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• Death Valley and Manly (Death Valley '49ers, 1962), by Ardis Manly Walker and Death Valley '49ers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• 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 (San Francisco: J. Howell, 1929), by William Heath Davis, ed. by Douglas S. Watson
  • PDF with commentary at loc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Death Valley in '49 (San Jose: Pacific Tree and Vine Co., 1894), by William Lewis Manly (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• 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)
• The Argonauts of California: being the reminiscenses of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in the early mining days, by Charles Warren Haskins (Gutenberg ebook)

• Antoine Ouilmette : a resident of Chicago A.D. 1790-1826. The first settler of Evanston and Wilmette (1826-1838) with a brief history of his family and the Ouilmette reservation (Evanston Historical Society, 1908), by Frank R. Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zorra boys at home and abroad, or, How to succeed (W. Briggs, 1900), by W. A. MacKay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer life in Zorra (W. Briggs, 1899), by W. A. MacKay and George W. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life and travels of Josiah Mooso a life on the frontier among Indians and Spaniards, not seeing the face of a white woman for fifteen years. (s.n.], 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer life in Zorra (W. Briggs, 1899), by W. A. MacKay and George W. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• First citizen of Prescott : Pauline Weaver, trapper and mountain man (s.n., 1929), by Sharlot Mabridth Hall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our untitled nobility (London: Gall & Ingles, 1873), by John Tillotson, illust. by Holman & Bale (page images at Florida)

• The faith of our pioneer fathers. (Deseret Book Co., 1956), by Bryant S. Hinckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of a pioneer; being the autobiography of James S. Brown. (AMS Press, 1971), by James S. Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown, by James S. Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• Forty Years Among the Indians: A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives, by Daniel W. Jones (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)

• Man Proposes, God Disposes: Recollections of a French Pioneer (c2013), by Pierre Maturié, trans. by Vivien Bosley (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

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

• Reminiscences of an Australian pioneer (Tyrrell, 1917), by Robert D. Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian pioneers and reminiscences (illustrated) : together with portraits of some of the founders of Australia (Gordon and Gotch, 1896), by Nehemiah Bartley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of the Australian colonies and New Zealand : a thrilling narrative of the early days, embodying the life-history of Captain William Jackson Barry who arrived in New South Wales in 1829 (Brett Print. and Pub. Co., 1903), by William Jackson Barry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reminiscences of Australia : containing 70 years of his own knowledge and 35 years of his ancestors (G. Robertson, 1894), by James T. Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The pioneer women of Vancouver Island 1843-1866 (Women's Canadian Club of Victoria, 1928), by N. de Bertrand Lugrin and John Hosie (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Ranald MacDonald: The Narrative of His Early Life on the Columbia.Under the Hudson's Bay Company's Regime, by Ranald MacDonald (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)

• 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)

• Pioneer history of Davis County, Iowa ([Bloomfield, Iowa] : Bloomfield Democrat, [1927?], 1927), by Lena Ford-Leon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pioneering in the Northwest: Niobrara-Virginia City Wagon Road, by Albert M. Holman; Pioneers, Short Sketches of Charles Floyd, War Eagle, Theophile Bruguier, and Others, by Constant R. Marks (Sioux City, IA: Deitch and Lamar Co., 1924), by Albert M. Holman and C. R. Marks (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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