Explorers -- United States -- Biography
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Antarctic Comrades: An American With the Russians in Antarctica (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Gilbert Dewart (PDF at Ohio State)- Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U.S. Navy, 1798-1877 (Washington: Naval History Division, Dept. of the Navy, 1978), by Charles Wilkes, ed. by William James Morgan, David Budlong Tyler, Joye L. Leonhart, and Mary F. Loughlin, contrib. by John D. H. Kane (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington
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Filed under: Explorers -- United States -- Diaries- To the Pole: The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard Evelyn Byrd, ed. by Raimund E. Goerler (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- For the Recognition of Matthew A. Hensen: Hearing Before the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12388, a Bill To Provide for the Recognition Of The Heroic Conduct and Devotion To Duty of Matthew A. Hensen, One of the Survivors of the Polar Expedition of Admiral Peary, and To Provide a Life Pension for the Said Matthew A. Hensen; May 22, 1936 (Washington: GPO, 1936), by United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington
- Antarctic Comrades: An American With the Russians in Antarctica (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Gilbert Dewart (PDF at Ohio State)
- Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U.S. Navy, 1798-1877 (Washington: Naval History Division, Dept. of the Navy, 1978), by Charles Wilkes, ed. by William James Morgan, David Budlong Tyler, Joye L. Leonhart, and Mary F. Loughlin, contrib. by John D. H. Kane (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v3-5; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
- Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at ibiblio.org)
- A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
- A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
- The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)
- The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
- The Lure of the Labrador Wild: The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., by Dillon Wallace (Gutenberg text)
- The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
- Laperouse, by Ernest Scott
- Caesars of the Wilderness: Médard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1943), by Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons (in French; Paris: D. Moreau, 1632), by Gabriel Sagard (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by P. J. Capelotti (PDF at University of Calgary)
- The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Isabel Burton
- The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg text)
- The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton (London: H. S. Nichols, 1896), by Georgiana M. Stisted (multiple formats at archive.org)
- John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America and Sebastian, His Son: A Chapter of the Maritime History of England Under the Tudors, 1496-1557 (London: Stevens, 1896), by Henry Harrisse (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
- A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
- The Life of Captain James Cook (Basel, Switzerland: Printed by J.J. Tourneisen, 1788), by Andrew Kippis
- A Discourse in Commendation of the Valiant as Vertuous Minded Gentleman, Maister Frauncis Drake, With a Reioysing of His Happy Aduentures (1581), by Nicholas Breton (page images at LOC)
- The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)
- Simon Fraser (Toronto: Ryerson Press, ca. 1928), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton, illust. by Charles W. Jefferys (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Who's Who in Pacific Navigation (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), by John Dunmore (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)
- The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v3-5; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
- Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at ibiblio.org)
- Vdol' Poli︠a︡rnykh Okrainʺ Rossīi: Puteshestvīe Nordenshel'da Vokrug Evropy i Azīi v' 1878-1880 g. (in Russian; St. Petersburg: K. Birkenfeld, 1898), by Ė. Granstrem (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- 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)
- Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
- Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
- The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe
- Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
- Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
- Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
- Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
- Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
- The Republican Court: or, American Society in the Days of Washington (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
- Something of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
- The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
- Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
- The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
- The Life of Jacob Persinger, Who Was Taken by the Shawnee Indians When An Infant; With a Short Account of the Indian Troubles in Missouri, and a Sketch of the Adventures of the Author (reprint; originally published 1861), by Joseph Persinger (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
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