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• The way to the West, and the lives of three early Americans, Boone, Crockett, Carson (Grosset & Dunlap, 1903), by Emerson Hough and Frederic Remington (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life and my lectures (The Neale Publishing Company, 1908), by Lamar Fontaine and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The pathbreakers from river to ocean; the story of the great West from the time of Coronado to the present (The Arthur H. Clark company, 1940), by Grace Raymond Hebard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exploration of the Colorado River (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1995), by Mary C. Rabbitt and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, and of other distinguished American explorers: containing narratives of their researches and adventures in remote and interesting portions of the globe. (J.W. Bradley, 1859), by Samuel M. Smucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pathbreakers from river to ocean; the story of the great West from the time of Coronado to the present (Lakeside Press, 1911), by Grace Raymond Hebard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of discovery in America (J. B. Lippincott company, 1934), by Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of my life : including in the narrative five journeys of western exploration during the years 1842, 1843-4, 1845-6-7, 1848-9, 1853-4 / by John Charles Frémont. Together with a sketch of the life of Senator Benton, in connection with western expansion / by Jessie Benton Frémont (Belford, Clarke, 1887), by J. C. Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jonathan Carver his travels in the Northwest in 1766-8. (s.n., 1896), by John Goadby Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of great American explorers & pioneers (Chicago : Rand McNally, [1941], 1941), by William H. Mace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mound Builders, Indians, and Pioneers (Parkersburg, WV: Printed by the Scholl Printing Co., c1956), by William B. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of Peter Cartwright, the Backwoods Preacher (New York: Carlton and Porter, 1857), by Peter Cartwright, ed. by W. P. Strickland (page images at MOA)
• Echoes from a Pioneer Life (Atlanta: A. B. Caldwell, 1922), by Jared Maurice Arter (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians from Its Commencement in the Year 1740 to the Close of the Year 1808 (Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1907), by John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder, ed. by William Elsey Connelley (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
• Woman on the American Frontier (Hartford: S.S. Scranton and Co., 1879), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at MOA)
• Woman on the American Frontier (Hartford: S.S. Scranton, 1881), by William Worthington Fowler
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• Thirty Thousand Miles With John Heckewelder (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1958), by John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder, ed. by Paul A. W. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920), by Frederick Jackson Turner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1921), by Frederick Jackson Turner (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899), by Charles C. Royce, contrib. by Cyrus Thomas (PDF at MSU)
• Eunice Tripler: Some Notes of Her Personal Recollections (New York: The Grafton Press, 1910), by Eunice Tripler, ed. by Louis A. Arthur
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• Delineations of American scenery and character. (Baker, 1926), by John James Audubon and Francis Hobart Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier. A valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "Pioneer mothers of the republic." (S. S. Scranton & company, 1877), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the trail of the pioneers, romance, tragedy and triumph of the path of empire (George H. Doran company, 1920), by John T. Faris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guarding the frontier; a study of frontier defense from 1815 to 1825 (The University of Minnesota press, 1935), by Edgar Bruce Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lure of the frontier; a story of race conflict (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1929), by Ralph Henry Gabriel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toilers of land and sea (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1926), by Ralph Henry Gabriel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts; the romance of American history, thrilling narratives of renowned adventurers, explorers, heroes, trappers, scouts and Indian fighters, Boone, Brady, Bridger, Buffalo Bill ... McCullough, Reynolds, Texas Jack, Wild Bill, etc., and General Custer against Sitting Bull, General Crook against the Apaches (W. Abbatt, 1926), by E. G. Cattermole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rifle, axe, and saddle-bags, and other lectures. (Derby & Jackson;, 1857), by William Henry Milburn and John McClintock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frontiers and the fur trade (John Day company, 1929), by Sydney Greenbie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of travel in America, being an outline of the development in modes of travel from archaic vehicles of colonial times to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad: the influence of the Indians on the free movement and territorial unity of the white race: the part played by travel methods in the economic conquest of the continent: and those related human experiences, changing social conditions and governmental attitudes which accompanied the growth of a national travel system (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915), by Seymour Dunbar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rediscovery of the frontier (University of Chicago Press, 1931), by Percy Holmes Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The frontier in American literature. (F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1961), by Lucy Lockwood Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of travel in America, showing the development of travel and transportation from the crude methods of the canoe and the dog-sled to the highly organized railway systems of the present, together with a narrative of the human experiences and changing social conditions that accompanied this economic conquest of the continent (Bobbs-Merrill company, 1915), by Seymour Dunbar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of Peter Cartwright : the backwoods preacher (Carlton & Porter, 1857), by Peter Cartwright and W. P. Strickland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iowa pioneer foundations (State Historical Society of Iowa, 1940), by George F. Parker, Jacob Armstrong Swisher, and State Historical Society of Iowa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cowman's Southwest : being the reminiscences of Oliver Nelson, freighter, camp cook, cowboy, frontiersman in Kansas, Indian Territory, Texas, and Oklahoma, 1878-1893 (A. H. Clark Co., 1953), by Oliver Nelson and Angie Debo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bush and backwoods; a comparison of the frontier in Australia and the United States. (Michigan State University Press, 1959), by H. C. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frontier in American literature. (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1927), by Lucy Lockwood Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Congregationalists, a collection of source materials (The University of Chicago Press, 1939), by William Warren Sweet (page images at HathiTrust)
• A forgotten heritage. (Standard printing & publishing company, 1941), by Harry P. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the wild West and camp-fire chats, by Buffalo Bill, (Hon. W. F. Cody.) A full and complete history of the renowned pioneer quartette, Boone, Crockett, Carson and Buffalo Bill ... Including a description of Buffalo Bill's conquests in England with his Wild West exhibition ... (R.S. Peale & company, 1888), by Buffalo Bill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prairie and overland traveller; a companion for emigrants, traders, travellers, hunters, and soldiers traversing great plains and prairies (S. Low, son, and co., 1860), by Randolph B. Marcy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The march of empire; frontier defense in the Southwest, 1848-1860. (University of Kansas Press, 1952), by Averam B. Bender (page images at HathiTrust)
• Solon Robinson, pioneer and agriculturist; selected writings. 1 (Indiana Historical Bureau, 1936), by Solon Robinson and Herbert Anthony Kellar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Palmer letters; a picture of pioneer life as revealed chiefly in the letters of the three sons of Joseph Palmer. ([Honolulu], 1963), by Louisa Fidelia Palmer, Joseph Palmer, Harry Miner Palmer, David Wheeler Palmer, and Russell Denison Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of travel in America, being an outline of the development in modes of travel from archaic vehicles of colonial times to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad: the influence of the Indians on the free movement and territorial unity of the white race: the part played by travel methods in the economic conquest of the continent: and those related human experiences, changing social conditions and governmental attitudes which accompanied the growth of a national travel system (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915), by Seymour Dunbar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The back-woodsmen : or, Tales of the borders : a collection of historical and authentic accounts of early adventure among the Indians (Jones Bros., 1883), by Walter Whipple Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer (Printed by the Henneberry Company, 1913), by A. S. Mercer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others ... (J.E. Potter, 1862), by Warren Wildwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Westward; the romance of the American frontier (Appleton, 1930), by Edward Douglas Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Following the frontier; stories of the westward movement (The Macmillan company, 1924), by William Lewis Nida (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boys' book of frontier fighters (G. W. Jacobs & company, 1919), by Edwin L. Sabin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• With pack and saddle; famous American frontier stories (Milton Bradley, 1930), by Lawton B. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous scouts, including trappers, pioneers, and soldiers of the frontier : their hazardous and exciting adventures in the mighty drama of the white conquest of the American continent (Page Co., 1910), by Charles H. L. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The frontier trail; the story of an American pioneer family. (Exposition Press, 1960), by W. Raymond Cheek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pioneer days (Duffield and company, 1917), by Mary H. Carmichael (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer life in the West : comprising the adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Clarke, the Whetzels, and others, in their fierce encounters with the Indians. (Keystone Publishing Co., 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches, biographical and incidental. (Hitchcock & Walden, 1868), by E. Thomson and D. W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of pioneer life for little folks. (A. Flanagan company, 1904), by Cora Luetta Livingstone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous scouts, including trappers, pioneers, and soldiers of the frontier; their hazardous and exciting adventures in the mighty drama of the white conquest of the American continent (L. C. Page & Company, 1910), by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guarding the frontier; a study of frontier defense from 1815 to 1825 (The University of Minnesota press, 1935), by Edgar Bruce Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts; the vanguards of American civilization ... including Boone, Crawford, Girty, Molly Finney, the McCulloughs ... Captain Jack, Buffalo Bill, General Custer with his last campaiggn against Sitting Bull, and General Crook with his recent campaign against the Apaches. (M. A. Donohue & company, 1880), by E. G. Cattermole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others ... (J.C. Potter, 1861), by Warren Wildwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous scouts, including trappers, pioneers, and soldiers of the frontier; their hazardous and exciting adventures in the mighty drama of the white conquest of the American continent (L.C. Page & Company, 1911), by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daring and heroic deeds of American women : comprising thrilling examples of courage, fortitude, devotedness, and self-sacrifice among the pioneer mothers of the western country (G.G. Evans, 1860), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desparate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others ... (The Keystone Pub. Co., 1890), by Warren Wildwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The transcontinental trails. ([New York], 1912), by George Frederick Kunz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rifle, axe, and saddle-bags (Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1860), by William Henry Milburn and Thomas Binney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trappers of Arkansas: a tale of the royal heart. (Ward, Lock, 1800), by Gustave Aimard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bee hunters; a tale of adventure. (J.A. Berger, 1868), by Gustave Aimard and Lascelles Wraxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Border Rifles: a story of the Texan war. (Ward, Lock and Tyler, 1879), by Gustave Aimard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The insurgent chief. (J.A. Berger, in the 1860s), by Gustave Aimard and Lascelles Wraxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pirates of the prairies: adventures in the American desert (Ward and Lock, 1862), by Gustave Aimard and Lascelles Wraxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the Ohio and Mississippi (Prepared by the staff of the Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, 1955), by John Thomson Faris and Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of travel in America, being an outline of the development in modes of travel from archaic vehicles of colonial times to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad: the influence of the Indians on the free movement and territorial unity of the white race: the part played by travel methods in the economic conquest of the continent: and those related human experiences, changing social conditions and governmental attitudes which accompanied the growth of a national travel system (Tudor publishing company, 1937), by Seymour Dunbar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroic women of the West: comprising thrilling examples of courage, fortitude, devotedness, and self-sacrifice, among the pioneer mothers of the western country (A. Hart, 1854), by John Frost and A. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts : the romance of American civilization ... a thrilling narrative of the lives and marvelous exploits of the most renowned heroes, trappers, explorers, explorers, adventurers, scouts, and Indian fighters, Boone ... [et al.] ... (Donohue, Henneberry, 1890), by E. G. Cattermole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts; the vanguards of American civilization ... including Boone, Crawford, Girty, Molly Finney, the McCulloughs ... Captain Jack, Buffalo Bill, General Custer with his last campaign against Sitting Bull, and General Crook with his recent campaign against the Apaches. (Coburn & Newman, 1883), by E. G. Cattermole (page images at HathiTrust)
• How the West has moved on: an address, delivered at Lincoln, September 27, 1877, during the Nebraska state fair, and upon the invitation of the State Board of Agriculture (Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, 1877), by Rodney Welch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian tales for boys = or The back-woodsman and true stories of the frontier (W. H. Ferguson Company, 1883), by Walter Whipple Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eunice Tripler : some notes of her personal recollections. (Grafton Press, 1910), by Eunice Tripler and Louis A. Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rifle, axe, and saddle-bags, and other lectures. (Derby & Jackson;, 1857), by William Henry Milburn and John McClintock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of pioneer life, for young readers (D.C. Heath & Co., 1900), by Florence Bass (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier. A valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "Pioneer mothers of the republic." (S.S. Scranton & company, 1879), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gambler's wife; the life of Malinda Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933), by Malinda Jenkins and Jesse Lilienthal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thrilling adventures among the early settlers : embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees, daring exploits of Texan rangers and others, and incidents of guerilla warfare, fearful deeds of the gamblers and desperadoes, rangers and regulators of the West and Southwest, hunting stories, trapping adventures, etc., etc., etc. (J. Edwin Potter, 1866), by Warren Wildwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier : a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the republic". (S.S. Scranton, 1883), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daring and heroic deeds of American women : comprising thrilling examples of courage, fortitude, devotedness, and self-sacrifice among the pioneer mothers of the western country (G.G. Evans, 1860), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches, biographical and incidental. (Published by L. Swormstedt & A. Poe for the Methodist Episcopal church, 1857), by Edward Thomson and D. W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rifle, axe, and saddle-bags : and other lectures (S. Low, 1857), by William Henry Milburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the frontier (S. S. Scranton, 1877), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the wild West and camp-fire chats (Historical publishing co., 1888), by Buffalo Bill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scénes de la nature dans les États-Unis et le nord de l'Amérique (A. Sauton, libraire-éditeur ..., 1868), by John James Audubon and Eugéne Bazin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The men of the backwoods true stories and sketches of the Indians and the Indian fighters (G. Farran, 1899), by Ascott R. Hope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the wigwam (Derby, Miller, 1850), by Samuel G. Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the republic" (S.S. Scranton, 1881), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of the North American Indians, and adventures of the early settlers in America (Jarrold, 1853), by Barbara Hawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Incidents and events in the life of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard (s.n., 1888), by Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard and Henry E. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the frontier. (S. S. Scranton, 1886), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier : a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "Pioneer mothers of the republic." (S. S. Scranton & Co., 1881), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the wild West and camp-fire chats. (Historical Publishing Co., 1888), by Buffalo Bill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of Peter Cartwright, the backwoods preacher (Hitchcock & Walden ;, 1856), by Peter Cartwright and W. P. Strickland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer life and frontier adventures : an authentic record of the romantic life and daring exploits of Kit Carson and his companions : from his own narrative (F. Warne & Co., 1888), by De Witt C. Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
• The recession of the frontier ([Lincoln, Neb.], 1924), by Hallie Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The back-woodsmen ; or, Tales of the borders; a collection of historical and authentic accounts of early adventure among the Indians. (W. E. Dibble & co., 1883), by Walter Whipple Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the wild West and camp-fire chats. (Waverly publishing co., 1888), by Buffalo Bill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The significance of the frontier in American history (1894), by Frederick Jackson Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wild men of the wild West. (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1929), by Edwin L. Sabin (page images at HathiTrust)
• They rode the frontier. (Watts, 1959), by Wyatt Blassingame (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pioneers of the West : a fifth grade unit (Office of Curriculum Development, 1947), by Long Beach City Schools and Anastasia Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories of pioneer life for young readers (D. C. Heath and company, 1928), by Florence Bass (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier; a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the Republic.". (S. S. Scranton, 1883), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman on the American frontier : a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "pioneer mothers of the Republic" (S.S. Scranton, 1878), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years as a presiding elder (Jennings & Graham, 1871), by Peter Cartwright and W. S. Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous scouts, including trappers, pioneers, and soldiers of the frontier; their hazardous and exciting adventures in the mighty drama of the white conquest of the American continent (L. C. Page & Company, 1910), by Charles H. L. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toilers of land and sea (United States Publishers Association, 1926), by Ralph Henry Gabriel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer women of America : A valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the mothers of the republic (S. S. Scranton, 1896), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Soldier's Life on the Western Frontier in 1813, by Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown, by James S. Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frontier Folk, by George Booth (Gutenberg ebook)

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