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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)
• 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
• Thrilling Events, Life of Henry Starr: Famous Cherokee Indian Outlaw Narrates His Many Adventures From Boyhood to Date (1914), by Henry Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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• 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

• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Lost River Trail (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1924), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• Thrilling Events, Life of Henry Starr: Famous Cherokee Indian Outlaw Narrates His Many Adventures From Boyhood to Date (1914), by Henry Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of Bob and Cole Younger With Quantrell: Daring and Startling Episodes in the Lives of These Notorious Bandits (Chicago: Regan Pub. Corp., ca. 1916), by Clarence E. Ray (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 Youngers' Fight for Freedom: A Southern Soldier's Twenty Years' Campaign to Open Northern Prison Doors, With Anecdotes of War Days (Columbia, MO: Printed for the author by E. W. Stephens Pub. Co., 1906), by W. C. Bronaugh
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Younger Brothers: Their Life and Character (new edition of Appler's "The Guerrillas of the West", with an introduction by Rascoe; New York: F. Fell, c1955), by Augustus C. Appler, contrib. by Burton Rascoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated Lives and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James and the Younger Brothers, the Noted Western Outlaws (new edition; New York and St. Louis: N.D. Thompson and Co., 1882), by J. A. Dacus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Border Bandits: An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Noted Outlaws, Jesse and Frank James, and Their Bands of Highwaymen (St. Louis: Historical Pub. Co., 1881), by James W. Buel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Last Raid of the Daltons: A Reliable Recital of the Battle With the Bandits at Coffeyville, Kansas, October 5, 1892 (originally published 1892; reprinted with an added foreword 1954), by David Stewart Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• 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 (St. Louis and Philadelphia: Historical Pub. Co., 1883), by James W. Buel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• At the Grass Roots: Comprising "The Christmas of 1883", and Other Vagrant Sketches (Topeka: Crane and Co., 1905), by Jay E. House, illust. by Albert Turner Reid
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com
  • page images at HathiTrust

• J. Ross Browne: A Biography (doctoral dissertation; Washington: Catholic University of America, 1929), by Francis J. Rock (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 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
• 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)

• 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 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)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)

• 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 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)
• 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)
• The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879), by Buffalo Bill (page images at LOC)
• Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience During Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering From the Missouri to the Pacific and From Alaska to Mexico (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Carrie Adell Strahorn, illust. by Charles M. Russell (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)
• The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879), by Buffalo Bill (page images at LOC)
• Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains: or, The Last Voice From the Plains, by William F. Drannan (Gutenberg text)

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