Carson, Kit, 1809-1868
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Kit Carson's Autobiography (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1935), by Kit Carson, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)- Kit Carson's Fight with the Comanche and Kiowa Indians, at the Adobe Walls on the Canadian River, November 25th, 1864 (Personal narratives of the Battles of the Rebellion #5; Providence, RI: S. S. Rider, 1878), by George H. Pettis
- Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson, by John S. C. Abbott (page images at MOA)
- 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)
- Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains: or, The Last Voice From the Plains, by William F. Drannan (Gutenberg text)
- 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: Scouts (Reconnaissance) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography- Kit Carson's Autobiography (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1935), by Kit Carson, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879), by Buffalo Bill (page images at LOC)
- Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains: or, The Last Voice From the Plains, by William F. Drannan (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel, U.S.A., by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)
- Buffalo Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody) and His Wild West Companions, Including Wild Bill, Texas Jack, California Joe, Capt. Jack Crawford, and Other Famous Scouts of the Western Plains (Chicago: The Hennebery Co., ca. 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Buffalo Bill's Own Story of His Life and Deeds: This Autobiography Tells in His Own Graphic Words the Wonderful Story of His Heroic Career (memorial edition; c1917), by Buffalo Bill, contrib. by William Lightfoot Visscher (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879), by Buffalo Bill (page images at LOC)
- Memories of Buffalo Bill (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1919), by Louisa Frederici Cody and Courtney Ryley Cooper
- 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)
- 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 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)
- Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
- The Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill" (1917 edition), by Buffalo Bill (HTML at PBS)
- 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)
- Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood (Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, vol. 1, #1; c1881), by Prentiss Ingraham
- Buffalo Bill and His Adventures in the West (New York: J. S. Ogilvie and Co., c1886), by Ned Buntline (page images at HathiTrust)
- Buffalo Bill Entrapped: or, A Close Call (New York: Street and Smith, c1915), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text)
- Buffalo Bill, the Border King: or, Redskin and Cowboy (Buffalo Bill Border Stories #1; New York: Street and Smith, c1907), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Buffalo Bill's Boy Bugler: or, The Last of the Indian Ring (Great Western Library #141; New York: Street and Smith, c1909), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Buffalo Bill's Death Call: or, On a Red Trail (New York: Street and Smith, c1907), by Prentiss Ingraham
- Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer: or, The Stranger in Camp (New York: Street and Smith, c1908), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text)
- Buffalo Bill, The Buckskin King: or, The Amazon of the West (originally published 1890; Charles Bragin's Dime Novel Club reprint, ca. 1945), by Prentiss Ingraham (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Catalog of Dime Novel Material, Including a Section on Buffalo Bill (Red Bank, NJ: J.A. Hayes, 1936), by John Alexander Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- 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)
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