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• Frontier and pioneer life -- Juvenile fiction
• Texas -- Juvenile fiction

• Across Texas (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1894), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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• The Early Settlers Life in Texas (reprint; ca. 1963), by A. Y. Kirkpatrick (page images at Portal to Texss History)
• The Early Settlers Life in Texas, and the Organization of Hill County (ca. 1909), by A. Y. Kirkpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philip of Texas: A Story of Sheep Raising in Texas (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1916), by James Otis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
• A Texas Cowboy: or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (with bibliograpical study; New York: W. Sloane Associates, c1950), by Charles A. Siringo, contrib. by J. Frank Dobie, illust. by Tom Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Border With Mackenzie: or, Winning West Texas From the Comanches (1935 book reprinted with new foreword by Dykes; New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961), by Robert Goldthwaite Carter, contrib. by Jeff Dykes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, the Texas Ranger and Hunter (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by John C. Duval (page images at MOA)
• The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Gammel Book Co., c1900), by Noah Smithwick, ed. by Nanna Smithwick Donaldson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indian Depredations in Texas: Reliable Accounts of Battles, Wars, Adventures, Forays, Murders, Massacres. etc., etc., Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of the Most Noted Indian Fighters and Frontiersmen of Texas (second edition; Austin, TX: Hutchings Printing House, 1890), by J. W. Wilbarger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Journey Through Texas: or, A Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier, by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• The Life of John Wesley Hardin, From the Original Manuscript, As Written by Himself (Seguin, TX: Smith and Moore, 1896), by John Wesley Hardin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Texas Cow Boy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Chicago: M. Umbdenstock and Co., 1885), by Charles A. Siringo
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Texas Cow Boy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Chicago: Siringo and Dobson, 1886), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Trail Drivers of Texas (second edition revised, 2 volumes in 1; Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1925), ed. by J. Marvin Hunter, contrib. by George W. Saunders (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Horrors of Indian Captivity: Authentic and Thrilling Sketches of Tragedies That Occurred on the Texas Frontier During Indian Times (Bandera, TX: Published for Frontier Times Museum by the Bandera Bulletin, c1954), by J. Marvin Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Following the Drum (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1864), by Teresa Griffin Vielé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of the Texian Expedition Against Mier, by Thomas J. Green, ed. by Sam W. Haynes (illustrated HTML at smu.edu)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Andele, or, the Mexican-Kiowa Captive: A Story of Real Life Among the Indians (second edition; Louisville, KY: Pentecostal Herald Press, 1899), by J. J. Methvin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Seth Jones: or, The Captives of the Frontier (New York and London: Beadle and Co., c1860), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Charlie to the Rescue: A Tale of the Sea and the Rockies, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Charlie to the Rescue: A Tale of the Sea and the Rockies (New York: T. Nelson, 1890), by R. M. Ballantyne (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Frontier Boys on the Coast: or, In the Pirate's Power (New York: Hurst and Co., c1909), by Wyn Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1926), by Helen Hunt Jackson, illust. by Harriet Roosevelt Richards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Shadow Over Winding Ranch (New York: Random House, c1940), by Sarah Lindsay Schmidt, illust. by Rafaello Busoni (page images at HathiTrust)

• Judith Lankester (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1930), by Marjorie Hill Allee, illust. by Hattie Longstreet Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom Andy Bill: A Story of Bears and Indian Treasure (New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Charles Major, illust. by P. V. E. Ivory (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Bears of Blue River (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1901), by Charles Major (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Bears of Blue River (New York and London: Macmillan, 1908), by Charles Major, illust. by A. B. Frost (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blazing Arrow: A Tale of the Frontier (Philadelphia: H. T. Coates and Co., 1900), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy Hunters of Kentucky (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1889), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Camp-Fire and Wigwam (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1885), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Silver Canyon, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Henri Théophile Hildibrand and Edouard Riou (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Hunter's Cabin: An Episode of the Early Settlements of Southern Ohio (New York: Beadle and Co., c1862), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Twice Bought: A Tale of the Oregon Gold Fields, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Mystery of Valentine Stanlock: or, The Secret of Crag Island (text from the serial version; illustrations from serial and book versions), by William Murray Graydon (HTML in Canada)

• The Jumping-Off Place (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930), by Marian Hurd McNeely, illust. by William Siegel (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Little House in the Big Woods (c1932), by Laura Ingalls Wilder, illust. by Helen Sewell (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges (1904), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)
• New Land (New York: Junior Literary Guild and R. M. McBride and Co., 1933), by Sarah Lindsay Schmidt, illust. by Frank Dobias (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• 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)
• Jim Bridger, American Frontiersman (Chicago: A. Whitman, c1952), by Sanford Tousey (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

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