Women pioneers -- Biography
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Women pioneers -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Women pioneers -- Illinois -- Biography
- Women pioneers -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography
- Women pioneers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography
- Women pioneers -- Ontario -- Biography
- Women pioneers -- Prairie Provinces -- Biography
- Women pioneers -- United States -- Biography
- Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Winter Quarters: The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1996), by Mary Haskin Parker Richards, ed. by Maurine Carr Ward
- Across the Plains in 1844, by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)
- Roughing It in the Bush (second edition, with additions, 2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1852), by Susanna Moodie
- Roughing It in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie, ed. by Andrew Sly (Gutenberg text)
- Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada (first edition; London: R. Bentley, 1852), by Susanna Moodie
- Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1854), by Susanna Moodie
- Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada (new and revised edition; Toronto and Montreal: Hunter, Rose and Co.; Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1871), by Susanna Moodie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2010), by S. Leigh Matthews (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- Woman on the American Frontier (Hartford: S.S. Scranton and Co., 1879), by William Worthington Fowler (page images at MOA)
- Woman on the American Frontier (Hartford: S.S. Scranton, 1881), by William Worthington Fowler
- Jessie Benton Frémont, A Woman Who Made History (San Francisco: Printed by J. H. Nash, 1935), by Catherine Coffin Phillips (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)
- Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane
- 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)
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Filed under: Women pioneers -- California -- Correspondence- The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 (San Francisco: T. C. Russell, 1922), by Dame Shirley, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Tenderfoot Bride (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1927), by Clarice E. Richards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Tenderfoot Bride (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1924), by Clarice E. Richards (page images at Harvard)
- Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1907), by Randall Parrish, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Crux: A Novel (New York: Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Light of Western Stars, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
- Molly McDonald: A Tale of the Old Frontier (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1912), by Randall Parrish, illust. by E. L. Blumenschein (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- My Ántonia (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), by Willa Cather, ed. by Charles Mignon, contrib. by James Leslie Woodress, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (illustrated HTML at unl.edu)
- From the West to the West: Across the Plains to Oregon (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1905), by Abigail Scott Duniway
- Lords of the North (Toronto: W. Briggs, ca. 1900), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The New Penelope, and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor (Gutenberg text)
- Betty Zane, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
- Betty Zane (with illustrations by the author; New York: C. Francis Press, c1903), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
- Betty Zane (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Zane Grey, illust. by Louis F. Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Burning Daylight, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
- Burning Daylight (New York: The Daily Worker, c1910), by Jack London (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Klondyken Kuningas (Burning Daylight in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London, trans. by Kerttu Emilia Simolin (Gutenberg text)
- The Last Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
- My Ántonia (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Willa Cather, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (HTML and PDF at Elegant Ebooks)
- My Antonia, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg text)
- O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
- Onnen Suosikki (Burning Daylight in Finnish; Helsinki: Lindstedt'in Antikvaarinen Kirjakauppa, 1912), by Jack London, trans. by Kerttu Emilia Simolin (Gutenberg text)
- The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
- A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Winter Quarters: The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1996), by Mary Haskin Parker Richards, ed. by Maurine Carr Ward
- The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters From the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America (London: C. Knight, 1836), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill
- Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2010), by S. Leigh Matthews (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- 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
- Deadwood Dick on Deck: or, Calamity Jane, the Heroine of Whoop-Up (Beadles Pocket Library, v5 #57; New York: Beadle and Adams, c1885), by Edward L. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
- A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
- Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
- Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
- The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
- Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
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