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Jim Bridger, American Frontiersman (Chicago: A. Whitman, c1952), by Sanford Tousey (page images at HathiTrust)
The Border Watch: A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand, by Joseph A. Altsheler (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
The Eyes of the Woods: A Story of the Ancient Wilderness (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1905), by Joseph A. Altsheler, illust. by D. C. Hutchison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon: or, A Search for Treasure (New York: A. L. Chatterton Co., c1908), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Sascha Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon: or, A Search for Treasure (Cleveland: A. Westbrook Co., c1908), by Wyn Roosevelt (Gutenberg text)
The Frontier Boys in the Sierras: or, The Lost Mine (New York: Hurst and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Sascha Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
The Frontier Boys in the Sierras: or, The Lost Mine (New York: A. L. Chatterton and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Sascha Schneider (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Ned in the Block-House: A Tale of Early Days in the West (Philadelphia: H. T. Coates and Co., c1883), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Rival Scouts: A Tale of the Last Century (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1865), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (PDF at Emory)
Silver Lake, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
Wyoming (Philadelphia: H. T. Coates and Co., c1888), by Edward Sylvester Ellis
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
The Young Trailers, by Joseph A. Altsheler (Gutenberg text)
Deerfoot on the Prairies (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., 1905), by Edward Sylvester Ellis, illust. by John Steeple Davis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Lost Child (Boston: Putnam and Hunt, Pierce and Williams, and Wait, Greene and Co., 1830), by Timothy Flint (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
Afar in the Forest, by William Henry Giles Kingston
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- PDF and other formats at archive.org
The Border Boys Across the Frontier (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1911), by Fremont B. Deering (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Young Emigrants: A Tale Designed for Young Persons (Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1830), by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick (page images at HathiTrust)
Farmer Boy (c1933), by Laura Ingalls Wilder (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
Bill Biddon, Trapper: or, Life in the Northwest (New York: Hurst and Co., c1916), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Kangaroo Hunters, or, Adventures in the Bush (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1859), by Anne Bowman (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Trapper's Son, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Sunshine and snow, by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg ebook)
Lost in the backwoods, by E. C. Kenyon, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg ebook)
Intiaanin kiitollisuus: Seikkailuja kaukaisessa lännessä (in Finnish), by Edward Sylvester Ellis, trans. by O. E. Nyman (Gutenberg ebook)
Trail and Trading Post; or, The Young Hunters of the Ohio, by Edward Stratemeyer, illust. by J. W. Kennedy (Gutenberg ebook)
A Boy's Trip Across the Plains, by Laura Preston (Gutenberg ebook)
Forest Glen; or, The Mohawk's Friendship, by Elijah Kellogg (Gutenberg ebook)
The Oxbow Wizard, by Theodore Goodridge Roberts (Gutenberg ebook)
Wolf Ear the Indian: A story of the great uprising of 1890-91, by Edward Sylvester Ellis, illust. by Alfred Pearse (Gutenberg ebook)
Virran kummitus: Kertomus intiaanimetsistä (in Finnish), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg ebook)
Snow-shoes and Sledges: A Sequel to "The Fur-Seal's Tooth", by Kirk Munroe, illust. by W. A. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
Hiking Westward: Being the Story of Two Boys Whose Ambition Led Them to Face Privations and Hardships in Their Quest of a Home in the Great West, by Roger William Conant, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (Gutenberg ebook)
The Turning of the Tide; Or, Radcliffe Rich and His Patients, by Elijah Kellogg (Gutenberg ebook)
George in Camp; or, Life on the Plains, by Harry Castlemon (Gutenberg ebook)
Lion Ben of Elm Island, by Elijah Kellogg (Gutenberg ebook)
Arthur Brown, The Young Captain, by Elijah Kellogg (Gutenberg ebook)
The Pioneer Boys of the Columbia; or, In the Wilderness of the Great Northwest, by St. George Rathborne, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
The Pioneer Boys of the Yellowstone; or, Lost in the Land of Wonders, by St. George Rathborne, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
The Pioneer Boys of the Missouri; or, In the Country of the Sioux, by St. George Rathborne, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
The Pioneer Boys of the Mississippi; or, The Homestead in the Wilderness, by St. George Rathborne, illust. by H. Richard Boehm (Gutenberg ebook)
The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes; or, On the Trail of the Iroquois, by St. George Rathborne, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (Gutenberg ebook)
The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio; or, Clearing the Wilderness, by St. George Rathborne, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (Gutenberg ebook)
Jack the Young Trapper: An Eastern Boy's Fur Hunting in the Rocky Mountains, by George Bird Grinnell, illust. by Walter King Stone (Gutenberg ebook)
Doing and Daring: A New Zealand Story, by Eleanor Stredder (Gutenberg ebook)
The Kangaroo Hunters; Or, Adventures in the Bush, by Anne Bowman (Gutenberg ebook)
The Trail of the Seneca, by James A. Braden, illust. by R. G. Vosburgh (Gutenberg ebook)
The Boy Settlers: A Story of Early Times in Kansas, by Noah Brooks, illust. by W. A. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
The Cabin on the Prairie, by C. H. Pearson (Gutenberg ebook)
Frontier sketches (New York: Carlton & Porter, 1850), by R. W. Allen, Carlton & Porter, and Lane & Scott (page images at Florida)
Story of the Moreton family (London, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1852), illust. by George S Measom (page images at Florida)
Life in the West, or, The Moreton family (Philadelphia, New York: American Sunday-School Union, c1851), ed. by American Sunday-School Union Committee of Publication, illust. by William Jay Baker (page images at Florida)
The Lonely dove of the Hurons (London, Manchester, Brighton: Religious Tract Society, 1873) (page images at Florida)
The Redfords (London et al.: Blackie & Son, 1886), by George Cupples (page images at Florida)
A Little colonial dame (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c1898), by Agnes Carr Sage, illust. by Mabel Humphrey (page images at Florida)
The happy family, or, Scenes of American life (Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt, 1853), by William S Cardell (page images at Florida)
The desert home, or, The adventures of a lost family in the wilderness (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852), by Mayne Reid, illust. by William Harvey and Dalziel Brothers (page images at Florida)
The child of providence, or, Arthur Montrose (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, n.d.) (page images at Florida)
The children on the plains (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1880), by Sarah S Baker (page images at Florida)
Fir boughs (Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society, 1889), by Willis Boyd Allen (page images at Florida)
Tecumseh's young braves (Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, n.d.), by Everett T Tomlinson (page images at Florida)
The young ditch rider (Elgin Ill, Chicago: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1899), by John Harvey Whitson (page images at Florida)
French and English (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, n.d.), by Evelyn Everett-Green (page images at Florida)
The pilot of the Mayflower (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898), by Hezekiah Butterworth and D. Appleton and Company (page images at Florida)

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