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• Ranching Women in Southern Alberta (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), by Rachel Herbert (PDF with commentary at Calgary)

• Ranching Women in Southern Alberta (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), by Rachel Herbert (PDF with commentary at Calgary)

• Wolfville, by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)
• Wolfville Days, by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)

• Woman in Levi's, by Eulalia Bourne (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Country Nodes: An Anthropological Evaluation of William Keys' Desert Queen Ranch, Joshua Tree National Monument, California (Washington : Cultural Resources Management Division, 1977), by Patricia L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• More Rawhides (first revised edition; Pasadena: Trail's End Pub. Co., 1946), by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Flying U Strikes (c1934), by B. M. Bower (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 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)
• 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)
• Meadowlark Basin (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by B. M. Bower, illust. by George W. Gage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Moccasin Ranch: A Story of Dakota (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1909), by Hamlin Garland
  • page images at openlibrary.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Mr. Scraggs (New York: Grafton Press, 1906), by Henry Wallace Phillips, illust. by Martin Justice and N. C. Wyeth
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without illustrations: Gutenberg text
• Prairie Flowers (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1920), by James B. Hendryx (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Rawhide Rawlins Stories (Great Falls, MT: Printed by Montana Newspaper Association, 1921), by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911), by Andy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Wire Cutters (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1899), by M. E. M. Davis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hay-Wire (Toronto: McClelland and Stuart, 1928), by B. M. Bower (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Buck Peters, Ranchman: Being the Story of What Happened When Buck Peters, Hopalong Cassidy, and Their Bar-20 Associates Went to Montana (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1912), by Clarence Edward Mulford and John Wood Clay, illust. by Maynard Dixon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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 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 Red Pony (illustrator died in 1966; c1937), by John Steinbeck, illust. by Wesley Dennis (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Pride of Palomar (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1922), by Peter B. Kyne, illust. by Harry Russell Ballinger and Dean Cornwell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Range Dwellers (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1906), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Charles M. Russell (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)
• Skyrider (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1919), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Of Mice and Men (c1937), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 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)
• The Quirt (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wolfville Nights (1902), by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)

• Bob Chester's Grit: or, From Ranch to Riches, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy From the Ranch: or, Roy Bradner's City Experiences, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Pony Rider Boys in Texas: or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1910), by Frank Gee Patchin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Scarface Ranch: or, The Young Homesteaders (New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1914), by Edwin L. Sabin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comrades of the Saddle: or, The Young Rough Riders of the Plains, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg text)
• A Yankee Lad's Pluck: How Bert Larkin Saved His Father's Ranch in the Island of Porto Rico (New York: A. L. Burt, c1900), by William P. Chipman, illust. by J. Watson Davis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Young Ranchers: or, Fighting the Sioux (Philadelphia: H. T. Coates and Co., c1895), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch (published under "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym; Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1913), by L. Frank Baum (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Great Cattle Trail (Philadelphia et al.: J. C. Winston Co., c1894), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, by Theodore Roosevelt, illust. by Frederic Remington (illustrated HTML at Bartleby)
• Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at PBS)

• Old Deseret Live Stock Company: A Stockman's Memoir (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by W. Dean Frischknecht (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, by Theodore Roosevelt, illust. by Frederic Remington (illustrated HTML at Bartleby)
• Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at PBS)
• Cowboys, North and South (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1924), by Will James (page images at HathiTrust)

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