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• Review of the Grizzly and Big Brown Bears of North America (Genus Ursus), With Description of a New Genus, Vetularctos (North American Fauna series, #41; Washington: GPO, 1918), by C. Hart Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919), by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1919), by James Oliver Curwood, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)

• Goldilocks and the Three Bears (New York et al.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1961), by Frances K. Pavel, illust. by Louis Segal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bear That Wasn't (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1946), by Frank Tashlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brownie: The Little Bear Who Liked People (Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros., c1939), by Gladys Malvern and Corinne Malvern (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Old Roly Bear Visits His Cousins (Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., c1926), by Samuel E. Lowe, illust. by H. Boylston Dummer (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Adventures of Buster Bear (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Arkansaw Bear: A Tale of Fanciful Adventure (New York: R. H. Russell; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1898), by Albert Bigelow Paine, illust. by Frank Ver Beck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Bear Who Never Was Cross (Chicago: P.F. Volland and Co., c1913), by Charlotte B. Herr, illust. by Frances Beem (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Bears of Blue River (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1901), by Charles Major (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Bears of Blue River (New York and London: Macmillan, 1908), by Charles Major, illust. by A. B. Frost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Buster Bear's Twins (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1923), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Father Bear and Bobby Bear (Racine, WI: Western Printing and Lithographing Co., ca. 1925), by Howard B. Famous, illust. by Hazel Frazee
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
• Georgey's Menagerie: The Bear (Boston: Graves and Young; New York: Sheldon and Co., c1864), by Madeline Leslie, illust. by John Andrew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Bear and His Friends (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, c1921), by Frances Margaret Fox, illust. by Frances Beem (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Tale of Cuffy Bear (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1915), by Arthur Scott Bailey, illust. by Harry L. Smith
  • illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Totally Bored Boris!, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Anook the Snow Princess, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Yellowstone National Park (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1923), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Traveling Bears Across the Sea: Their Travels and Adventures (New York: Barse and Hopkins, c1916), by Seymour Eaton, illust. by V. Floyd Campbell (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Celestial Bear Comes Down to Earth: The Bear Sacrifice Ceremony of the Munsee-Mahican in Canada As Related by Nekatcit (scientific publications #7; Reading, PA: Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, 1945), by Frank G. Speck and Jesse Moses, contrib. by Nekatcit (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild, by James Oliver Curwood, illust. by Frank B. Hoffman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Biography of a Grizzly (New York: D. Appleton and Co., n.d. (but 1927 or later)), by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Biography of a Grizzly and 75 Drawings (without the drawings; 1899), by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text)
• The Biography of a Grizzly and 75 Drawings (New York: The Century Co., 1900), by Ernest Thompson Seton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Kalak of the Ice (c1949), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Anook the Snow Princess, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Fauna of the National Parks of the United States: Ecology of the Coyote in the Yellowstone (1940), by Adolph Murie (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Adventures of Old Man Coyote (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1916), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by Harrison Cady
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Ecology of Stray Dogs: A Study of Free-Ranging Urban Animals (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2002), by Alan M. Beck (PDF at Purdue)

• Der Hund: Ein Mitarbeiter an den Werken des Menschen (in German; Vienna and Leipzig: A. Hartleben's Verlag, 1906), by Ernst Floessel
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Dog, by William Youatt, ed. by Elisha J. Lewis
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Dog Book: A Popular History of the Dog, With Practical Information as to Care and Management of House, Kennel, and Exhibition Dogs; and Descriptions of All the Important Breeds (2 volumes; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1906), by James Watson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Dogs and All About Them (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), by Robert Leighton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Dogs and All About Them, by Robert Leighton (Gutenberg text)
• Our Friend the Dog (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1913), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, illust. by Cecil Aldin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dogs From "Life" (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), ed. by Thomas L. Masson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anatomie Descriptive et Topographique du Chien (translated into French; Paris: C. Reinwald et cie, 1894), by Wilhelm Ellenberger and Hermann Baum, trans. by Joseph Deniker
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Systematische und Topographische Anatomie des Hundes (in German; Berlin: P. Parey, 1891), by Wilhelm Ellenberger and Hermann Baum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Dog, by William Youatt, ed. by Elisha J. Lewis
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• De Canibus Britannicis: Of Englishe Dogges (in Latin and English; from a Works edition of 1912), by John Caius, ed. by E. S. Roberts, trans. by Abraham Fleming (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (c1944), by Olaf Stapledon (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Tuffy Bean and the Lost Fortune (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1932), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tuffy Bean's Puppy Days (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1931), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Winter's Tale (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1961), by Jon Godden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baree, Son of Kazan, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)
• Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The Griffith and Rowland Press (Phoenix Edition), c1893), by Marshall Saunders (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: American Baptist Pub. Society, 1894), by Marshall Saunders, contrib. by Hezekiah Butterworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography (based on the 1894 Toronto edition, with added material from 20th century Jarrold editions), by Marshall Saunders, contrib. by Countess of Aberdeen and Hezekiah Butterworth, illust. by John Nicolson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Beautiful Joe's Paradise, or, the Island of Brotherly Love: A Sequel to "Beautiful Joe" (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1902), by Marshall Saunders, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bob, Son of Battle, by Alfred Ollivant (Gutenberg text)
• A Dog of Flanders, by Ouida
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Gutenberg text
• The History of Pompey the Little: or, The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1751), by Francis Coventry (page images here at Penn)
• Into His Own: The Story of an Airedale (Philadelphia: D. McKay, c1915), by Clarence Budington Kelland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeri: Erään Koiran Seikkailuja Etelämerellä (Jerry of the Islands in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1922), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Jerin Veli: Erään Koiran Elämä ja Seikkailut (Michael, Brother of Jerry, in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1922), by Jack London, trans. by Aune Tolvanen (Gutenberg text)
• Jerry of the Islands, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Kazan (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by James Oliver Curwood, illust. by Gayle Hoskins and Frank B. Hoffman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Kazan, the Wolf Dog, by James Oliver Curwood (HTML at hiwaay.net)
• Lad: A Dog (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1919), by Albert Payson Terhune (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Loveliness: A Story (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, illust. by Sarah S. Stilwell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Michael, Brother of Jerry, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1919), by James Oliver Curwood, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)
• Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs, by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Rab and His Friends, by John Brown (Gutenberg text)
• Rex (original magazine version), by D. H. Lawrence (HTML at Virginia)
• Tuffy Bean at Funny-Bone Farm, by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tuffy Bean's One-Ring Circus, by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Where the Blue Begins, by Christopher Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Snarleyyow, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)
• The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (multiple editions)
• Flush: A Biography (1933), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)

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