United States -- Discovery and exploration
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Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), by Emil Bessels, trans. by William Barr (PDF with commentary at Calgary)- The California Guide Book: Comprising Colonel Fremont's Geographical Account of Upper California; Major Emory's Overland Journey From Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in California, Including Parts of the Arkansas Del Norte and Gila Rivers; and Captain Fremont's Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, and to Oregon and North California; Accompanied with a Map of Various Routes, and a Map of the Gold Regions (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; Philadelphia: G. S. Appleton, 1849), by John Charles Frémont and William H. Emory (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820 (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823), by Edwin James
- Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852 (Washington: B. Tucker, Senate printer, 1854), by Randolph B. Marcy and George B. McClellan
- Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852 (House of Representatives printing; Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1854), by Randolph B. Marcy and George B. McClellan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and His Narrative of Explorations and Adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California, by John Charles Frémont (page images at MOA)
- Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, From Fort Leavenworth in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers (Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848), by William H. Emory (page images in Germany)
- Report of a Reconnaissance of the Black Hills of Dakota, Made in the Summer of 1874, by William Ludlow (page images at MOA)
- Report of an Expedition Up the Yellowstone River Made in 1875, by United States War Department (page images at MOA)
- Report of the Explorations in 1873 of the Colorado of the West and Its Tributaries, by Smithsonian Institution (page images at MOA)
- Report of the Survey of the North and Northwest Lakes, by George Gordon Meade (page images at MOA)
- Canyons of the Colorado, by John Wesley Powell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (page images in Germany)
- Field Notes (1889), by Robert Brewster Stanton (frame-dependent page images at NYPL)
- First Across the Continent: The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6, by Noah Brooks
- Narrative of the North Polar Expedition, by United States Navy (page images at MOA)
- Report of a Reconnaissance from Carroll, Montana Territory, on the Upper Missouri, to the Yellowstone National Park, and Return, Made in the Summer of 1875, by William Ludlow (page images at MOA)
- Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858, by Joseph C. Ives (page images at MOA)
- Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux: Being the Narrative of an Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in the Years 1860, 1861 and 1862 (New York : Harper, 1865), by Charles Francis Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, by Howard Stansbury (page images at MOA)
- Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at loc.gov)
- Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers, by Captain L. Sitgreaves (Washington: R. Armstrong, 1853), by United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers
- The First Discovered City of Cibola (reprinted from The American Anthropologist; Washington: Judd and Detweiler, printers, 1895), by Frederick Webb Hodge
- Hell or High Water: James White's Disputed Passage Through Grand Canyon, 1867 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Eilean Adams (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Rezánov, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, contrib. by William Marion Reedy (Gutenberg text)
- The Conquest of Florida by Hernando de Soto (New York: G. P. Putnam and Son, 1868), by Theodore Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Luna Papers: Documents Relating to the Expedition of Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano for the Conquest of La Florida in 1559-1561 (2 volumes; Deland: Florida), ed. by Herbert Ingram Priestley
- Hernando de Soto. The Adventures Encountered and the Route Pursued By the Adelantado During His March Through the Territory Embraced Within the Present Geographical Limits of the State of Georgia (Savannah, GA: Printed for the author by J. H. Estill, 1880), by Charles C. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, Rivers (Philadelphia, 1810), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
- Notes Taken During the Expedition Commanded by Capt. R. B. Marcy, U. S. A., Through Unexplored Texas, in the Summer and Fall of 1854 (Philadelphia: Hayes and Zell, 1856), by W. B. Parker
- Over the Rim: The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-1850 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1999), ed. by William B. Smart and Donna Toland Smart (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
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Filed under: United States- A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)
- River Basin Surveys Papers (partial serial archives)
- Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States (looseleaf series from the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1950s), ed. by James B. Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
- Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)
- America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, ca. 2002), ed. by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman (PDF with commentary at fpri.org)
- Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002), by David E. Johnson, Karl P. Mueller, and William H. Taft (PDF files at rand.org)
- Hearings, Relating to H.R. 959, Amending the Internal Security Act of 1950 (Obstruction of Armed Forces) (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)
- Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
- Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
- Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
- The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe
- Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
- Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
- Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
- Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
- Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
- The Republican Court: or, American Society in the Days of Washington (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
- Something of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
- The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
- Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
- The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
- The Life of Jacob Persinger, Who Was Taken by the Shawnee Indians When An Infant; With a Short Account of the Indian Troubles in Missouri, and a Sketch of the Adventures of the Author (reprint; originally published 1861), by Joseph Persinger (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon
- The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
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