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• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Diary of a Suicide (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1913), by Wallace E. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Suicide: Étude de Sociologie (in French; Paris; F. Alcan, 1897), by Émile Durkheim (Gutenberg text)
• Suicide and Its Antidotes: A Series of Anecdotes and Actual Narratives, With Suggestions on Mental Distress (London: J. Robins and Co., 1824), by Solomon Piggott
  • PDF at Stanford
  • Javascript-dependent page images at wellcomelibrary.org

• Report on the Death of Vincent W. Foster, Jr. (1997; with footnotes and appendix), by Kenneth Starr, contrib. by Patrick J. Knowlton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fbicover-up.com)

• Biathanatos: A Modern-Spelling Edition, With Introduction and Commentary (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1982), by John Donne, ed. by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Battin (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Biathanatos: A Declaration of That Paradoxe Or Thesis, That Selfe-Homicide Is Not So Naturally Sinne, That It May Never Be Otherwise, Wherein the Nature and the Extent of All Those Lawes, Which Seeme To Be Violated by This Act, Are Diligently Surveyed (London: Printed by J. Dawson, ca. 1644), by John Donne, ed. by John Donne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Biathanatos: Reproduced from the First Edition, With a Bibliographical Note (New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1930), by John Donne, contrib. by J. William Hebel (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Philosophical Dissertation Upon Death, Composed for the Consolation of the Unhappy (title page has "Phliosophical"; London: W. Mears, 1732), by Alberto Radicati
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul, by David Hume (HTML at anselm.edu)

• 2 B R 0 2 B (as published in Worlds of If Science Fiction, 1962), by Kurt Vonnegut (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Messiah (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1954), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (1988), by Barbara T. Gates (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Of Life and Death: Report of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, by Canada Parliament Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (HTML in Canada)

• Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative (2002), ed. by Sara K. Goldsmith, Terry C. Pellmar, Arthur M. Kleinman, and William E. Bunney (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Biathanatos: Reproduced from the First Edition, With a Bibliographical Note (New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1930), by John Donne, contrib. by J. William Hebel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biathanatos: A Declaration of That Paradoxe Or Thesis, That Selfe-Homicide Is Not So Naturally Sinne, That It May Never Be Otherwise, Wherein the Nature and the Extent of All Those Lawes, Which Seeme To Be Violated by This Act, Are Diligently Surveyed (London: Printed by J. Dawson, ca. 1644), by John Donne, ed. by John Donne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Eine Studie über den Selbstmord, von Jüdischem Standpunkte (extract from the journal 'Hamechaker', in German; Budapest: S. Grünhut, 1878), by Aron Roth
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Guilt, Folly, and Sources of Suicide, by Samuel Miller (HTML at Still Waters)

• The Guilt, Folly, and Sources of Suicide, by Samuel Miller (HTML at Still Waters)

• Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative (2002), ed. by Sara K. Goldsmith, Terry C. Pellmar, Arthur M. Kleinman, and William E. Bunney (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Of Life and Death: Report of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, by Canada Parliament Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (HTML in Canada)

• When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context, by New York State Task Force on Life and the Law (HTML at state.ny.us)

• The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy: Report of a Staff Investigative Group to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs Staff Investigative Group (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Death of Representative Leo J. Ryan, People's Temple, and Jonestown: Understanding a Tragedy (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs
  • HTML at sdsu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Performance of the Department of State and the American Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana, in the People's Temple Case (ca. 1979), by John H. Crimmins and Stanley S. Carpenter
  • HTML at sdsu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Sky Lighter (Ontario, CA: Chick Publications, c2003), by Jack T. Chick (page images with commentary at chick.com)

• Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (1988), by Barbara T. Gates (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India: Being a Collection of Opinions, For and Against (Mumbai: Printed at the "Voice of India" Printing Press, 1887), by Behramji M. Malabari
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, by Henry Nash Smith (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
• The States and Territories of the Great West (New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan; Buffalo: E. F. Beadle, 1856), by Jacob Ferris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Elevations of Certain Datum-Points on the Great Lakes and Rivers and in the Rocky Mountains, by James T. Gardiner (page images at MOA)

• At the Grass Roots: Comprising "The Christmas of 1883", and Other Vagrant Sketches (Topeka: Crane and Co., 1905), by Jay E. House, illust. by Albert Turner Reid
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Trans-Mississippi West: A Guide to its Periodical Literature (1811-1938) (Indiana University Social Science Series #3; Bloomington: Indiana University, c1942), by Oscar Osburn Winther (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion (Stillwater, OK: Barbed Wire Press, c1991), by Bill O'Neal (page images at Portal to Texas History)
• 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)
• 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)
• Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane
  • Gutenberg text
  • 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)
• My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by James Willard Schultz (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)
• Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871-1888), by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself (1907), by Nat Love (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Lone Star Cowboy: Being Fifty Years Experience in the Saddle as Cowboy, Detective and New Mexico Ranger, on Every Cow Trail in the Wooly Old West (1919), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and Prison Life, and the Only Authentic Account of the Northfield Raid Ever Published (Chicago: The Henneberyy Co., 1903), by Cole Younger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1907), by Emerson Hough
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans, by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)

• Over the Edge: Remapping the American West (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Valerie J. Matsumoto and Blake Allmendinger (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2000), ed. by Polly Stewart, Steve Siporin, Charles Wm. Sullivan, and Suzi Jones (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

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