Pioneers -- United States
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- Barney, Lewis, 1808-1894
- Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820
- Burlend, Rebecca, 1793-1872
- Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836
- Cumming, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Wells Randall), 1811-1867
- Davis, William Heath, 1822-1909
- Judson, Phoebe Goodell, 1832-1926
- Manly, William Lewis, 1820-1903
- Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899
- Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
- Swan, James G., 1818-1900
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True Stories of Our Pioneers: The Heroic Deeds and Devoted Lives of the Fathers and Mothers of America, Embracing the Principal Episodes in the Struggle of the White Race and the Red Men for the Possession of the New World (c1904), by Augustus Lynch Mason, contrib. by John Clark Ridpath and Trumbull White (multiple formats at Indiana)
- Jessie Benton Frémont, A Woman Who Made History (San Francisco: Printed by J. H. Nash, 1935), by Catherine Coffin Phillips (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
- Jessie Benton Frémont, A Woman Who Made History (San Francisco: Printed by J. H. Nash, 1935), by Catherine Coffin Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 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)
- 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)
- Sons of the Wilderness: John and William Conner (Indiana Historical Society Publications v12; 1937), by Charles N. Thompson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- Old Rail Fence Corners: The A.B.C.'s of Minnesota History (second edition, 1914), ed. by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
- Life of David Crockett, the Original Humorist and Irrepressible Backwoodsman: Comprising His Early History; His Bear Hunting and Other Adventures; His Services in the Creek War; His Electioneering Speeches and Career in Congress; with His Triumphal Tour Through the Northern States, and Services in the Texas War. To Which is Added an Account of His Glorious Death at the Alamo While Fighting in Defence of Texan Independence (Philadelphia: J.E. Potter and Co., c1865), by Davy Crockett, contrib. by Richard Penn Smith
- The Early Settlers Life in Texas (reprint; ca. 1963), by A. Y. Kirkpatrick (page images at Portal to Texas History)
- The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Gammel Book Co., c1900), by Noah Smithwick, ed. by Nanna Smithwick Donaldson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Genteel Gentile: Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857-1858, by Elizabeth Cumming, ed. by Ray R. Canning and Beverly Beeton (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)
- The North-West Coast: or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory (London: S. Low, Son and Co.; New York, Harper and Bros., 1857), by James G. Swan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Northwest Coast, or Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1857), by James G. Swan
- The Lost Wagon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1955), by Jim Kjelgaard, illust. by Albert Orbaan and Gerald McCann (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Some Elements of Indiana's Population: or, Roads West and Their Early Travelers (Indianapolis: E. J. Hecker, 1908), by William E. Henry (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Minnesota Pioneer Sketches, by Frank G. O'Brien (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California (Salt Lake City: Western Printing Co., 1930), by Charles Kelly (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)
- Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky, Interspersed With Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country (Cincinnati: G. Conclin, 1845), by Timothy Flint (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1902), by Reuben Gold Thwaites
- Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by H. Addington Bruce (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Stewart Edward White, illust. by Remington Schuyler
- The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke (1784), by John Filson, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
- The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone; Crockett; Carson (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Pioneers of the Old Southwest: A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground, by Constance Lindsay Skinner (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Philadelphia, E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore, Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Davy Crockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life of David Crockett, the Original Humorist and Irrepressible Backwoodsman: Comprising His Early History; His Bear Hunting and Other Adventures; His Services in the Creek War; His Electioneering Speeches and Career in Congress; with His Triumphal Tour Through the Northern States, and Services in the Texas War. To Which is Added an Account of His Glorious Death at the Alamo While Fighting in Defence of Texan Independence (Philadelphia: J.E. Potter and Co., c1865), by Davy Crockett, contrib. by Richard Penn Smith
- David Crockett: His Life and Adventures (New York: Dodd and Mead, 1875), by John S. C. Abbott
- David Crockett: His Life and Adventures, by John S. C. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
- The Story of the Filibusters; To Which is Added the Life of Colonel David Crockett (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by James Jeffrey Roche
- The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone; Crockett; Carson (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Genteel Gentile: Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857-1858, by Elizabeth Cumming, ed. by Ray R. Canning and Beverly Beeton (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)
- Seventy-Five Years in California, by William Heath Davis, ed. by Douglas S. Watson (HTML at LOC)
- A Pioneer's Search For an Ideal Home: A Book of Personal Memoirs, by Phoebe Goodell Judson (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
- Death Valley in '49, by William Lewis Manly (HTML at LOC)
- The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Gammel Book Co., c1900), by Noah Smithwick, ed. by Nanna Smithwick Donaldson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
- The Northwest Coast, or Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1857), by James G. Swan
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