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

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

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• Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and life on the frontier : also A history of the Sioux War, and a life of Gen. George A. Custer, with full account of his last battle (Columbian Book Co., 1877), by Frances Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience During Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering From the Missouri to the Pacific and From Alaska to Mexico (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Carrie Adell Strahorn, illust. by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The splendid wayfaring : the story of the exploits and adventures of Jedediah Smith and his comrades, the Ashley-Henry men, discoverers and explorers of the great central route from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, 1822-1831 (Macmillan Company, 1920), by John Gneisenau Neihardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a tour from the state of Indiana to the Oregon territory in the years 1841-2 (The Cadmus Book Shop, 1921), by Joseph Williams and James Carlton Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Uncle Dick" Wootton, the pioneer frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain region : an account of the adventures and thrilling experiences of the most noted American hunter, trapper, guide, scout, and Indian fighter now living (W.E. Dibble, 1890), by Dick Wootton, Joseph Kirkland, and Howard Louis Conard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy years on the frontier; Alexander Majors' memoirs of a lifetime on the border. (The Western Miner and Financier Publishers, 1893), by Alexander Majors, Buffalo Bill, and Prentiss Ingraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and adventures of Josiah Mooso. (Telegram Print., 1888), by Josiah Mooso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in the Far Northwest, 1839-1846 (A.H. Clark, 1906), by Pierre-Jean de Smet, Thomas Jefferson Farnham, and Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Uncle Dick" Wootton, the pioneer frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain region : an account of the adventures and thrilling experiences of the most noted American hunter, trapper, guide, scout, and Indian fighter now living (Time-Life Books, 1980), by Dick Wootton and Howard Louis Conard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• True tales of the plains (Empire Book Company, 1908), by Buffalo Bill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rebecca Winters story. (Scotts Bluff National Monument, 1996), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild West, by John M. Burke (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's diary : also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's (H.R. Egan Estate, 1917), by Howard Egan, Wm. M. Egan, and Howard R. Egan (page images at HathiTrust)
• One side by himself : the life and times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 (Utah State University Press, 2001), by Lewis O. Barney (page images at HathiTrust)
• No place to call home : the 1807-1857 life writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, chronicler of outlying Mormon communities (Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, S. George Ellsworth, Susan Ward Payne, and Edward Leo Lyman (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)
• 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)
• True tales of the plains (Empire Book Company, 1908), by Buffalo Bill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baughman, the Oklahoma scout. Personal reminiscences (Belford, Clarke & Co., 1886), by Theodore Baughman (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)
• 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
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• Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience During Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering From the Missouri to the Pacific and From Alaska to Mexico (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Carrie Adell Strahorn, illust. by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rebecca Winters story. (Scotts Bluff National Monument, 1996), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Overland journey to California : Journal of James Bennett whose party left New Harmony in 1850 and crossed the plains and mountains until the golden West was reached. (Ye Galleon Press, 1987), by James Bennett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Journal of an overland journey to Oregon made in the year 1849 (Ye Galleon Press, 1985), by William J. Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Journal of Jacob Fowler: Narrating an Adventure from Arkansas Through the Indian: Territory, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, to: the Sources of Rio Grande del Norte, 1821-22, by Jacob Fowler, ed. by Elliott Coues (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• Mormon midwife : the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions (Utah State University Press, 1997), by Patty Bartlett Sessions and Donna Toland Smart (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Daring Davy, the young bear killer, or, The trail of the border wolf (New York : Beadle and Adams, No. 98 William Street, 1879., 1879), by Harry St. George and Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonel Crockett, the Texan trailer, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Death-Dealer, the Shawnee Scourge; or The Wizard of the Cliffs, by Arthur L. Meserve (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Phantom Rider; or The Giant Chief's Fate: A tale of the old Dahcotah country, by Maro O. Rolfe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Antelope Boy; or, Smoholler the Medicine Man: A Tale of Indian Adventure and Mystery, by George L. Aiken (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lightning Jo, the Terror of the Santa Fe Trail: A Tale of the Present Day, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg ebook)

• Judith of the plains; a novel (Harper & brothers, 1903), by Marie Manning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horrible, mysterious and awful disclosures in the life of the Creole murderess Zilla Fitz James, paramour and accomplice of Green H. Long, the treble murderer for the space of six years (Published by A.R. Orton, 1852), by Zilla Fitz James, A. R. Orton, and A. Richards (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Unseen Hand; or, James Renfew and His Boy Helpers, by Elijah Kellogg, illust. by W. P. Snyder (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chumley's post (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), by William Osborn Stoddard, illust. by Charles H. Stephens (page images at Florida)
• Three little crackers from down in Dixie (Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1898), by Will Allen Dromgoole and C.H. Simonds & Co, illust. by Etheldred B. Barry (page images at Florida)

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