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• Pioneers -- West (U.S.)
• Juvenile fiction

• With Axe and Rifle, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text)

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

• 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)

• The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel, U.S.A., by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)

• The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel, U.S.A., by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• Mormon Midwife: The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1997), by Patty Bartlett Sessions, ed. by Donna Toland Smart (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Mormon Trail: Yesterday and Today (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), by William E. Hill (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• 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)

• Buffalo Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody) and His Wild West Companions, Including Wild Bill, Texas Jack, California Joe, Capt. Jack Crawford, and Other Famous Scouts of the Western Plains (Chicago: The Hennebery Co., ca. 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill's Own Story of His Life and Deeds: This Autobiography Tells in His Own Graphic Words the Wonderful Story of His Heroic Career (memorial edition; c1917), by Buffalo Bill, contrib. by William Lightfoot Visscher (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)
• 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 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)
• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill" (1917 edition), by Buffalo Bill (HTML at PBS)
• 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)

• Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood (Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, vol. 1, #1; c1881), by Prentiss Ingraham
  • illustrated HTML at Stanford
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Buffalo Bill and His Adventures in the West (New York: J. S. Ogilvie and Co., c1886), by Ned Buntline (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill Entrapped: or, A Close Call (New York: Street and Smith, c1915), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text)
• Buffalo Bill, the Border King: or, Redskin and Cowboy (Buffalo Bill Border Stories #1; New York: Street and Smith, c1907), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Buffalo Bill's Boy Bugler: or, The Last of the Indian Ring (Great Western Library #141; New York: Street and Smith, c1909), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Buffalo Bill's Death Call: or, On a Red Trail (New York: Street and Smith, c1907), by Prentiss Ingraham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer: or, The Stranger in Camp (New York: Street and Smith, c1908), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text)
• Buffalo Bill, The Buckskin King: or, The Amazon of the West (originally published 1890; Charles Bragin's Dime Novel Club reprint, ca. 1945), by Prentiss Ingraham (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)
• Kit Carson's Fight with the Comanche and Kiowa Indians, at the Adobe Walls on the Canadian River, November 25th, 1864 (Personal narratives of the Battles of the Rebellion #5; Providence, RI: S. S. Rider, 1878), by George H. Pettis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson, by John S. C. Abbott (page images at MOA)
• Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains: or, The Last Voice From the Plains, by William F. Drannan (Gutenberg text)

• Recollections (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co. c1920), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (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)
• Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Deadwood Dick on Deck: or, Calamity Jane, the Heroine of Whoop-Up (Beadles Pocket Library, v5 #57; New York: Beadle and Adams, c1885), by Edward L. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Thorny Path, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Blue Ghost Mystery (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1960), by John Blaine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Sue: A Little Heroine, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• Lenny, the Orphan: or, Trials and Triumphs (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1869), by Margaret Hosmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tim and His Friends (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1892) (page images at Florida)

• The Dingo Boys, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by W. S. Stacey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• First in the Field: A Story of New South Wales, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures in Australia (complete; Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Bracebridge Hemyng (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Shuttle, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text and Librivox audio)
• The Shuttle (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1907), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.