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• Mound Builders, Indians, and Pioneers (Parkersburg, WV: Printed by the Scholl Printing Co., c1956), by William B. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of Peter Cartwright, the Backwoods Preacher (New York: Carlton and Porter, 1857), by Peter Cartwright, ed. by W. P. Strickland (page images at MOA)
• Echoes from a Pioneer Life (Atlanta: A. B. Caldwell, 1922), by Jared Maurice Arter (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians from Its Commencement in the Year 1740 to the Close of the Year 1808 (Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1907), by John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder, ed. by William Elsey Connelley (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
• Woman on the American Frontier (Hartford: S.S. Scranton and Co., 1879), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at MOA)
• Woman on the American Frontier (Hartford: S.S. Scranton, 1881), by William Worthington Fowler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920), by Frederick Jackson Turner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1921), by Frederick Jackson Turner (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899), by Charles C. Royce, contrib. by Cyrus Thomas (PDF at MSU)

• A Virginia Scout (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Hugh Pendexter, illust. by D. C. Hutchison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• Landmarks: The Lost Farm and Other Poems (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1877), by John James Piatt
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • page images at MOA

• Indian Captivities, or, Life in the Wigwam: Being True Narratives of Captives Who Have Been Carried Away by the Indians, From the Frontier Settlements of The United States, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller; Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1853), ed. by Samuel G. Drake (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Selection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives of Outrages Committed By the Indians in Their Wars With the White People: Also, an Account of Their Manners, Customs, Traditions, Religious Sentiments, Mode of Warfare, Military Tactics, Discipline and Encampments, Treatment of Prisoners, &c. (1811), by Archibald Loudon
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• 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 Woman Who Went to Alaska (Boston: James H. Earle and Co., c1902), by May Kellogg Sullivan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Sheldon Jackson, Pathfinder and Prospector of the Missionary Vanguard in the Rocky Mountains and Alaska (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by Robert Laird Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Roll Away Saloon: Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip (originally published 1979; this edition Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1985), by Rowland W. Rider, contrib. by Deirdre Paulsen (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Arizona and Sonora: The Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Region of North America, by Sylvester Mowry (page images at MOA)

• Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er: Memories Recalled Years Later for Her Daughter Correnah Wilson Wright (Mills College, CA: Eucalyptus Press, 1937), by Luzena Stanley Wilson, ed. by Correnah Wilson Wright, contrib. by Francis P. Farquhar, illust. by Kathryn Uhl
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • unillustrated transcription: PDF and XML at loc.gov
• Appreciation of Loved Ones Who Made Life Rich for Many, by Lilian A. Cross (HTML at LOC)
• The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• California, 1849-1913: or, The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in That State, by L. H. Woolley
  • HTML at LOC
  • Gutenberg text
• California All the Way Back to 1828, by Michael Claringbud White (HTML at LOC)
• From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer, by Henry Hiram Ellis (PDF at LOC)
• Gold and Sunshine: Reminiscences of Early California, by James J. Ayers (HTML at LOC)
• History of California, by Helen Elliott Bandini (Gutenberg text)
• The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern California, by Sim Moak (HTML at LOC)
• A Letter from A Gold Miner, Placerville, California, October 1850, by S. Shufelt, contrib. by Robert Glass Cleland (HTML at LOC)
• A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
• Reminiscences of a Ranger: or, Early Times in Southern California, by Horace Bell (HTML at LOC)
• Touching Incidents in the Life and Labors of a Pioneer on the Pacific Coast Since 1853, by Joseph Wilkinson Hines (HTML at LOC)
• A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848, by John Alfred Swan, ed. by John A. Hussey (HTML at LOC)
• A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush, by Franklin Agustus Buck (HTML at LOC)
• Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), ed. by Kristin Johnson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
• California Letters of Lucius Fairchild, by Lucius Fairchild, ed. by Joseph Schafer (HTML at LOC)
• The Gold Seekers of '49, by Kimball Webster (HTML at LOC)
• Golden Dreams and Waking Realities, by William Shaw (HTML at LOC)
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
• The Land of Little Rain (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1903), by Mary Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (HTML at LOC)
• A Pioneer at Sutter's Fort, 1846-1850, by Heinrich Lienhard, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
• Ranch Life in California, by Evelyn M. Herstlet (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of Pioneer Work in California, by James Woods (HTML at LOC)
• Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings, by Daniel Bates Woods (HTML at LOC)
• One Man's Gold: The Letters and Journal of a Forty-Niner (1930), by Enos Christman, ed. by Florence Morrow Christman (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a Newspaperman: A Record of Life and Events in California, by Frank Aleamon Leach (PDF at loc.gov)
• Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849 (Washington: Printed by J. T. Towers, 1850), by California Constitutional Convention (1849), ed. by J. Ross Browne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and XML at LOC
• Scharmann's Overland Journey to California, by Herman B. Scharmann, trans. by Margaret Hoff Zimmerman and Erich W. Zimmerman (HTML at LOC)
• Three Years in California, by John David Borthwick
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images in Germany
• Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9 (two volumes), by William Redmond Ryan (HTML at LOC)
• Vida y Aventuras del Más Célebre Bandido Sonorense, Joaquín Murrieta, y Sus Grandes Proezas en el Estado de California (sixth edition, in Spanish; Los Angeles: C. G. Vincent and Co., 1923), by Ireneo Paz
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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