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• 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)

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• Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion (Stillwater, OK: Barbed Wire Press, c1991), by Bill O'Neal (page images at Portal to Texas History)
• 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)
• 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)
• Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by James Willard Schultz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (New York et al.: Harper and Row, c1904; edition published after author's death), by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871-1888), by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (Gutenberg text)
• An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920), by Buffalo Bill, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself (1907), by Nat Love (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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
• 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
• Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)
• Men who are making the West (B. C. Forbes publishing co., 1923), by B. C. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts; the romance of American history, thrilling narratives of renowned adventurers, explorers, heroes, trappers, scouts and Indian fighters, Boone, Brady, Bridger, Buffalo Bill ... McCullough, Reynolds, Texas Jack, Wild Bill, etc., and General Custer against Sitting Bull, General Crook against the Apaches (W. Abbatt, 1926), by E. G. Cattermole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notables of the West : being the portraits and biographies of the progressive men of the West who have helped in the development and history making of this wonderful country. (International News Service, 1913), by International News Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poets and poetry of the West: with biographical and critical notices. (Follett, Foster and Company, 1860), by William Turner Coggeshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• One side by himself : the life and times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 (Utah State University Press, 2001), by Lewis O. Barney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years among the Indians and Mexicans (R.R. Donnelley, 1953), by Thomas James and Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gunfighters (Mike Roberts Color Productions, 1959), by Lea Franklin McCarty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The province and the states, a history of the province of Louisiana under France and Spain, and of the territories and states of the United States formed therefrom ... (The Weston historical association, 1904), by Weston Arthur Goodspeed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy years on the frontier; Alexander Majors' memoirs of a lifetime on the border. (The Western Miner and Financier Publishers, 1893), by Alexander Majors, Buffalo Bill, and Prentiss Ingraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poets and poetry of the West : with biographical and critical notices (Follett, Foster and Company, 1864), by William Turner Coggeshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill, boy of the Plains. (Bobbs-Merrill, 1959), by Augusta Stevenson and E. Joseph Dreany (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Who's who in the West. (Marquis Who's Who, Inc., 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts; the vanguards of American civilization ... including Boone, Crawford, Girty, Molly Finney, the McCulloughs ... Captain Jack, Buffalo Bill, General Custer with his last campaiggn against Sitting Bull, and General Crook with his recent campaign against the Apaches. (M. A. Donohue & company, 1880), by E. G. Cattermole (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Biographical history, with portraits, of prominent men of the great West. Illustrations in steel. (Manhattan publishing company, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts : the romance of American civilization ... a thrilling narrative of the lives and marvelous exploits of the most renowned heroes, trappers, explorers, explorers, adventurers, scouts, and Indian fighters, Boone ... [et al.] ... (Donohue, Henneberry, 1890), by E. G. Cattermole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hunters of the west, comprising sketches and adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson. (Peck & Bliss, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts; the vanguards of American civilization ... including Boone, Crawford, Girty, Molly Finney, the McCulloughs ... Captain Jack, Buffalo Bill, General Custer with his last campaign against Sitting Bull, and General Crook with his recent campaign against the Apaches. (Coburn & Newman, 1883), by E. G. Cattermole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the plains: (Historical publishing company, 1883), by James William Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the plains: (Historical publishing co., 1884), by James William Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous gunfighters of the western frontier (Frontier Press of Texas, 1957), by Bat Masterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Western sheriffs and marshals. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1955), by Thomas Penfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the plains; or, Lives and wonderful adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill ... and other celebrated Indian fighters ... including a true and thrilling history of Gen. Custer's famous "last fight" ... also a sketch of the life of Sitting Bull, and his account of the Custer massacre, as related to the author in person. (Historical publishing company, 1883), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the plains : or, Lives and wonderful adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill...and other celebrated Indian fighters...including a true and thrilling history of Gen. Custer's famous "last fight"...also a sketch of the life of Sitting Bull, and his account of the Custer massacre, as related to the author in person (Standard Pub. Co., 1886), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The border outlaws : an authentic and thrilling history of the most noted bandits of ancient or modern times, the Younger brothers, Jesse and Frank James, and their comrades in crime ... (Forshee & McMakin, 1882), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the plains, or, Lives and wonderful adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, "White Beaver," Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and other celebrated Indian fighters, scouts, hunters and guides (Cincinnati Publishing Co., 1884), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of our wild west and stories of pioneer life : from experiences of Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, Kit Carson, David Crockett, Sam Houston, Generals Crook, Miles, and Custer, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, great Indian chiefs, and other famous frontiersmen and Indian fighters ... (Stanton, 1901), by D. M. Kelsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• True tales of the plains (Empire Book Company, 1908), by Buffalo Bill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dalton Brothers and their astounding career of crime (Laird & Lee, 1892), by C. de Saint-Germain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlaws of the border : a complete and authentic history of the lives of Frank and Jesse James, the Younger brothers, and their robber companions, including Quantrell and his noted guerillas, the greatest bandits the world has ever known. A wonderful record of crime and its consequences, drawn with great care from reliable sources. A thrilling narrative, vividely wirtten (International Publishing Company :, 1882), by Jay Donald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the plains, or, Lives and wonderful adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne ... : and other celebrated Indian fighters ... also a sketch of the life of Sitting Bull, and his account of the Custer massacre, as related to the author in person. (West Philadelphia Publ. Co., 1891), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the plains; or, Lives and wonderful adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill ... and other celebrated Indian fighters ... including a true and thrilling history of Gen. Custer's famous "last fight" ... also a sketch of the life of Sitting Bull, and his account of the Custer massacre, as related to the author in person. (Historical publishing co., 1800), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dalton Brothers and their astounding career of crime (Laird & Lee, 1892), by C. de Saint-Germain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rebecca Winters story. (Scotts Bluff National Monument, 1996), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous heros of the Old West (Grosset & Dunlap, 1957), by William Moyers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 ... (West Philadelphia Pub. Co., 1891), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poets and poetry of the West: with biographical and critical notices. (Follett, Foster and Company, 1861), by William Turner Coggeshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Press reference library (International news service, 1913), by International News Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild West, by John M. Burke (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life and Adventures of Nat Love: Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick", by Nat Love (Gutenberg ebook)

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