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• Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c2016), by Jason Pierce
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• The Mormon Trail: Yesterday and Today (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), by William E. Hill (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• All the Western States and Territories, by John Warner Barber and Henry Howe (page images at MOA)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Rise of the New West, by Frederick Jackson Turner (Gutenberg text)
• The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone; Crockett; Carson (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Back-Trailing on the Old Frontiers (Great Falls, MT: Cheely-Raban Syndicate, 1922), illust. by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924), by Frederic L. Paxson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West, by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text)
• Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures, or, Life in the West, by John C. Van Tramp (page images at MOA)
• 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)

• Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, by Solomon Nunes Carvalho
  • HTML at jewish-history.com
  • page images at MOA
• A Pioneer's Search For an Ideal Home: A Book of Personal Memoirs, by Phoebe Goodell Judson (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
• An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
• An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859, by Horace Greeley (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)
• A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 (London: G. Tucker, ca. 1888), by Rose Pender (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles (Chicago: Werner, 1896), by Nelson Appleton Miles (page images at Wisconsin)
• 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)
• 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)
• Our New West, by Samuel Bowles (HTML at LOC)
• An Army Wife on the Frontier: The Memoirs of Alice Blackwood Baldwin, 1867-1877, by Alice Blackwood Baldwin, ed. by Robert C. Carriker and Eleanor R. Carriker (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)
• California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, by Mrs. Frank Leslie, contrib. by Madeleine B. Stern (PDF at LOC)
• 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)
• Westward by Rail: The New Route to the East, by W. Fraser Rae (page images at MOA)

• Tales of Lonely Trails, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

• Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c2016), by Jason Pierce
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c2016), by Jason Pierce
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Kansas in the Sixties (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1911), by S. J. Crawford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Cactus and Rattlers (originally published in Blue Book magazine, January 1924), by H. Bedford-Jones (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)

• Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Historical Sketches and Daily Review (souvenir booklet; ca. 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Historical Sketches and Programme (souvenir program; 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Brand Book (Denver Posse of Westerners) (partial serial archives)
• Brand Book (Los Angeles Corral of Westerners) (partial serial archives)
• Montana: The Magazine of Western History (partial serial archives)
• The Montana Magazine of History (full serial archives)

• The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912 (4 parts in 7 volumes; Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1993-2007), by Robert M. Kvasnicka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co. c1920), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oregon, or A Short History of a Long Journey, by John B. Wyeth (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)
• Life in the Far West (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849), by George Frederick Ruxton (page images in Germany)
• 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)
• 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• 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)
• Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper, 1831-1836, by Zenas Leonard (HTML at xmission.com)
• Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com
• 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)
• A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1839, by F. A. Wislizenus (illustrated HTML at xmission.com)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)

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