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• 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)

• 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)

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• 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)

• A Forty-Niner in Utah, With the Stansbury Exploration of Great Salt Lake: Letters and Journal of John Hudson, 1848-50, by John Hudson, ed. by Brigham D. Madsen (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• A Forty-Niner in Utah, With the Stansbury Exploration of Great Salt Lake: Letters and Journal of John Hudson, 1848-50, by John Hudson, ed. by Brigham D. Madsen (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• Tenderfoot Days in Territorial Utah, by George Robert Bird (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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
  • 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)

• 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)

• 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 (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 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)

• The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer; With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1884), by Edward Sylvester Ellis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Early Settlers Life in Texas (reprint; ca. 1963), by A. Y. Kirkpatrick (page images at Portal to Texss History)
• The Early Settlers Life in Texas, and the Organization of Hill County (ca. 1909), by A. Y. Kirkpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington

• A Pioneer's Search For an Ideal Home: A Book of Personal Memoirs, by Phoebe Goodell Judson (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)

• Worth Their Salt, Too: More Notable But Often Unnoted Women of Utah (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2000), ed. by Colleen Whitley (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches, To Accompany the Picture Bearing the Same Title (Salt Lake City: Printed by J. C. Graham and Co., 1884), by Augusta Joyce Crocheron (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• 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)

• Castle Valley, America: Hard Land, Hard-Won Home (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Nancy J. Taniguchi
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• Castle Valley, America: Hard Land, Hard-Won Home (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Nancy J. Taniguchi
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• A Mormon Rebel: The Life and Travels of Frederick Gardiner, by Frederick Gardiner, ed. by Hugh Garner (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• 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)

• Old Deseret Live Stock Company: A Stockman's Memoir (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by W. Dean Frischknecht (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• A Basket of Chips: An Autobiography, by James Taylor Harwood, ed. by Robert S. Olpin (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Leave the Dishes in the Sink: Adventures of an Activist in Conservative Utah (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Alison Comish Thorne (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Roll Away Saloon: Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip (originally published 1979; this edition Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1985), by Rowland W. Rider, contrib. by Deirdre Paulsen (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• A Mormon Rebel: The Life and Travels of Frederick Gardiner, by Frederick Gardiner, ed. by Hugh Garner (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), ed. by David Stanley (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Washakie Letters of Willie Ottogary, Northwestern Shoshone Journalist and Leader, 1906-1929 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2000), by Willie Ottogary, ed. by Matthew E. Kreitzer, contrib. by Barre Toelken (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Worth Their Salt, Too: More Notable But Often Unnoted Women of Utah (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2000), ed. by Colleen Whitley (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by William B. Smart (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• A Fragment: The Autobiography of Mary Jane Mount Tanner, by Mary J. Tanner, ed. by Margery W. Ward (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)
• Brigham Young and His Mormon Empire (1913), by Frank J. Cannon and George L. Knapp (HTML at laughtergenealogy.com)

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