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• Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
• Carson, Kit, 1809-1868

• 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)

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

• 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)
• Memories of Buffalo Bill (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1919), by Louisa Frederici Cody and Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• 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)
• Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Historical Sketches and Daily Review (souvenir booklet; ca. 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Historical Sketches and Programme (souvenir program; 1896) (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)
• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore (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)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, "White Beaver", Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides (St. Louis and Philadelphia: Historical Pub. Co., 1883), by James W. Buel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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
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• 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)

• A Catalog of Dime Novel Material, Including a Section on Buffalo Bill (Red Bank, NJ: J.A. Hayes, 1936), by John Alexander Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, From Facts Narrated by Himself (New York: W. R. C. Clark and Co., 1858), by De Witt C. Peters, contrib. by Kit Carson, illust. by Arthur Lumley
  • multiple formats at Google
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• 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)
• The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone; Crockett; Carson (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains: or, The Last Voice From the Plains, by William F. Drannan (Gutenberg text)

• With Carson and Frémont (second edition; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1913), by Edwin L. Sabin, illust. by Charles H. Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

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• Rolf in the Woods, by Ernest Thompson Seton (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)

• Tom Willoughby's Scouts: A Story of the War in German East Africa (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1919), by Herbert Strang, illust. by Walter Paget (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Dave Dawson, Flight Lieutenant (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1941), by Robert Sidney Bowen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Simon Kenton: His Life and Period, 1755-1836 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1930), by Edna Kenton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Simon Kenton: His Life and Period, 1755-1836 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1930), by Edna Kenton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Simon Kenton, or, The Scout's Revenge: An Historical Novel (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by James Weir (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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

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