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• Journal of a Trapper, by Osborne Russell (HTML at xmission.com)

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• Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company, by Hudson's Bay Company (Gutenberg text)

• The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1914), by Agnes C. Laut
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Peter Pond, Fur Trader and Adventurer (1930), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Voyageur (reprint edition; St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1955), by Grace Lee Nute, illust. by Carl W. Bertsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America (London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1744), by Arthur Dobbs, contrib. by Christopher Middleton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Voyages From Montreal on the River St. Laurence, Through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans, in the Years 1789 and 1793 : With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Fur Trade of That Country (London, 1801), by Alexander Mackenzie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader: Describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians (London: Printed for the author, 1791), by J. Long (multiple formats at archive.org)
• John Long's Voyages and Travels in the Years 1768-1788 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1922), by J. Long, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gentlemen of the North (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Hugh Pendexter, illust. by Ralph P. Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Young Voyageurs, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Voyageur (reprint edition; St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1955), by Grace Lee Nute, illust. by Carl W. Bertsch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heralds of Empire: Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1902), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lords of the North (Toronto: W. Briggs, ca. 1900), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Heralds of Empire: Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1902), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lords of the North (Toronto: W. Briggs, ca. 1900), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Free Trapper's Pass: or, The Gold-Seeker's Daughter (Jackson's Novels #2), by William R. Eyster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Away in the Wilderness, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri, 1812-1813, by John C. Luttig (HTML at xmission.com)

• Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839: Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur Trader's Experiences among the Mandans, Gros Ventres and Their Neighbors; of the Ravages of the Small-Pox Epidemic of 1837 (Pierre, SD: Pub. under the auspices of L. K. Fox, Dept. of History, State of South Dakota, 1932), by Francis A. Chardon, ed. by Annie Heloise Abel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839: Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur Trader's Experiences among the Mandans, Gros Ventres and Their Neighbors; of the Ravages of the Small-Pox Epidemic of 1837 (Pierre, SD: Pub. under the auspices of L. K. Fox, Dept. of History, State of South Dakota, 1932), by Francis A. Chardon, ed. by Annie Heloise Abel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Caesars of the Wilderness: Médard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1943), by Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plan for Promoting the Fur Trade, and Securing It to This Country, By Uniting the Operations of the East-India and Hudson's-Bay Companys (1789), by Alexander Dalrymple (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin: A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1891), by Frederick Jackson Turner
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814, Or, The First American Settlement on the Pacific (New York: Redfield, 1854), by Gabriel Franchère, trans. by J. V. Huntington
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com
• Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v8; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)

• Five Fur Traders of the Northwest: Being the Narrative of Peter Pond and the Diaries of John Macdonell. Archibald N. McLeod, Hugh Faries, and Thomas Connor (Minneapolis: Pub. for the Minnesota Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The University of Minnesota Press, 1933), ed. by Charles M. Gates, contrib. by Peter Pond, John Macdonell, Archibald Norman McLeod, Hugh Faries, Thomas Connor, and Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Unfinished Autobiography of Henry Hastings Sibley, by Henry Hastings Sibley (page images at loc.gov)

• Selected Journals, by John Work (HTML at xmission.com)
• The Fur Hunters of the Far West: A Narrative of Adventures in the Oregon and Rocky Mountains (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855), by Alexander Ross
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado, 1830-1835, by Warren Angus Ferris (HTML and PDF at xmission.com)

• A Narrative of Colonel Robert Campbell's Experiences in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade from 1825 to 1835, by Robert Campbell (HTML at xmission.com)

• Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader and Trapper, 1831-1836, by Zenas Leonard (HTML at xmission.com)

• Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)

• Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado, 1830-1835, by Warren Angus Ferris (HTML and PDF at xmission.com)
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)

• Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)

• The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude (New York: R. Worthington, 1873), by Jules Verne, trans. by N. D'Anvers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fur Country; or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude (New York: W. L. Allison, ca. 1873), by Jules Verne, trans. by N. D'Anvers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude (Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1874), by Jules Verne, trans. by N. D'Anvers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude, by Jules Verne, trans. by N. D'Anvers (Gutenberg HTML)
• Snowflakes and Sunbeams, Or, The Young Fur Traders: A Tale of the Far North (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1856), by R. M. Ballantyne (multiple formats at Google)
• The Young Fur-Traders, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Seat of Empire, by Charles Carleton Coffin (page images at MOA)
• Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)

• Journal of a Trapper, by Osborne Russell (HTML at xmission.com)
• The New Northwest, by William D. Kelley (page images at MOA)
• Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com
• Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v8; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
• The Solitary Hunter: or, Sporting Adventures in the Prairies (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1856), by John Palliser (page images in Germany)
• The Journals and Letters of Major John Owen, Pioneer of the Northwest, 1850-1871 (2 volumes; New York: E. Eberstadt, 1927), by John Owen, ed. by Seymour Dunbar, contrib. by Paul C. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at xmission.com
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
• The Old North Trail: or, Life, Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians, by Walter McClintock
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Life on the Plains of the Pacific: Oregon, Its History, Condition and Prospects, Containing a Description of the Geography, Climate and Productions, with Personal Adventures Among the Indians During a Residence of the Author on the Plains Bordering the Pacific While Connected with the Oregon Mission, Embracing Extended Notes of a Voyage Around the World (Buffalo: G. H. Derby and Co., 1851), by Gustavus Hines (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life on the Plains of the Pacific: Oregon, Its History, Condition and Prospects, Containing a Description of the Geography, Climate and Productions, with Personal Adventures Among the Indians During a Residence of the Author on the Plains Bordering the Pacific While Connected with the Oregon Mission, Embracing Extended Notes of a Voyage Around the World (Buffalo: G. H. Derby and Co.; Chicago: Hewson and Denison, 1852), by Gustavus Hines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missien van den Orégon en Reizen Naer de Rotsbergen en de Bronnen der Colombia, der Athabasca en Sascatshawin, in 1845-46 (in Dutch; Ghent: Vander Schelden, 1849), by Pierre-Jean de Smet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oregon Missions and Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, in 1845-46 (New York: E. Dunigan, 1847), by Pierre-Jean de Smet (multiple formats at archive.org)

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