etc.], 1902), by Clifton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rural hours (Putnam, 1851), by Susan Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Farm wanted (J. Messner, 1951), by Helen Train Hilles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bound to rise. (Chatterton-Peck Co., 1900), by Allen Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Farmer Boy (c1933), by Laura Ingalls Wilder (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The communities of Schuyler County, New York, 1927 (Cornell University, 1931), by Ray E. Wakeley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The relation of cities and larger villages to changes in rural trade and social areas in Wayne County, New York. (Ithaca, N.Y., 1929), by Harold Hoffsommer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Farmhouse planning guides, household activity data and space needs related to design. ([Ithaca?], 1959), by Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station and New York State College of Home Economics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reminiscences of farm life in western New York, seventy years ago (s.n.], 1894), by William R. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eben Holden, a tale of the north country (Grosset & Dunlap, 1900), by Irving Bacheller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The standard of life in a typical section of diversified farming. ([Ithaca, N.Y.], 1922), by E. L. Kirkpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Up the river. (C. Scribner, 1853), by F. W. Shelton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New-York cries, in rhyme. (Printed & sold by Mahlon Day, at the New Juvenile Book-Store, No. 376 Pearl-Street, 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New-York cries in rhyme. (Day, 1939) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Cries of New-York illustrated by fifteen original designs (Published by S. King, 1830), by Knickerbocker and Solomon King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cries of New York. (Printed and sold by the Harbor Press, 1931), by Alexander Anderson, firm Wood, and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New York World's Fair, 1964-1965. (New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corp.], 1961), by N.Y.) New York World's Fair (1964-1965 : New York (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New York State Fair. ([Albany], 1975), by New York (State). Legislature. Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review and John J. Marchi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Premium book ([s.n.], 1938), by N.Y.) New York State Fair 1938 : Syracuse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Amerikanische Kinderreime. (Glöss, 1896), by Karl Knortz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Through "Poverty's Vale": A Hardscrabble Boyhood in Upstate New York, 1832-1862 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1974), by Henry Conklin, ed. by Wendell Edward Tripp (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)
• The frontiersmen of New York : showing customs of the Indians, vicissitudes of the pioneer white settlers, and border strife in two wars (G.C. Riggs, 1882), by J. R. Simms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twigs from family trees; or, 162 early American and foreign lineages of first settlers in this country and their descendants who were pioneers in northern Pennsylvania and central New York; together with royal lineages, revolutionary journals, incidents and anecdotes of the old timers, and a register of the marriages and deaths of the pioneers. Carefully compiled from authentic sources (The author, 1938), by Edward Coolbaugh Hoagland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide in the wilderness : or The history of the first settlements in the western counties of New York, with useful instructions to future settlers ; in a series of letters (The Freeman's Journal Co., 1949), by William Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Guide to the wilderness : or, The history of the first settlement [i.e. settlements] in the western counties of New York, with useful instructions to future settlers (Gilbert & Hodges, 1897), by William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian and the pioneer, an historical study (C. W. Bardeen, 1893), by Rose N. Yawger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Century farms of New York State. (New York Telephone Company, 1947), by New York Telephone Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and lines of Indian character, and scenes of pioneer life (E. H. Babcock ;, 1854), by Joshua V. H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneers of New-York : an anniversary discourse delivered before the St. Nicholas Society of Manhattan, December 6, 1847 (Stanford and Swords, 1848), by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Walt Whitman, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress), and Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and lines of Indian character (Derby and Jackson, 1860), by Joshua Victor Hopkins Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Minisink country (Printed by the Schilling Press, 1912), by Horace E. Twichell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer period of western New York. Being largely reminiscences of the struggles to lay the foundations of an empire in the wilderness; and of the burning of Buffalo, the surrender of Fort Niagara, the flight of the inhabitants; with many incidents never before published. (Bigelow Bros., 1888), by Chipman P. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide in the wilderness : or The history of the first settlements in the western counties of New York, with useful instructions to future settlers. In a series of letters addressed by Judge Cooper, of Cooperstown, to William Sampson, barrister, of New York. (s.n.] ;, 1936), by William Cooper and William Sampson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide in the wilderness; or The history of the first settlement in the western counties of New York, with useful instructions to future settlers. (G.P. Humphrey, 1897), by William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early trade routes. Adventures and recollections of a pioneer trader (1902), by James Sloan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of early years in the life of Judge Augustus Porter. (1904), by Augustus Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judah Colt's narrative; experiences as pioneer surveyor in western New York, and as agent for the Pennsylvania population company, 1789-1808. (1904), by Judah Colt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of David Ramsay, trapper, smuggler and Indian slayer on the shores of Lake Erie and the Niagara. (Buffalo, 1904), by David Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)

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