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Scouting (Reconnaissance)

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• Frontier and pioneer life
• Military reconnaissance

• Scouting (Reconnaissance) -- Fiction
• Scouting (Reconnaissance) -- German East Africa

• Frontier scouting
• Military scouting
• Scouts and scouting

• Aids to Scouting for N.-C.Os. and Men (revised and enlarged edition; Aldershot: Printed by Gale and Polden, 1915), by Robert Baden-Powell (PDF at scoutscan.com)
• Reconnaissance and Scouting: A Practical Course of Instruction, in Twenty Plain Lessons, for Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men (London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1891), by Robert Baden-Powell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scouting on Two Continents (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1926), by Frederick Russell Burnham, ed. by Mary Nixon Everett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Simon Kenton, or, The Scout's Revenge: An Historical Novel (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by James Weir (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1851), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

• Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1919), by Herbert Strang, illust. by Walter Paget (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

• 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)

• I've Killed Men (London: R. Hale Ltd., ca. 1940), by Jack Ganzhorn, ed. by Howard R. Marsh
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • page images at Michigan
• 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)
• Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928), by William M. Breakenridge, contrib. by William MacLeod Raine
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images with commentary at Arizona Memory
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Recollections of a California Pioneer (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1917), by Carlisle S. Abbott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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 Black Hills Trails: A History of the Struggles of the Pioneers in the Winning of the Black Hills (Rapid City, SD: Rapid City Journal Co., 1924), by Jesse Brown and A. M. Willard, ed. by John T. Milek
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • unillustrated transcription: PDF and XML at loc.gov
• 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 (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• 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 C. White (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• 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 (1923), by Sim Moak (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Letter from A Gold Miner, Placerville, California, October 1850, by S. Shufelt, contrib. by Robert Glass Cleland (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• Recollections of a California Pioneer (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1917), by Carlisle S. Abbott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • PDF with commentary at loc.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848, by John A. Swan, ed. by John A. Hussey (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• 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
  • PDF with commentary at loc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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 (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• The Land of Little Rain (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903), by Mary Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• A Pioneer at Sutter's Fort, 1846-1850, by Heinrich Lienhard, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• Ranch Life in California, by Evelyn M. Herstlet
  • PDF with commentary at loc.gov
  • multiple formats with commentary at Google
• Recollections of Pioneer Work in California (San Francisco: J. WInterburn and Co., 1878), by James Woods
  • PDF at loc.gov
  • multiple formats at Google
• 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 (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and XML at LOC
• Scharmann's Overland Journey to California, by Herman B. Scharmann, trans. by Margaret Hoff Zimmerman and Erich W. Zimmerman (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
• Three Years in California, by John David Borthwick
  • PDF with commentary at LOC
  • page images in Germany
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9 (two volumes), by William Redmond Ryan (PDF files with commentary at loc.gov)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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