West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature
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Book Trails Winding Westward (v7 of the Book Trails series; Chicago: Shepard and Lawrence, c1928), ed. by Renée B. Stern and Muriel Fuller (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel, U.S.A., by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel, U.S.A., by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel, U.S.A., by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)
- Stories of Great American Scouts: Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Lewis and Clark, Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill (Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., c1924), by John Jay Jones (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel, U.S.A., by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)
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Filed under: West (U.S.)- Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, by Henry Nash Smith (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
- The States and Territories of the Great West (New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan; Buffalo: E. F. Beadle, 1856), by Jacob Ferris
- The Elevations of Certain Datum-Points on the Great Lakes and Rivers and in the Rocky Mountains, by James T. Gardiner (page images at MOA)
- At the Grass Roots: Comprising "The Christmas of 1883", and Other Vagrant Sketches (Topeka: Crane and Co., 1905), by Jay E. House, illust. by Albert Turner Reid
- The Trans-Mississippi West: A Guide to its Periodical Literature (1811-1938) (Indiana University Social Science Series #3; Bloomington: Indiana University, c1942), by Oscar Osburn Winther (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion (Stillwater, OK: Barbed Wire Press, c1991), by Bill O'Neal (page images at Portal to Texas History)
- Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides; Including a True and Thrilling History of Gen. Custer's Famous "Last Fight" on the Little Big Horn, with Sitting Bull (New York and St. Louis: N. D. Thompson and Co., 1882), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, "White Beaver", Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides (St. Louis and Philadelphia: Historical Pub. Co., 1883), by James W. Buel
- One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Ronald O. Barney (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane
- Copies of Calamity Jane's Diary and Letters, Taken From the Originals Now On Exhibit at the Western Trails Museum, Billings, Montana (claimed Calamity Jane authorship disputed by historians; published ca. 1949), contrib. by Jean Hickok McCormick and Calamity Jane (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by James Willard Schultz (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (New York et al.: Harper and Row, c1904; edition published after author's death), by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871-1888), by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (Gutenberg text)
- An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920), by Buffalo Bill, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself (1907), by Nat Love (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Lone Star Cowboy: Being Fifty Years Experience in the Saddle as Cowboy, Detective and New Mexico Ranger, on Every Cow Trail in the Wooly Old West (1919), by Charles A. Siringo
- The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough
- Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)
- Over the Edge: Remapping the American West (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Valerie J. Matsumoto and Blake Allmendinger (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2000), ed. by Polly Stewart, Steve Siporin, Charles Wm. Sullivan, and Suzi Jones (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- The Diaries of William Henry Jackson, Frontier Photographer: To California and Return, 1866-67; and With the Hayden Surveys to the Central Rockies, 1873, and to the Utes and cliff Dwellings, 1874 (The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series v10; Glendale, CA: A. H. Clark Co., 1959), by William Henry Jackson, ed. by LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Journal of Mrs. Mary Ringo: A Diary of Her Trip Across the Great Plains in 1864 (published 1956), by Mary Ringo, contrib. by Mattie Bell Cushing (page images at loc.gov)
- Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820 (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823), by Edwin James
- Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific Coast, with Speaker Colfax (Springfield, MA: Samuel Bowles and Company; New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865), by Samuel Bowles (page images in Germany)
- Across the Plains, With Other Memories and Essays, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
- Beyond the West, by George W. Pine (page images at MOA)
- A Boy Scout Goes West, by Rembrandt P. McCreight (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Buffalo Land: An Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co., 1872), by W. E. Webb, illust. by Henry Worrall
- California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, by Mrs. Frank Leslie, contrib. by Madeleine B. Stern (PDF at LOC)
- California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1877), by Mrs. Frank Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Central Pacific Railroad: A Trip Across the North American Continent from Ogden to San Francisco (New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871) (illustrated HTML at cprr.org)
- Central Route to the Pacific, by Gwinn Harris Heap (page images at MOA)
- The Conquest of Arid America, by William Ellsworth Smythe (HTML at LOC)
- The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California, by Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont, To Which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, With Recent Notices of the Gold Region From the Latest and Most Authentic Sources (fifteenth thousand, 1852), by John Charles Frémont (Gutenberg text)
- Five Months' Fine Weather in Canada, Western U.S., and Mexico (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1889), by Mary Rhodes Carbutt
- The Great West and Pacific Coast, by James Fowler Rusling (page images at MOA)
- The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, With an Examination of the Mormon Principle (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1870), by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (page images in Germany)
- The Hunting Grounds of the Great West: A Description of the Plains, Game, and Indians of the Great North American Desert (London: Chatto and Windus, 1877), by Richard Irving Dodge, contrib. by William Blackmore (multiple formats at aerchive.org)
- Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, by Solomon Nunes Carvalho
- Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold-Seekers Under the Guidance of Mr. Ledyard Frink During a Journey Across the Plains From Martinsville, Indiana, to Sacramento, California, from March 30, 1850, to September 7, 1850: From the Original Diary of the Trip Kept by Mrs. Margaret A. Frink (ca. 1897), by Margaret A. Frink, ed. by Ledyard Frink (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1839, by F. A. Wislizenus (illustrated HTML at xmission.com)
- A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 (London: G. Tucker, ca. 1888), by Rose Pender (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leaves of Knowledge (Spokane: Shaw and Borden Co., c1904), by Elma MacGibbon
- Life in the Far West (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849), by George Frederick Ruxton (page images in Germany)
- Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado, 1830-1835, by Warren Angus Ferris (HTML and PDF at xmission.com)
- The Life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and His Narrative of Explorations and Adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California, by John Charles Frémont (page images at MOA)
- A Narrative of Colonel Robert Campbell's Experiences in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade from 1825 to 1835, by Robert Campbell (HTML at xmission.com)
- Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper, 1831-1836, by Zenas Leonard (HTML at xmission.com)
- Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44 (London: Wiley and Putnam, 1846), by John Charles Frémont (page images in Germany)
- 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)
- Our New West, by Samuel Bowles (HTML at LOC)
- The Pacific Railroad -- Open. How to Go: What to See, by Samuel Bowles (page images at MOA)
- Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures, or, Life in the West, by John C. Van Tramp (page images at MOA)
- The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions (1859), by Randolph B. Marcy (HTML with commentary at kancoll.org)
- A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California, With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, Including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles (London: Richard Bentley, 1852), by Henry J. Coke (page images in Germany)
- Rocky Mountain Life: or, Startling Scenes and Perilous Adventures in the Far West, During an Expedition of Three Years (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1859), by Rufus B. Sage
- Roughing It, by Mark Twain
- The Solitary Hunter: or, Sporting Adventures in the Prairies (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1856), by John Palliser (page images in Germany)
- South by West: or, Winter in the Rocky Mountains and Spring in Mexico (London: W. Isbister and Co., 1874), by Rose Georgina Kingsley, ed. by Charles Kingsley (page images in Germany)
- Steep Trails, by John Muir
- Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border, by Randolph B. Marcy (page images at MOA)
- Travels With Jottings, From Midland to the Pacific (1880), by Edward D. Holton (PDF at loc.gov)
- The Western Avernus: or, Toil and Travel in Further North America (new edition; Westminster: A. Constable and Co., 1896), by Morley Roberts, illust. by A. D. McCormick (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Western Lands and Western Waters (London: S. O. Beeton, 1864), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wonderland: or, Twelve Weeks in and out of the United States, by Edward S. Parkinson (HTML at LOC)
- Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
- Beyond the Rockies: A Spring Journey in California, by Charles Augustus Stoddard (HTML at LOC)
- California: A Trip Across the Plains, In the Spring of 1850, by James Abbey (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- California and the West, 1881, and Later, by Lloyd Vernon Briggs (HTML at LOC)
- California Revisited, 1858-1897, by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (HTML at LOC)
- The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond (29th edition; Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons, 1887), by Ernest Ingersoll (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
- Excursion to the Oregon (1855 London edition), by John Kirk Townsend, ed. by William Chambers and Robert Chambers (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
- Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (page images in Germany)
- Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience During Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering From the Missouri to the Pacific and From Alaska to Mexico (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Carrie Adell Strahorn, illust. by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
- First Across the Continent: The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6, by Noah Brooks
- Following the Guidon (New York: Harper and Bros., 1890), by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
- Gass's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1904), by Patrick Gass, ed. by James K. Hosmer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Letters from the Pacific Slope, by Harvey Rice (HTML at LOC)
- Notes of Two Trips to California and Return, Taken in 1883 and 1886-7, by Solomon Mead (HTML at LOC)
- Oregon, or A Short History of a Long Journey, by John B. Wyeth (HTML at xmission.com)
- Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 (7 text volumes; 8th atlas "volume" omitted; New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904-5), by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites
- Volume 1: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
- Volume 2: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
- Volume 3: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
- Volume 4: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
- Volume 5: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
- Volume 6: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
- Volume 7: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
- The Overland Stage to California (1901), by Frank A. Root and William Elsey Connelley (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
- Pilgrimage of Mary Commandery No. 36, by Clifford Paynter Allen (PDF at loc.gov)
- Report to Hon. A. V. Brown, Postmaster-General, on the Opening and Present Condition of the United States Overland Mail Route Between San Antonio, Texas, and San Diego, California, by Isaiah Churchill Woods (page images at MOA)
- Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)
- Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains, by George Frederick Ruxton (HTML at xmission.com)
- Across the Rockies to the Columbia, by John Kirk Townsend (HTML at xmission.com)
- Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871-1888), by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (Gutenberg text)
- Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 (32 volumes; Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1904-1907), ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, by Howard Stansbury (page images at MOA)
- Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains, by Howard Stansbury (page images in Germany)
- The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion, Also, Before and Since: Being an Encyclopedia and Panorama of the Western States, Pacific States and Territories of the Union (Cincinnati: F. A. Howe, 1865), by John Warner Barber and Henry Howe
- My Life on the Plains, by George A. Custer
- My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1874), by George A. Custer
- The New Rocky Mountain Tourist, Arkansas Valley and San Juan Guide (Chicago: Knight and Leonard, 1878), by J. G. Pangborn (page images in Germany)
- Nimrod's Wife (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, illust. by Walter King Stone and Ernest Thompson Seton
- An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
- The Pacific Tourist (New York: H. T. Williams, 1877), ed. by Henry T. Williams (page images at MOA)
- The Pacific Tourist (New York: H. T. Williams, 1879), ed. by Henry T. Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Two Americas: An Account of Sport and Travel, with Notes on Men and Manners in North and South America, by Rose Lambart Price (page images at MOA)
- Westward by Rail: The New Route to the East, by W. Fraser Rae (page images at MOA)
- The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California: Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Edition of 1845, with Historical Note and Bibliography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932), by Lansford Warren Hastings, ed. by Charles Henry Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
- The California Guide Book: Comprising Colonel Fremont's Geographical Account of Upper California; Major Emory's Overland Journey From Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas Del Norte and Gila Rivers; and Captain Fremont's Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, and to Oregon and North California; Accompanied with a Map of Various Routes, and a Map of the Gold Regions (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; Philadelphia: G. S. Appleton, 1849), by John Charles Frémont and William H. Emory (page images at HathiTrust)
- Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier; Also, a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer, With a Full Account of His Last Battle (Hartford: Columbian Book Co., 1877), by Frances Fuller Victor
- Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier; Also, a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer, With a Full Account of His Last Battle (based on the 1881 edition, with some illustrations scanned from the 1877 edition), by Frances Fuller Victor (HTML with commentary at Wikisource)
- The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (Cincinnati: G. Conclin, 1845), by Lansford Warren Hastings (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Great Salt Lake Trail, by Henry Inman and Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
- A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, by Isabella L. Bird
- Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
- Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles (Chicago: Werner, 1896), by Nelson Appleton Miles (page images at Wisconsin)
- 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)
- Recollections and Reflections: An Auto of Half a Century and More, by Wharton J. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)
- Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route For a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, by United States War Department (page images at MOA)
- Tales of Lonely Trails, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
- The Trek of the Seven Sisters, by Monica Corrigan (illustrated HTML and PDF at Arizona)
- A Woman Tenderfoot (Toronto: G.N. Morang, 1900), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, illust. by Ernest Thompson Seton, G. Wright, E. M. Ashe, and S. N. Abbott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Woman Tenderfoot (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1900), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, illust. by Ernest Thompson Seton, G. Wright, E. M. Ashe, and S. N. Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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