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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)
• Richard H. Kern : expeditionary artist in the far Southwest, 1848-1853 (Published for the Amon Carter Museum by the University of New Mexico Press, 1985), by David J. Weber, Richard H. Kern, and Amon Carter Museum of Western Art (page images at HathiTrust)
• My attainment of the Pole : being the record of the expedition that first reached the boreal center, 1907-1909, with the final summary of the polar controversy (Polar Pub. Co., 1911), by Frederick Albert Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• My attainment of the Pole : being the record of the expedition that first reached the boreal center, 1907-1909 : with the final summary of the polar controversy (Mitchell Kennerley, 1913), by Frederick Albert Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The love-life of Dr. Kane: containing the correspondence, and a history of the acquaintance, engagement, and secret marriage between Elisha K. Kane and Margaret Fox. (Carleton, 1866), by Margaret Fox and Elisha Kent Kane (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)
• Godfrey's narrative of the last Grinnell Arctic Exploring Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853-4-5 : with a biography of Dr. Elisha K. Kane, from the cradle to the grave (J. T. Lloyd, 1857), by Wm. C. Godfrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of John Ledyard. (J.C. Hinrichssche, 1829), by Jared Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Fremont (Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Charles Wentworth Upham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and his narrative of explorations and adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California : the memoir (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by John Charles Frémont and Samuel M. Smucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the life and public services of John Charles Fremont including an account of his explorations, descoveries and adventures on five successive expeditions across the North American continent; voluminous selections from his private and public correspondence; his defence before the Court Martial, and full reports of his principal speeches in the Senate of the United States (Derby & Jackson;, 1856), by John Bigelow (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, 1858), by Samuel M. Smucker (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 (G.G. Evans, 1858), by Samuel M. Smucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man with the iron hand : Chevalier Henry de Tonty's exploits in the valley of the Mississippi ([H.E. Legler], 1896), by Henry Eduard Legler and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arctic explorations : the second and last United States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin (American Pub. Co., 1881), by Elisha Kent Kane and Charles W. Shields (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vilhjálmur Stefánsson (Bókaverslun Þorst. M. Jónssonar, 1927), by Guðmundur Finnbogason and Fiske Icelandic Collection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pioneers of the Rocky Mountains and the West (Macmillan, 1906), by Charles A. McMurry (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
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, page images, and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The mountain hero [Ethan Allen] and his associates. (Dayton & Wentworth, 1855), by Henry W. De Puy (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)

• 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)

• De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo : explorers of the northern mystery (Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior :, 1992), by David Lavender and United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo: Explorers of the Northern Mystery, by David Lavender (Gutenberg ebook)

• Major Long's second expedition (H.C. Carey & I. Lea ..., 1824), by William Hypolitus Keating, Joseph Lovell, James E. Colhoun, Lewis David von Schweinitz, Thomas Say, and Stephen H. Long (page images at HathiTrust)

• Headwaters of the Mississippi comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca (Rand, McNally, 1895), by Willard Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Glazier and his lake an inquiry into the history and progress of exploration at the head-waters of the Mississippi since the discovery of Lake Itasca (Ivison, Blakeman, 1886), by Henry D. Harrower and Willard Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spanish frontier in Colorado and New Mexico, 1540-1821 (Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office, 1989), by Frederic J. Athearn and United States. Bureau of Land Management. Colorado State Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Death of De Soto (s.n., 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spanish frontier in Colorado and New Mexico, 1540-1821 (Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office, 1989), by Frederic J. Athearn and United States. Bureau of Land Management. Colorado State Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reisen nach der nordwestlichen Küste von Amerika von den Kapitainen Meares, Dixon, Portlak u.a. : ein Auszug aus der grösseren Sammlung dieser Reisen für Liebhaber und Lesekabinette. (Bei Erns Christoph Grattenauer, 1795) (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Back trailing in the heart of the short grass country (s. n., 1956), by John O. Bye (page images at HathiTrust)

• American heroes from history (A. Flanagan Co., 1913), by Inez N. McFee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Great captains of the United States Navy (DeWolfe, Fiske, 1902), by Fiske & Co DeWolfe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heroines of service : Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams (New York, [NY] : Century Co., 1917., 1917), by Mary Rosetta Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Catholic pioneers of America (Philadelphia : H.I. Kilner, [1882], 1882), by John O'Kane Murray (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pioneer history stories for third and fourth grades. First series (Jones & Kroeger, 1891), by Charles A. McMurry (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
• Samuel de Champlain, a short sketch (Fergus printing company, 1885), by Henry Higgins Hurlbut (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of John Macoun, M.A. : Canadian explorer and naturalist : assistant director and naturalist to the Geological Survey of Canada, 1831-1920 (Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, 1922), by John Macoun, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• The founder of New France : a chronicle of Champlain (Glasgow, Brook, 1920), by Charles W. Colby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pathfinders of the great plains : a chronicle of La Vérendrye and his sons (Glasgow, Brook, 1920), by Lawrence J. Burpee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Samuel de Champlain a brief sketch of the eminent navigator and discoverer : read before the Chicago Historical Society, Tuesday evening, October 20, 1885 (s.n.], 1885), by Henry H. Hurlbut (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief narrative of the journeys of David Thompson, in north-western America (s.n.], 1888), by J. B. Tyrrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• D'Iberville ou Le Jean-Bart du Canada (s.n., 1868), by François Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mariner of St. Malo a chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier (Glasgow, Brook, 1914), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jacques Cartier : découvreur du Canada ([Montréal] : [publisher not identified], [1919], 1919), by frère Méthodius, Nap. Savard, and Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve : fondateur de Montréal ([Montréal] : [publisher not identified], [1919], 1919), by Victor Morin, J.-B. Lagacé, and Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Louis Hébert : le premier colon canadien ([Montréal] : [publisher not identified], [1919], 1919), by A. Couillard Després, Onésime-Aimé Léger, and Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Vérendrye : découvreur du Nord-Ouest canadien ([Montréal] : [publisher not identified], [1919], 1919), by L. A. Prud'homme, Onésime-Aimé Léger, and Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Samuel de Champlain ([Montréal] : [publisher not identified], [1919], 1919), by Alexandre Dugré, J. McIsaac, and Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Robert Giffard : le type du seigneur colonisateur ([Montréal] : [publisher not identified], [1919], 1919), by Ivanhoë Caron, A.-S. Brodeur, and Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lambert Closse ([Montréal] : [publisher not identified], [1919], 1919), by E.-Z. Massicotte, Onésime-Aimé Léger, and Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nouveaux voyages de Mr le baron de Lahontan (Chez les fréres l'Honoré, 1703), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveaux voyages de Mr le baron de Lahontan (Chez les fréres l'Honoré, Marchands Libraries, 1703), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages du baron de La Hontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale (Chez François L'Honoré, 1728), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages du baron de La Hontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale (Chez François L'Honoré, 1728), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages du baron de La Hontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale (Chez Charles Delo, sur le Singel, 1706), by baron de Lahontan and Nicolas Gueudeville (page images at HathiTrust)

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