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• Movements, Human

• Production Ergonomics: Designing Work Systems to Support Optimal Human Performance (London: Ubiquity Press, c2017), by Cecilia Berlin and Caroline Adams (multiple formats with commentary at Ubiquity Press)

• Fidget (2000), by Kenneth Goldsmith (audio reading at PennSound)

• Running Times (partial serial archives)

• Distance Running (Association of International Marathons and Distance Races publication; full and partial issue content online 2004-) (partial serial archives)

• Fred Fenton, Marathon Runner: The Great Race at Riverport School, by Allen Chapman (Gutenberg text)

• Walking, by Henry David Thoreau (Gutenberg text)
• Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts (New York: Girl Scouts, Inc., ca. 1930), by Girl Scouts of the United States of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Hoosier Tramp (Chicago: Prairie Club, 1928), by Samuel A. Harper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, by Charles Dickens, illust. by Arthur Jule Goodman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Walks in South Lancashire and on its Borders: With Letters, Descriptions, Narratives, and Observations, Current and Incidental (1844), by Samuel Bamford (HTML in the UK)

• Walks in London (New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1878), by Augustus J. C. Hare
  • Volume 1: HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 2: HTML at Tufts

• Bicycling and Walking in the United States: Benchmarking Report, by Alliance for Biking & Walking (full serial archives)

• Active Travel Studies (full serial archives)

• Bicycling and Walking in the United States: Benchmarking Report, by Alliance for Biking & Walking (full serial archives)

• Bicycling and Walking in the United States: Benchmarking Report, by Alliance for Biking & Walking (full serial archives)

• NPS Trails Management Handbook (Denver: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 1988), by Lennon Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

• 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 Chisholm Trail and Other Routes (Bander, TX: Printed for Frontier Times by the Naylor Co., 1936), by T. U. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Longhorn: A Story of the Chisholm Trail (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, c1956), by Bruce Grant, illust. by Herman D. Giesen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mormon Trail: Yesterday and Today (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), by William E. Hill (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Girl Rough Riders: A Romantic and Adventurous Trail of Fair Rough Riders Through the Wonderland of Mystery and Silence (Boston: D. Estes and Co., c1903), by Prentiss Ingraham, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)

• NPS Trails Management Handbook (Denver: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 1988), by Lennon Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., 1922), by Ezra Meeker and Howard R. Driggs, illust. by F. N. Wilson (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
• A Day With the Cow Column in 1843 (Portland, OR: Champoeg Press, 1952), by Jesse A. Applegate, contrib. by Dorothy Johansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)
• 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)
• Pioneer Tales of the Oregon Trail and of Jefferson County (Topeka: Crane and Co., 1912), by Charles Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lost Wagon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1955), by Jim Kjelgaard, illust. by Albert Orbaan and Gerald McCann (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Covered Wagon (with illustrations from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1922), by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Antoine of Oregon: A Story of the Oregon Trail (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1912), by James Otis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Old Apache Trail (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1921), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway, by Henry Inman, contrib. by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
• Santa Fe Trail, by Kansas State Historical Society (HTML at kancoll.org)
• The Second William Penn: A True Account of Incidents That Happened Along the Old Santa Fe Trail in the Sixties, by W. H. Ryus (Gutenberg text)
• Down the Santa Fé Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University press, 1926), by Susan Shelby Magoffin, ed. by Stella M. Drumm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commerce of the Prairies, by Josiah Gregg (HTML at kancoll.org)

• The Two Hunters, or, The Cañon Camp: A Romance of the Santa Fe Trail (New York: Beadle and Co., c1865), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• California Desert Trails (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919), by J. Smeaton Chase (page images in Germany)

• California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride From Mexico to Oregon (1913), by J. Smeaton Chase (illustrated HTML at ventanawild.org)

• Santa Fe Trail, by Kansas State Historical Society (HTML at kancoll.org)

• Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park, Maine: History, Existing Conditions, and Analysis (2006), by Margie Coffin Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park, Maine: History, Existing Conditions, and Analysis (2006), by Margie Coffin Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Red River Carts Trek Historic Pembina Trail (second printing; Warren, MN: W. Sheaf, ca. 1958), by E. Neil Mattson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2013), by Janice Gary (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Barefoot Hiker, by Richard Keith Frazine (illustrated HTML at bhthom.org)
• The Boy Scout's Hike Book (Garden City, NY:, Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Edward Cave (page images at HathiTrust)

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