Frontier and pioneer life -- Kentucky
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Simon Kenton: His Life and Period, 1755-1836 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1930), by Edna Kenton (page images at HathiTrust)- Legends of the War of Independence, and of the Earlier Settlements in the West (Louisville: J. F. Brennan, 1855), by T. Marshall Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Nick of the Woods: or, Adventures of Prairie Life, by Robert Montgomery Bird (Gutenberg text)
- Blazing Arrow: A Tale of the Frontier (Philadelphia: H. T. Coates and Co., 1900), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Boy Hunters of Kentucky (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1889), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer; With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1884), by Edward Sylvester Ellis
- The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, by John Filson, contrib. by Daniel Boone (Gutenberg text)
- The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon (from George Imlay's 1793 edition), by John Filson, contrib. by Daniel Boone (illustrated HTML at earlyamerica.com)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Frontier and pioneer life- The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being the Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Louisa Barnes Pratt, ed. by S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- A Woman Who Went to Alaska (Boston: James H. Earle and Co., c1902), by May Kellogg Sullivan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Appalachian Frontier: America's First Surge Westward (with new introduction; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2003), by John Anthony Caruso, contrib. by John C. Inscoe (PDF at Tennessee)
- The Roll Away Saloon: Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip (originally published 1979; this edition Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1985), by Rowland W. Rider, contrib. by Deirdre Paulsen (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Recollections of a California Pioneer (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1917), by Carlisle S. Abbott
- Arizona and Sonora: The Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Region of North America, by Sylvester Mowry (page images at MOA)
- So Far and Yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by W. M. Elofson (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- The Passing of a Race, and More Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1905), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Mystic Spring, and Other Tales of Western Life (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1904), by David Williams Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)
- Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er: Memories Recalled Years Later for Her Daughter Correnah Wilson Wright (Mills College, CA: Eucalyptus Press, 1937), by Luzena Stanley Wilson, ed. by Correnah Wilson Wright, contrib. by Francis P. Farquhar, illust. by Kathryn Uhl
- Appreciation of Loved Ones Who Made Life Rich for Many (1933), by Lilian A. Cross (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
- The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)
- California, 1849-1913: or, The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in That State, by L. H. Woolley (Gutenberg text)
- California All the Way Back to 1828, by Michael Claringbud White (HTML at LOC)
- From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer, by Henry Hiram Ellis (PDF at LOC)
- Gold and Sunshine: Reminiscences of Early California, by James J. Ayers (PDF at loc.gov)
- History of California, by Helen Elliott Bandini (Gutenberg text)
- The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern California, by Sim Moak (HTML at LOC)
- A Letter from A Gold Miner, Placerville, California, October 1850, by S. Shufelt, contrib. by Robert Glass Cleland (HTML at LOC)
- A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
- Recollections of a California Pioneer (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1917), by Carlisle S. Abbott
- Reminiscences of a Ranger: or, Early Times in Southern California, by Horace Bell (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
- Touching Incidents in the Life and Labors of a Pioneer on the Pacific Coast Since 1853 (San Jose: Eaton and Co., 1911), by Joseph Wilkinson Hines
- A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848, by John Alfred Swan, ed. by John A. Hussey (HTML at LOC)
- A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush, by Franklin Agustus Buck (PDF with commentary at LOC)
- Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence: Being Letters Hitherto Uncollected From the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader and the New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852 (Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1952), by Alonzo Delano, ed. by Irving McKee, illust. by Stewart Mitchell and Harry O. Diamond
- Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), ed. by Kristin Johnson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- California Letters of Lucius Fairchild (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1931), by Lucius Fairchild, ed. by Joseph Schafer (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
- The Gold Seekers of '49: A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trail and Adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854 (Manchester, NH: Standard Book Co., 1917), by Kimball Webster, contrib. by George Waldo Browne, illust. by Frank Holland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Golden Dreams and Waking Realities, by William Shaw (HTML at LOC)
- The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
- The Land of Little Rain (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903), by Mary Austin
- Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (HTML at LOC)
- A Pioneer at Sutter's Fort, 1846-1850, by Heinrich Lienhard, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
- Ranch Life in California, by Evelyn M. Herstlet
- Recollections of Pioneer Work in California (San Francisco: J. WInterburn and Co., 1878), by James Woods
- Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings (New York: Harper and Bros., 1852), by Daniel Bates Woods (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- One Man's Gold: The Letters and Journal of a Forty-Niner (1930), by Enos Christman, ed. by Florence Morrow Christman (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
- The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
- Recollections of a Newspaperman: A Record of Life and Events in California, by Frank Aleamon Leach (PDF at loc.gov)
- Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849 (Washington: Printed by J. T. Towers, 1850), by California Constitutional Convention (1849), ed. by J. Ross Browne
- Scharmann's Overland Journey to California, by Herman B. Scharmann, trans. by Margaret Hoff Zimmerman and Erich W. Zimmerman (HTML at LOC)
- Three Years in California, by John David Borthwick
- Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit, Joaquin Murrieta: His Exploits in the State of California (Chicago: Regan Pub. Corp., 1925), by Ireneo Paz, trans. by Frances P. Belle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Negro Trail Blazers of California: A Compilation of Records From the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley, and From the Diaries, Old Papers and Conversations of Old Pioneers in the State of California (Los Angeles, 1919), by Delilah L. Beasley
- Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9 (two volumes), by William Redmond Ryan (HTML at LOC)
- Vida y Aventuras del Más Célebre Bandido Sonorense, Joaquín Murrieta, y Sus Grandes Proezas en el Estado de California (sixth edition, in Spanish; Los Angeles: C. G. Vincent and Co., 1923), by Ireneo Paz
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