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• West (U.S.) -- Periodicals

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• The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2015), by John Jennings (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)
• Pistol Pete, Veteran of the Old West (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1952), by Frank Eaton and Eva Gillhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy Years on the Frontier: Alexander Majors' Memoirs of a Lifetime on the Border (reprint; Columbus, OH: Long's College Book Co., 1950), by Alexander Majors, ed. by Prentiss Ingraham, contrib. by Buffalo Bill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bone Days: A Short History of the Buffalo Bone Trade (c1939), by M. I. McCreight (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My Life on the Frontier, 1864-1882: Incidents and Characters of the Period When Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico Were Passing Through the Last of Their Wild and Romantic Years (New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1935), by Miguel Antonio Otero (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rath Trail (Wichita: McCormick-Armstrong, 1961), by Ida Ellen Rath (illustrated HTML at kancoll.org)
• Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871-1888), by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (Gutenberg text)
• Back-Trailing on the Old Frontiers (Great Falls, MT: Cheely-Raban Syndicate, 1922), illust. by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fights and Adventures with the Indians: Thrilling Stories of an American Scout on the Western Plains in the Old Days (East Chattanooga, TN: Andrews Printery, c1922), by H. E. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West, by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text)
• Reminiscences of Pioneer Life (Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1912), by Robert R. Latta
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Second William Penn: A True Account of Incidents That Happened Along the Old Santa Fe Trail in the Sixties, by W. H. Ryus (Gutenberg text)
• Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains: or, The Last Voice From the Plains, by William F. Drannan (Gutenberg text)
• True Tales of the Plains (1908), by Buffalo Bill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains, by George Frederick Ruxton (HTML at xmission.com)
• One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Ronald O. Barney (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Mormon Midwife: The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1997), by Patty Bartlett Sessions, ed. by Donna Toland Smart (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• An Army Wife on the Frontier: The Memoirs of Alice Blackwood Baldwin, 1867-1877, by Alice Blackwood Baldwin, ed. by Robert C. Carriker and Eleanor R. Carriker (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)
• Buffalo Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody) and His Wild West Companions, Including Wild Bill, Texas Jack, California Joe, Capt. Jack Crawford, and Other Famous Scouts of the Western Plains (Chicago: The Hennebery Co., ca. 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill's Own Story of His Life and Deeds: This Autobiography Tells in His Own Graphic Words the Wonderful Story of His Heroic Career (memorial edition; c1917), by Buffalo Bill, contrib. by William Lightfoot Visscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Buffalo Harvest, by Frank H. Mayer and Charles B. Roth (HTML at PBS)
• Clay Allison of the Washita, First a Cow Man and Then an Extinguisher of Bad Men; Recollections of Colorado, New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle (c1922), by O. S. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides; Including a True and Thrilling History of Gen. Custer's Famous "Last Fight" on the Little Big Horn, with Sitting Bull (New York and St. Louis: N. D. Thompson and Co., 1882), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, by Solomon Nunes Carvalho
  • HTML at jewish-history.com
  • page images at MOA
• Journal of Army Life, by Rodney Glisan (page images at MOA)
• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill" (1917 edition), by Buffalo Bill (HTML at PBS)
• The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians (New York: Harper and Bros., 1856), by James Pierson Beckwourth, ed. by T. D. Bonner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout (Chicago: Belford, Clarke and Co., 1880), by James W. Buel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Life in the Far West (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849), by George Frederick Ruxton (page images in Germany)
• Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49, by Lorenzo Dow Stephens (HTML at LOC)
• Locating the Iron Trail (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1925), by Edward Gillette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our New West, by Samuel Bowles (HTML at LOC)
• Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West (Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Co., 1883), by Richard Irving Dodge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of the Cowboy (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897), by Emerson Hough, illust. by William L. Wells and Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Westward by Rail: The New Route to the East, by W. Fraser Rae (page images at MOA)
• Copies of Calamity Jane's Diary and Letters, Taken From the Originals Now On Exhibit at the Western Trails Museum, Billings, Montana (claimed Calamity Jane authorship disputed by historians; published ca. 1949), contrib. by Jean Hickok McCormick and Calamity Jane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kit Carson's Autobiography (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1935), by Kit Carson, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scouting on Two Continents (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1926), by Frederick Russell Burnham, ed. by Mary Nixon Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boy General: Story of the Life of Major-General George A. Custer (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), by Elizabeth Bacon Custer, ed. by Mary E. Burt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Boy General: Story of the Life of Major-General George A. Custer (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Elizabeth Bacon Custer, ed. by Mary E. Burt (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
• The Great Salt Lake Trail, by Henry Inman and Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
• Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
• The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway, by Henry Inman, contrib. by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
• The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman (Gutenberg text)
• The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by Francis Parkman, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., 1922), by Ezra Meeker and Howard R. Driggs, illust. by F. N. Wilson (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
• Pioneer Tales of the Oregon Trail and of Jefferson County (Topeka: Crane and Co., 1912), by Charles Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Tenting on the Plains: or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas (New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1887), by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tenting on the Plains: or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas (New York: Harper and Bros., 1895), by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border, by Randolph B. Marcy (page images at MOA)
• Belle Starr, The Bandit Queen: The Career of the Most Colorful Outlaw the Indian Territory Ever Knew (published under "William Yancey Shackleford" pseudonym; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1943), by Vance Randolph (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-Two Years With a World-Famous Detective Agency (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1912), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier; Also, a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer, With a Full Account of His Last Battle (Hartford: Columbian Book Co., 1877), by Frances Fuller Victor
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at Wisconsin
• Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier; Also, a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer, With a Full Account of His Last Battle (based on the 1881 edition, with some illustrations scanned from the 1877 edition), by Frances Fuller Victor (HTML with commentary at Wikisource)
• Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early, One of the Pioneers of African Methodism in the West and South (Nashville: Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1894), by Sarah J. W. Early (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879), by Buffalo Bill (page images at LOC)
• 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
• Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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