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• Women pioneers -- Colorado -- Pikes Peak Region -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- Illinois -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- Manitoba -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- Michigan -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- Ontario -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- Prairie Provinces -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- United States -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- Washington (State) -- Biography
• Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• 20th century Mormon women's autobiographical acts (Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (page images at HathiTrust)

• My travels and adventures in Alaska. (Seattle-Alaska Company, 1914), by Florence Lee Mallinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Augusta Tabor : her side of the scandal (Johnson Pub. Co., 1961), by Caroline Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal, by Caroline Bancroft (Gutenberg ebook)

• Deh-he-wa-mis (Published by William Seaver and Son, 1842), by James E. Seaver and Ebenezer Mix (page images at HathiTrust)

• A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Farm life in Manitoba (W.H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. SW, 1884), by Cecil Hall and W.H. Allen & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorial sermon, preached in the First Congregational Church of Detroit, May 16, 1880 (Hartford, Conn. : Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1880., 1880), by Zachary Eddy and Lockwood & Brainard Co Case (page images at HathiTrust)

• Winter Quarters: The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1996), by Mary Haskin Parker Richards, ed. by Maurine Carr Ward
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Winter Quarters (University Press of Colorado, 1996), by Maurine Ward (JSTOR ebook)

• Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)

• Roughing It in the Bush (second edition, with additions, 2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1852), by Susanna Moodie
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• Roughing It in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie, ed. by Andrew Sly (Gutenberg text)
• Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada (first edition; London: R. Bentley, 1852), by Susanna Moodie
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1854), by Susanna Moodie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada (new and revised edition; Toronto and Montreal: Hunter, Rose and Co.; Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1871), by Susanna Moodie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2010), by S. Leigh Matthews (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The life of an ordinary woman (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929), by Anne Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Woman on the American Frontier (Hartford: S.S. Scranton and Co., 1879), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at MOA)
• Woman on the American Frontier (Hartford: S.S. Scranton, 1881), by William Worthington Fowler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Jessie Benton Frémont, A Woman Who Made History (San Francisco: Printed by J. H. Nash, 1935), by Catherine Coffin Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)

• Whitman massacre. (Sponsored by Esther Reed Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1920), by Matilda J. Sager Delaney and Wash.) Daughters of the American Revolution. Esther Reed Chapter (Spokane (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• The Rebecca Winters story. (Scotts Bluff National Monument, 1996), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The life of an ordinary woman (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929), by Anne Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Ántonia (Houghton Mifflin, 1954), by Willa Cather (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light of western stars, a romance (Grosset & Dunlap, 1914), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial sermon, preached in the First Congregational Church of Detroit, May 16, 1880 (Hartford, Conn. : Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1880., 1880), by Zachary Eddy and Lockwood & Brainard Co Case (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1907), by Randall Parrish, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Crux: A Novel (New York: Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Light of Western Stars, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Molly McDonald: A Tale of the Old Frontier (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1912), by Randall Parrish, illust. by E. L. Blumenschein (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Ántonia (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), by Willa Cather, ed. by Charles Mignon, contrib. by James Leslie Woodress, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (illustrated HTML at unl.edu)
• From the West to the West: Across the Plains to Oregon (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1905), by Abigail Scott Duniway
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Lords of the North (Toronto: W. Briggs, ca. 1900), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)
• Betty Zane, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Betty Zane (with illustrations by the author; New York: C. Francis Press, c1903), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betty Zane (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Zane Grey, illust. by Louis F. Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Burning Daylight, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Burning Daylight (New York: The Daily Worker, c1910), by Jack London (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Klondyken Kuningas (Burning Daylight in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London, trans. by Kerttu Emilia Simolin (Gutenberg text)
• The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• My Ántonia (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Willa Cather, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (HTML and PDF at Elegant Ebooks)
• My Antonia, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg text)
• O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
  • illustrated HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• Onnen Suosikki (Burning Daylight in Finnish; Helsinki: Lindstedt'in Antikvaarinen Kirjakauppa, 1912), by Jack London, trans. by Kerttu Emilia Simolin (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Burning Daylight (Grosset & Dunlap, 1910), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Ántonia (Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Willa Cather, Marilyn Monroe, and Wladyslaw T. Benda (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Ántonia (Houghton Mifflin, 1954), by Willa Cather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burning Daylight (The Macmillan company, 1910), by Jack London, George Hood, Wallace Morgan, Berwick & Smith, J.S. Cushing & Co, Norwood Press, and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the west to the west; across the plains to Oregon ... (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1905), by Abigail Scott Duniway, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and A.C. McClurg & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of the border: a romance of the early settlers in the Ohio valley (A.L. Burt company, 1906), by Zane Grey and J. Watson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burning daylight (The Macmillan company, ;, 1913), by Jack London and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last trail : a story of early days in the Ohio Valley (A.L. Burt Company, 1909), by Zane Grey, J. Watson Davis, and A.L. Burt Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crux : a novel (Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl of the golden West (Dodd, Mead and company, 1911), by David Belasco (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Black Creek stopping-house : and other stories (Toronto : William Briggs, 1912., 1912), by Nellie L. McClung (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the West to the West : Across the plains to Oregon, by Abigail Scott Duniway (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lännen tähtien alla (in Finnish), by Zane Grey, trans. by A. J. Salonen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl of the Golden West, by David Belasco, illust. by J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West, by Alfred Ernest Rice, illust. by Colista Murray Dowling (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Ántonia, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl of the Golden West, by David Belasco (Gutenberg ebook)

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