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• Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
• Ontario -- Fiction

• Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains (London: A. Hall, Virtue, 1852), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill, ed. by Agnes Strickland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Duck Lake: Stories of the Canadian Backwoods, by Egerton Ryerson Young (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How Hartman Won: A Story of Old Ontario (published under "Eric Bohn" pseudonym; Toronto: G. N. Morang and Co., 1903), by John Price-Brown (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001), by R. Alan Douglas
  • multiple formats with commentary at Wayne Open
  • illustrated PDF files at Project MUSE
• Crazy-White-Man (Sha-ga-na-she Wa-du-kee) (Chicago et al.: Rand McNally, c1952), by Richard Morenus, illust. by William Lackey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago: Personal Recollections and Reminiscences of a Sexagenarian (Toronto: Hunter, Rose, c1885), by Canniff Haight
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West, Or, The Experience of an Early Settler (London: R. Bentley, 1853), by Samuel Strickland, ed. by Agnes Strickland
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad: or, How to Succeed (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1900), by W. A. MacKay
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters From the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America (London: C. Knight, 1836), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the Last Fifty Years: An Autobiography (Toronto: Hunter, Rose and Co., 1884), by Samuel Thompson (Gutenberg text)
• Roughing It in the Bush (based on the 1852 Bentley edition), by Susanna Moodie (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Roughing It in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie, ed. by Andrew Sly (Gutenberg text)
• Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada (London: R. Bentley, 1852), by Susanna Moodie
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1854), by Susanna Moodie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada (Toronto and Montreal: Hunter, Rose ;Dawson, 1871), by Susanna Moodie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches of Canadian Life, Lay and Ecclesiastical, Illustrative of Canada and the Canadian Church (London: D. Bogue, 1849), by William Stewart Darling (multiple formats at Google)

• The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot (St. Thomas, ON: Times Print., 1895), by James H. Coyne (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Shanty Sled (1925), by Hulbert Footner (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Boy in the Bush (New York: T. Seltzer, 1924), by D. H. Lawrence and M. L. Skinner (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• A Lost Lady (1923), by Willa Cather (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Backwoodsman: or, Life on the Indian Frontier (Boston: T. O. H. P. Burnham; New York: O. S. Felt, 1866), by Lascelles Wraxall, illust. by Louis Guard (multiple formats at Google)
• Gaut Gurley, or, The Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life, by Daniel P. Thompson (Gutenberg text)
• Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia, by William Gilmore Simms (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Honor of the Big Snows, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)
• The Last of the Foresters, or, Humors on the Border: A Story of the Old Virginia Frontier (1856), by John Esten Cooke (Gutenberg text)
• The Man of the Forest, by Zane Grey
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and HTML
• A New Home, Who'll Follow? or, Glimpses of Western Life, by Caroline M. Kirkland
  • HTML with commentary at dotwebb.com
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • HTML at Virginia
• The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)
• Old Caravan Days (Boston: D. Lothrop, c1884), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Riflemen of the Miami (New York and London: Beadle and Co., c1862), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Riflemen of the Ohio: A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River", by Joseph A. Altsheler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, by Joseph Furphy (Gutenberg text)
• Tales of the Austral Tropics (1894), by Ernest Favenc (PDF at SETIS)
• Three Elephant Power, and Other Stories, by A. B. Paterson
  • PDF at SETIS
  • Gutenberg text
• Wood Rangers, by Mayne Reid (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 Manifest Destiny (New York: Brentano's, 1926), by Arthur D. Howden Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frontiersmen, by Mary Noailles Murfree (Gutenberg text)
• Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush-Life, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Kuvauksia Metsäelämästä Sivistyksen Äärimmäisellä Rajalla: Eli Natty Bumpon Elämänvaiheet (in Finnish; Helsinki: G. W. Edlund, 1879), by James Fenimore Cooper, trans. by Knut Emil Sonck (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (third edition; San Francisco: F. MacCrellish, 1874), by John Rollin Ridge (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• The Pioneers (New York : Charles Wiley, 1823), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: HTML at Virginia
• The Pioneers, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, by Henry Kingsley
  • PDF at SETIS
  • Gutenberg text
• Simon Kenton, or, The Scout's Revenge: An Historical Novel (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by James Weir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Starr, of the Desert (1917), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
• The Wigwam and the Cabin (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by William Gilmore Simms
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: HTML at Virginia
• The Challenge of the North (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by James B. Hendryx (Gutenberg text)
• Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories (London: Archibald Constable and Co.; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906), by Andy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper
  • volume I: HTML at Virginia
  • volume II: HTML at Virginia
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933), by James Fenimore Cooper, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Hay-Wire (1928), by B. M. Bower (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Betty Zane, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• El Último de los Mohicanos (novel text in English, notes in Spanish; Boston et al: D.C. Heath and Co., c1915), by James Fenimore Cooper, contrib. by John G. Wight and Helen M. Parkhurst
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1913), by Alfred Henry Lewis, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Last of the Mohicans (Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1899), by James Fenimore Cooper, ed. by John G. Wight, contrib. by Helen M. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (new edition, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1854), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (new edition; New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1856), by James Fenimore Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Le Dernier des Mohicans: Le Roman de Bas-de-Cuir, by James Fenimore Cooper, trans. by A.-J.-B. Defauconpret (Gutenberg text)
• Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches, by Johnson Jones Hooper, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

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