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• 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

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

• The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
• The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman (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 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)
• The Chisholm Trail and Other Routes (Bander, TX: Printed for Frontier Times by the Naylor Co., 1936), by T. U. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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 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)
• Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)
• The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman (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)
• 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

• 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)

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

• 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)

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

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

• 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)

• The Chisholm Trail and Other Routes (Bander, TX: Printed for Frontier Times by the Naylor Co., 1936), by T. U. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• Some Elements of Indiana's Population: or, Roads West and Their Early Travelers (Indianapolis: E. J. Hecker, 1908), by William E. Henry (HTML and page images at Indiana)

• 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)

• American Highways (partial serial archives)

• Moving Ahead: 1991 Surface Transportation Legislation (OTA-SET-496; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Two Old Christmas Stories of the Great North Road Now Known as the "Susquehanna Trail", Pennsylvania Highway Route No. 11 (Pennsylvania Folk-Lore Society pamphlet #10; Altoona, PA: Times-Tribune Press, 1930), by Henry W. Shoemaker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Old Roads From the Heart of New York: Journeys Today by Ways of Yesterday, Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Sarah Comstock (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Old Roads From the Heart of New York: Journeys Today by Ways of Yesterday, Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Sarah Comstock (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Milestones and the Old Post Road (reprinted from the Historical Guide to the City of New York, revised, 1915; New York: City History Club of New York, 1915), by George W. Nash and Hopper Striker Mott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.