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• 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)

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

• 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)
• The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail (Guthrie, OK: Co-Operative Pub. Co., c1936), by Sam P. Ridings (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses, by A. B. Paterson (Gutenberg text)

• Arizona Nights, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
• Cabin Fever, by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• The Duke of Chimney Butte (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1920), by George W. Ogden, illust. by P. V. E. Ivory
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Duke of Chimney Butte (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by George W. Ogden, illust. by P. V. E. Ivory (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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 Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days, by Andy Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Lure of the Dim Trails, by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• The Range Dwellers (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1906), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Charles M. Russell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Rowdy of the "Cross L", by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• Trail's End (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1921), by George W. Ogden, illust. by P. V. E. Ivory (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and zipped page images)
• The Flying U Strikes (c1934), by B. M. Bower (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Gun Gospel (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1926), by W. D. Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bruvver Jim's Baby (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by Philip Verrill Mighels
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Her Prairie Knight, by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• Meadowlark Basin (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by B. M. Bower, illust. by George W. Gage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Prairie Flowers (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1920), by James B. Hendryx (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Skyrider (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1919), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wolfville Nights (1902), by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)
• The Virginian, by Owen Wister (multiple editions)
• The Cow Puncher (Toronto: Musson Book Co., c1918), by Robert J. C. Stead, illust. by Arthur Heming (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Outlet, by Andy Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Starr, of the Desert (1917), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1903), by Ridgwell Cullum (Gutenberg text)
• Of Mice and Men (c1937), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Quirt (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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 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)

• Comrades of the Saddle: or, The Young Rough Riders of the Plains, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text)
• Cowboy Dave: or, The Round-Up at Rolling River, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text)
• Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges (1904), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)
• Dave Porter at Star Ranch: or, The Cowboy's Secret (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1910), by Edward Stratemeyer, illust. by Lyle T. Hammond (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Bob Chester's Grit: or, From Ranch to Riches, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Border Boys Across the Frontier (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1911), by Fremont B. Deering (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Golden West Boys "Injun" and "Whitey": A Story of Adventure (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1919), by William S. Hart, illust. by Morris Hall Pancoast
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Great Cattle Trail (Philadelphia et al.: J. C. Winston Co., c1894), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Injun and Whitey Strike Out for Themselves (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1921), by William S. Hart, illust. by Harold James Cue
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Injun and Whitey to the Rescue (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1922), by William S. Hart, illust. by Harold James Cue
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pinto Ben, and Other Stories (New York: Britton Publishing Company, c1919), by William S. Hart and Mary Hart, illust. by R. L. Lambdin (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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