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• California Desert Trails (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919), by J. Smeaton Chase (page images in Germany)

• California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride From Mexico to Oregon (1913), by J. Smeaton Chase (illustrated HTML at ventanawild.org)

• Red River Carts Trek Historic Pembina Trail (second printing; Warren, MN: W. Sheaf, ca. 1958), by E. Neil Mattson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park, Maine: History, Existing Conditions, and Analysis (2006), by Margie Coffin Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park, Maine: History, Existing Conditions, and Analysis (2006), by Margie Coffin Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Santa Fe Trail, by Kansas State Historical Society (HTML at kancoll.org)

• The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail (Guthrie, OK: Co-Operative Pub. Co., c1936), by Sam P. Ridings (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Longhorn: A Story of the Chisholm Trail (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, c1956), by Bruce Grant, illust. by Herman D. Giesen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska (1934), by Donald D. Brand (HTML at National Park Service)

• The Old North Trail: or, Life, Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians, by Walter McClintock
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• NPS Trails Management Handbook (Denver: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 1988), by Lennon Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
• The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by Francis Parkman, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman (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)

• The Girl Rough Riders: A Romantic and Adventurous Trail of Fair Rough Riders Through the Wonderland of Mystery and Silence (Boston: D. Estes and Co., c1903), by Prentiss Ingraham, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)

• NPS Trails Management Handbook (Denver: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 1988), by Lennon Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., 1922), by Ezra Meeker and Howard R. Driggs, illust. by F. N. Wilson (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
• A Day With the Cow Column in 1843 (Portland, OR: Champoeg Press, 1952), by Jesse A. Applegate, contrib. by Dorothy Johansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by Francis Parkman, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)
• The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman (Gutenberg text)
• Pioneer Tales of the Oregon Trail and of Jefferson County (Topeka: Crane and Co., 1912), by Charles Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lost Wagon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1955), by Jim Kjelgaard, illust. by Albert Orbaan and Gerald McCann (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Covered Wagon (with illustrations from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1922), by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Antoine of Oregon: A Story of the Oregon Trail (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1912), by James Otis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Old Apache Trail (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1921), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway, by Henry Inman, contrib. by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
• Santa Fe Trail, by Kansas State Historical Society (HTML at kancoll.org)
• The Second William Penn: A True Account of Incidents That Happened Along the Old Santa Fe Trail in the Sixties, by W. H. Ryus (Gutenberg text)
• Down the Santa Fé Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University press, 1926), by Susan Shelby Magoffin, ed. by Stella M. Drumm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commerce of the Prairies, by Josiah Gregg (HTML at kancoll.org)

• The Two Hunters, or, The Cañon Camp: A Romance of the Santa Fe Trail (New York: Beadle and Co., c1865), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Pioneering in the Northwest: Niobrara-Virginia City Wagon Road, by Albert M. Holman; Pioneers, Short Sketches of Charles Floyd, War Eagle, Theophile Bruguier, and Others, by Constant R. Marks (Sioux City, IA: Deitch and Lamar Co., 1924), by Albert M. Holman and C. R. Marks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Red River Carts Trek Historic Pembina Trail (second printing; Warren, MN: W. Sheaf, ca. 1958), by E. Neil Mattson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Great Salt Lake Trail, by Henry Inman and Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text)
• Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California (Salt Lake City: Western Printing Co., 1930), by Charles Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Longhorn: A Story of the Chisholm Trail (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, c1956), by Bruce Grant, illust. by Herman D. Giesen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indian Trails Centering at Black Hawk's Village (reprinted from the Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 2921), by John H. Hauberg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The Barefoot Hiker, by Richard Keith Frazine (illustrated HTML at bhthom.org)
• The Boy Scout's Hike Book (Garden City, NY:, Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by Edward Cave (page images at HathiTrust)

• Connecticut Walk Book (revised (second) edition, with ski trails; 1940), by Connecticut Forest and Park Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• The High School Boys' Training Hike: or, Making Themselves "Hard as Nails", by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills: or, The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains (Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., c1914), by Janet Aldridge (Gutenberg text)
• Boy Scouts on a Long Hike: or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps, by Archibald Lee Fletcher (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy Scouts on Lost Trail (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1920), by Thornton W. Burgess, illust. by C. S. Corson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pluck on the Long Trail: or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies, by Edwin L. Sabin, illust. by Clarence Rowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Walking the Watershed: The Border to Cape Wrath along Scotland's Great Divide (c1994), by Dave Hewitt, illust. by Chris Tyler (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Adventures of a Deaf-Mute, by William B. Swett (page images at MOA)

• The Far Side of the Sky, by Christopher E. Brennen (illustrated HTML at Caltech)
• Mountaineering Records (Liverpool: J. A. Thompson, 1907), by E. H. (Emily Hornby), ed. by Montague Leyland Hornby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Home in the Alps (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1892), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Alpine Climbing (London: George Newnes, 1904), by Francis Henry Gribble (PDF at djm.cc)
• Adventures on the Roof of the World (London: T. F. Unwin, 1907), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Call of the Snowy Hispar: A Narrative of Exploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier of India (London: Constable and Co., 1911), by William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman (page images at Google; US access only)
• The High Alps in Winter: or, Mountaineering in Search of Health (London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• High Life and Towers of Silence (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In the Ice world of Himálaya, Among the Peaks and Passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900), by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (page images at Google; US access only)
• Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: T. F. Unwin, 1908), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun: A Record of Pioneer-Exploration and Mountaineering in the Punjab Himalaya (London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (page images at Google; US access only)
• True Tales of Mountain Adventure, for Non-Climbers Young and Old (New York: Dutton, 1903), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Conquest of Mount Cook, and Other Climbs: An Account of Four Seasons' Mountaineering on the Southern Alps of New Zealand (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1915), by Freda Du Faur
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML in New Zealand
• A Search for the Apex of America: High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia, Including the Conquest of Huascarán; With Some Observations on the Country and People Below (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1911), by Annie S. Peck (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.