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• Alaska and the Klondike gold fields ... Practical instructions for fortune seekers ... (National publishing co., 1897), by A. C. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern pioneering in Alaska. (Pageant Press, 1954), by Margaret Melin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• My travels and adventures in Alaska. (Seattle-Alaska Company, 1914), by Florence Lee Mallinson (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Report of Alaska Pioneers' Home ([Sitka, Alaska, in the 20th century), by Alaska) Pioneers' home (Sitka (page images at HathiTrust)

• More readings from One man's wilderness : the journals of Richard L. Proenneke, 1974-1980 (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve ;, 2005), by Richard Proenneke, John B. Branson, and Lake Clark National Park and Preserve (Agency : U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jessie Benton Frémont, A Woman Who Made History (San Francisco: Printed by J. H. Nash, 1935), by Catherine Coffin Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous scouts, including trappers, pioneers, and soldiers of the frontier : their hazardous and exciting adventures in the mighty drama of the white conquest of the American continent (Page Co., 1910), by Charles H. L. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer life in the West : comprising the adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Clarke, the Whetzels, and others, in their fierce encounters with the Indians. (Keystone Publishing Co., 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four American pioneers : Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, David Crockett, Kit Carson : a book for young Americans (American Book Co., 1900), by F. M. Perry and Katherine Beebe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and hunters of the West : comprising sketches and adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c. (Philadelphia : H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1856., 1856), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pioneers of the Rocky Mountains and the West (Macmillan, 1906), by Charles A. McMurry (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
• Jessie Benton Frémont, A Woman Who Made History (San Francisco: Printed by J. H. Nash, 1935), by Catherine Coffin Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arizona's yesterday : Being the narrative of John H. Cady, pioneer, by John H. Cady and Basil Woon (Gutenberg ebook)

• Country Nodes: An Anthropological Evaluation of William Keys' Desert Queen Ranch, Joshua Tree National Monument, California (Washington : Cultural Resources Management Division, 1977), by Patricia L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
• Seventy-Five Years in California, by William Heath Davis, ed. by Douglas S. Watson (HTML at LOC)
• Death Valley in '49, by William Lewis Manly (HTML at LOC)
• McNeil's Travels in 1849, To, Through, and From the Gold Regions, in California, by Samuel McNeil (HTML at LOC)
• The life of Bret Harte, with some account of the California pioneers (Houghton Mifflin, 1911), by Henry Childs Merwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Nation's benefactor, Gen'l John A. Sutter : memorial of his life and public services, and an appeal to Congress, to citizens of California, and the people of the United States (P. Barnes, 1880), by Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farnham's pictorial travels in California and Oregon (Nafis & Cornish ;, 1849), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold Rush adventures of James Lovell Loring (Kalamazoo Public Museum, 1963), by James Lovell Loring, Ruth Howard, and Alexis A Praus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Farnham's pictorial travels in California and Oregon (Nafis & Cornish ;, 1849), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham, Van Dien & Macdonald, and Nafis & Cornish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Pilsbury Hodgkins, better known throughout California as "Chips." (University of California, Library Photographic Service, 1909), by Pilsbury Hodgkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death Valley in '49: Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the gold mines of California; and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave "Death Valley" its name, by William Lewis Manly (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Story of a Pioneer: An Historical Sketch in Which is Depicted Some of the Struggles and Exciting Incidents Pertaining to the Early Settlement of Colorado (Denver: Reed Pub. Co., 1904), by V. Devinny (page images at Harvard)
• The story of a pioneer; an historical sketch in which is depicted some of the struggles and exciting incidents pertaining to the early settlement of Colorado (The Reed publishing company, 1904), by V. Devinny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneering in the San Juan; personal reminiscences of work done in southwestern Colorado during the "great San Juan excitement," (Fleming H. Revell company, 1899), by George M. Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneering in the San Juan; personal reminiscences of work done in southwestern Colorado during the "great San Juan excitement," (Fleming H. Revell company, 1899), by George M. Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mountain Boyhood, by Joe Mills, illust. by Enos B. Comstock (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wild Life on the Rockies, by Enos A. Mills (Gutenberg ebook)

• A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Charles Reynolds Matheny, 1786-1839 : an Illinois pioneer (Privately printed, 1941), by Walter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sons of the Wilderness: John and William Conner (Indiana Historical Society Publications v12; 1937), by Charles N. Thompson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains: The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain, by John R. Cook (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, by John Filson, contrib. by Daniel Boone (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon (from George Imlay's 1793 edition), by John Filson, contrib. by Daniel Boone (illustrated HTML at earlyamerica.com)
• Daniel Boone and the hunters of Kentucky (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by W. H. Bogart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Boone, pioneer of Kentucky (Dodd & Mead, 1872), by John S. C. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Boone : the pioneer of Kentucky (Dodd, Mead, 1875), by John S. C. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer, by Cecil B. Hartley (Gutenberg ebook)
• The First White Man of the West: Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky;: Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country., by Timothy Flint (Gutenberg ebook)

• A narrative of the captivity, sufferings and removes, of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, : who was taken prisoner by the Indians, with several others; and treated in the most barbarous and cruel manner by those vile savages:--with many other remarkable events during her travels. (Printed and sold by S. Hall, in Cornhill, Boston, 1794), by Mary White Rowlandson and Samuel Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• True history of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Printed first at New-England: and reprinted at London, and sold by Joseph Poole, at the Blue Bowl in the Long-Walk, by Christs-Church Hospital, 1682), by Mary White Rowlandson and Joseph Rowlandson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorial sermon, preached in the First Congregational Church of Detroit, May 16, 1880 (Hartford, Conn. : Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1880., 1880), by Zachary Eddy and Lockwood & Brainard Co Case (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old Rail Fence Corners: The A.B.C.'s of Minnesota History (second edition, 1914), ed. by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
• Old rail fence corners : the A.B.C.'s of Minnesota history : authentic incidents (F.H. McCulloch Print. Co., 1914), by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris and Daughters of the American Revolution. Minnesota Society. Book Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old rail fence corners : the A.B.C.'s of Minnesota history : authentic incidents (F.H. McCulloch Print. Co., 1915), by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris and Daughters of the American Revolution. Minnesota Society. Book Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies: Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana, by Robert Vaughn (Gutenberg ebook)

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