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The American West in Fiction and History

<b>The American West</b> <i>updated 5/3/2005</i>
The American West updated 5/3/2005
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From the Oregon Trail to Jack London's tales of the Alaskan frontier, this CD contains the full text of 377 books -- works of fiction and history dealing with the American West.

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Table of contents:

The American West in Fiction

Anonymous

  • The Log-Cabin Lady

Andy Adams

  • Cattle Brands, 1906
  • Log of a Cowboy
  • Reed Anthony, Cowboy, 1907
  • A Texas Matchmaker, 1904
  • Wells Brothers, 1911

Joseph Altsheler

  • Free Rangers
  • The Guns of Shiloh
  • Hunters of the Hills
  • The Masters of the Peaks
  • The Rulers of the Lakes
  • Scouts of the Valley
  • The Shadow of the North

Ada Woodruff Anderson

  • The Rim of the Desert, 1915

Gertrude Atherton

  • The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
  • The Doomswoman
  • The Splendid Idle Forties, 1902

Mary Austin

  • The Land of Little Rain
  • The Trail Book

Robert Michael Ballantyne

  • The Dog Crusoe and His Master

Nettie Garmer Barker

  • Kansas Women in Literature

Amelia Barr

  • Remember the Alamo

Rex Beach

  • Pardners, 1904

Robert Bird

  • Nick of the Woods

Harold Blindloss

  • Winston of the Prairie

Captain Ralph Bonehill

  • Guns and Snowshoes

B.M. Bower (= Bertha M. Sinclair = husband of Bertrand Sinclair)

  • Cabin Fever
  • Casey Ryan
  • Chip of the Flying U
  • Cow-Country
  • The Flying U's Last Stand
  • The Flying U Ranch
  • Good Indian
  • The Gringos
  • The Heritage of the Sioux
  • Her Prairie Knight
  • Jean of the Lazy A
  • Lonesome Land
  • The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
  • The Long Shadow
  • The Lure of Dim Trails
  • The Phantom Herd, 1916
  • The Range Dwellers
  • Rowdy of the Cross L
  • Starr of the Desert
  • The Thunder Bird
  • Trail of the White Mule
  • The Uphill Climb

Earl Wayland Bowman

  • The Ramblin' Kid

Max Brand

  • Alcatraz
  • Bull Hunter
  • The Rangeland Averger
  • Trailin'

Marthy Carnary Burk (AKA Calamity Jane)

  • The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Herself (article)

Hezikiah Butterworth

  • The Log School-House on the Columbia

Willa Cather

  • My Antonia
  • O Pioneers!
  • One of Ours
  • The Song of the Lark

H.A. Cody

  • Jess of the Rebel Trail

John Esten Cooke

  • The Last of the Foresters

James Fenimore Cooper (some, but not all of these works relate to the American West)

  • Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
  • The Deerslayer
  • Homeward Bound
  • Jack Tier or the Florida Reef
  • The Lake Gun (story)
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • The Monnikins
  • Ned Myers
  • New York (story)
  • Oak Openings
  • The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea
  • The Pioneers
  • The Prairie
  • The Spy
  • Tales for Fifteen (Imagination and Heart) (writing under the pseudonym "Jane Morgan")
  • The Wept of Wish-Ton Wish, 1871
  • Wyandotte
about Cooper
  • James Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain

Isabella Crawford

  • Old Spookses' Pass (poem)

Ridgwell Cullum

  • The Story of the Foss River Ranch

James Oliver Curwood

  • The Alaskan
  • The Danger Trail, 1910

Augusta Evans

  • Inez: a Tale of the Alamo

J.W. de Forest

  • Overland, 1871

Mary Mapes Dodge

  • Po-No-Kah: an Indian Tale of Long Ago, 1903

William F. Drannan

  • Captain W.F. Drannan Chief of Scouts by himself, 1910
  • Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains

Charles Eastman

  • Indian Boyhood
  • Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
  • Old Indian Days
  • Soul of the Indian

Edward Ellis (= Lieutenant R.H. Jayne)

  • The Cave in the Mountain
  • Cowmen and Rustlers
  • The Daughter of the Chieftain
  • In the Pecos Country
  • The Life of Kit Carson
  • The Lost Trail

Eugene Field

  • A Little Book of Western Verse, 1889

O.P. Fitzgerald

  • California Sketches, second series

Jesse Graham Flower

  • Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert

John Fox, Jr.

  • A Cumberland Vendetta
  • Hell fer Sartain and Other Stories
    • On Hell-Fer-Sartain Creek
    • Through the Gap
    • A Trick o' Trade
    • Grayson's Baby
    • Courtin' on Cutshin
    • The Message in the Sand
    • The Senator's Last Trade
    • Preachin' on Kingdom-Come
    • The Passing of Abraham Shivers
    • A Purple Rhodadendron
  • A Knight of the Cumberland
  • The Last Stetson (story)
  • The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
  • A Mountain Europa
  • The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Zane Grey

  • Betty Zane
  • The Border Legion
  • The Call of the Canyon
  • Desert Gold, a Romance of the Border
  • The Desert of Wheat
  • Heritage of the Desert
  • The Last of the Plainsmen
  • The Last Trail
  • The Light of Western Stars
  • The Lone Star Ranger
  • The Man of the Forest
  • The Mysterious Rider
  • The Rainbow Trail
  • The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories
    • The Redheaded Outfield
    • The Rube
    • The Rube's Pennant
    • The Rube's Honeymoon
    • The Rube's Waterloo
    • Breaking into Fast Company
    • The Knocker
    • The Winning Ball
    • False Colors
    • The Manager of Madden's Hill
    • Old Well-Well
  • Riders of the Purple Sage
  • The Spirit of the Border, a Romance of Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley
  • Tales of Lonely Trails, 1922
  • To the Last Man
  • The U.P. Trail
  • Wildfire
  • The Young Forester

John Habberton

  • Romance of California Life

H. Irving Handcock

  • The Young Engineers in Arizona

Bret Harte

  • The Argonauts of North Liberty
  • The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
    • The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
    • Johnnyboy
    • Young Robin Gray
    • The Sheriff of Sisk You
    • A Rose of Glenbogie
    • The Mystery of the Hacienda
    • Chu Chu
    • My First Book
  • By Shore and Sedge
  • Clarence
  • Colonel Starbottle's Client
    • Colonel Starbottle's Client
    • The Postmistress of Laurel Run
    • A Night at "Hays"
    • Johnson's "Old Woman"
    • The New Assistant at Pine Clearing School
    • In a Pioneer Restaurant
    • A Treasure of the Galleon
    • Out of a Pioneer's Trunk
  • Complete Poetical Works
  • Condensed Novels
    • Handsome is as Handsome Does
    • Lothow, or the Adventures of a Young Gentelman in Search of a Religion
    • Muck-a-Muck, a Modern Indian Novel, after James Fennimore Cooper
    • Terence Denville
    • Selina Sedilia
    • The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen, after Dumas
    • Mis Mix, after Charlotte Bronte
    • Guy Heavystone, or "Entire"
    • Mr. Midshipman Breezy
    • John Jenkins, or the Smoker Reformed
    • No Title, after Wilke Collins
      • Mary Jones's Narrative
      • The Slim Young Man's Story
      • No. 27 Limehouse Road
      • Count Moscow's Narrative
      • Dr. Diggs's Statement
    • Mary McGillup, a Southern Novel, after Belle Boyd
  • Cressy
  • The Crusade of the Excelsior
  • Devil's Ford
  • Dickens in Camp
  • A Drift from Redwood Camp (story)
  • Drift from Two Shores
    • The Man on the Beach
    • Two Saints of the Foot-Hills
    • "Jinny"
    • Roger Catron's Friend
    • "Who Was My Quiet Friend?"
    • A Ghost of the Sierras
    • The Hoodlum Band
    • The Man Whose Yoke Was Not Easy
    • My Friend, the Tramp
    • The Man from Solano
    • The Office Seeker
    • A Sleeping-Car Experience
    • Morning on the Avenue
    • With the Entrees
  • Flip: a California Romance (story)
  • Found at Blazing Star (story)
  • From Sand Hill to Pine
    • A Niece of Snapshot Harry's
    • A Treasure of the Redwoods
    • A Belle of Canada City
    • What Happened at the Fonda
    • A Jack and Jill of the Sierras
    • Mr. Bilson's Housekeeper
  • Frontier Stories
  • The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Stories
    • The Heritage of Dedlow March
    • A Knight-Errant of the Foot-Hills
    • A Secret of Telegraph Hill
    • Captain Jim's Friend
  • In the Carquinez Woods
  • In a Hollow of the Hills
  • Jeff Briggs's Love Story
  • Legends and Tales
    • The Legend of Monte Del Diablo
    • The Adventure of Padre Vicentio
    • The Legend of Devil's Point
    • The Devil and the Broker
    • The Ogress of Silver Land
    • The Ruins of San Francisco
    • At Night at Wingdam
  • The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales
  • Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
  • Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands
    • Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands
    • How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar
    • The Princess Bob and Her Friends
    • The Iliad of Sandy Bar
    • Mr. Thompson's Prodigal
    • The Romance of Madrono Hollow
    • The Poet of Sierra Flat
    • The Christmas Gift that Came to Rupert
  • A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready
  • New Burlesques
    • Rupert the Resembler, after Rupert of Hentzau and Prisoner of Zenda
    • The Stolen Cigar Case by A. Co__n D__le [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
    • Golly and the Christian, or the Minx and the Manxman by H__ll C__ne
    • The Adventures of John Longbowe, Yeoman, Being a Modern-Antique Realistic Romance
    • Dan'l Borem by E. N__s W__t__t
    • Stories Three by R_dy__d K_pl__g [Rudyard Kipling]
    • "Zut-ski" the Problem of a Wicked Feme Sole by M__r__e C__r__lli
  • On the Frontier
  • Openings in the Old Trail
    • A Mercury of the Foot-Hills
    • Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
    • The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel
    • A Buckeye Hoollow Inheritance
    • The Reincarnation of Smith
    • Lanty Foster's Mistake
    • An Ali Baba of the Sierras
    • Miss Peggy's Proteges
    • The Goddess of Excelsior
  • A Phyllis of the Sierras
  • The Queen of the Pirate Isle (story)
  • Sally Dows
    • Sally Dows
    • The Conspiracy of Mrs. Bunker
    • The Transformation of Buckeye Camp
    • Their Uncle from California
  • Salomy Jane
  • A Sappho of Green Springs
  • Snow-Bound at Eagle's
  • Stories in Light and Shadow
    • "Unser Karl"
    • Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy
    • See Yup
    • The Desborough Connections
    • Salomy Jane's Kiss

      • The Man and the Mountain
      The Passing of Enriquez
  • The Story of a Mine
  • Susy, a Story of the Plains
  • Tales of the Argonauts
  • Tales of Trail and Town
    • The ancestors of Peter Atherly
    • Two Americans
    • The Judgment of Bolinas Plain
    • The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick
    • A Night on the Divide
    • The Youngest Prospector in Calaveras
    • A Tale of Three Truants
  • Thankful Blossom
  • The Three Partners
  • Trent's Trust and Other Stories
    • Trent's Trust
    • Mr. MacGlowrie's Widow
    • A Ward of Colonel Starbottle
    • Prosper's "Old Mother"
    • The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin
    • A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge
    • Dick Boy'es Business Car
  • Two Men of Sandy Bar
  • Urban Sketches
    • A Venerable Impostor
    • From a Balcony
    • Melons
    • Surprising Adventures of Master Charles Summerton
    • Sidewalkings
    • A Boy's Dog
    • Charitable Reminiscences
    • "Seeing the Steamer Off"
    • Neighborhoods I Have Moved From
    • My Suburban Residence
    • On a Vulgar Little Boy
  • Waiting for the Ship
  • A Waif of the Plains
  • A Ward of the Golden Gate
works about Bret Harte
  • A Belated Guest [Bret Harte] by William Dean Howells (essay)
  • Literary Friends and Acquaintances: a Belated Guest by William Dean Howells

Mrs. Mary Jane Holmes

  • Homestead on the Hillside

Emerson Hough

  • 54-40 or Fight
  • The Covered Wagon
  • The Girl at the Halfway House
  • Heart's Desire
  • The Law of the Land
  • The Mississippi Bubble
  • The Purchase Price
  • The Way of a Man

Helen Hunt Jackson (=H.H.)

  • Between Whiles, 1888
  • Ramona

Clarence Kelland

  • Scattergood Baines

Frances Parkman Keyes

  • The Old Gray Homestead, 1919

Mrs. John H. Kinzie

  • Wau-Bun: The Early Days in the Northwest, 1873

Henry Herbert Knibbs

  • Jim Waring

Andrew Henry Lewis

  • Wolfville Nights, 1902

Merriweather Lewis and William Clark

  • Journals of Lewis and Clark

Will Lillinbridge

  • Where the Trail Divides

Jack London (some, but not all, of these works related to the American West)

  • Adventure
  • Before Adam
  • Brown Wolf and Other Stories
  • Call of the Wild
  • The Faith of Men
    • A Relic of the Pliocene
    • A Hyperborean Brew
    • The Faith of Men
    • Too Much Gold
    • The One Thousand Dozen
    • The Marriage of Lit-lit
    • Batard
    • The Story of Jees Uck
  • The Game (story)
  • The Jacket
  • John Barleycorn
  • Lost Face
    • Lost Face
    • Trust
    • To Build a Fire
    • That Spot
    • Flush of Gold
    • The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
    • The Wit of Porportuk
  • Martin Eden
  • Michael, Brother of Jerry
  • Moon-Face and Other Stories
    • Moon-Face
    • The Leopard Man's Story
    • Local Color
    • Amateur Night
    • The Minions of Midas
    • The Shadow and the Flash
    • All Gold Canyon
    • Planchette
  • The Night-Born
    • The Night-Born
    • The Madness of John Harned
    • When the World Was Young
    • The Benefit of the Doubt
    • Winged Blackmail
    • Bunches of Knuckles
    • War
    • Under the Deck Awnings
    • To Kill a Man
    • The Mexican
  • Revolution and Other Essays
  • Sea Wolf
  • Son of the Wolf
    • The White Silence
    • The Son of the Wolf
    • The Men of Forty Mile
    • In a Far Country
    • To the Man on the Trail
    • The Priestly Prerogative
    • The Wisdom of the Trail
    • The Wife of a King
    • An Odyssey of the North
  • The Strength of the Strong
    • The Strength of the Strong
    • South of the Slot
    • The Unparalleled Invasion
    • The Enemy of All the World
    • The Dream of Debs
    • The Sea-Farmer
    • Samuel
  • Tales of the Fish Patrol
  • Tales of the Klondyke
    • The God of His Fathers
    • The Great Interrogation
    • Which Make Men Remember
    • Siwash
    • The Man with the Gash
    • Jan, the Unrepentant
    • Grit of Women
    • Where the Trail Forks
    • A Daughter of the Aurora
    • At the Rainbow's End
    • The Scorn of Women
  • The Valley of the Moon
  • War of the Classes
  • When God Laughs and Other Stories
    • When God Laughs
    • The Apostate
    • A Wicked Woman
    • Just Meat
    • Created He Them
    • The Chinago
    • Make Westing
    • Semper Idem
    • A Nose for the King
    • The "Francis Spaight"
    • A Curious Fragment
    • A Piece of Steak
  • White Fang

Frances Lynde

  • The Taming of Red Butte Western

John Mackie

  • The Rising of the Red Man

Edward Marshall and Charles Dazy

  • In Old Kentucky

Margaret Hill McCarter

  • Vanguards of the Plains

John Muir

  • The Grand Canon of the Colorado
  • The Mountains of California, 1894
  • Steep Trails: California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon
  • Stickeen
  • Travels in Alaska in 1879, 1880, and 1990
  • The Yosemite

Joseph Munk

  • Arizona Sketches

Frank Norris

  • Blix
  • A Deal in Wheat and other Stories
  • McTeague, a Story of San Francisco
  • Moran of the Lady Letty
  • The Octopus, a Story of California
  • The Pit
  • Vandover and the Brute

Pat O'Cotter

  • Rhymes of a Roughneck, 1918

Frederick Palmer

  • Over the Pass

Randall Parrish

  • Keith of the Border: a Tale of the Plain

Frank Gee Patchin

  • The Pony Rider Boys in Montana
  • The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico
  • The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks
  • The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies

William MacLeod Raine

  • A Daughter of the Dons
  • Mavericks
  • A Texas Ranger

Frederic Remington

  • Crooked Trails
  • The Way of an Indian

Eugene Rhodes

  • Copper Streak Trail

Bertrand Sinclair (husband of B.M. [Bertha] Bower)

  • Big Timber

F. Berkeley Smith

  • The Lady of Big Shanty

Mark Twain (some, but not all, of these works relate to the American West)

  • The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
    • The $30,000 Bequest
    • A Dog's Tale
    • Was It Heaven?  Or Hell?
    • A Cure for the Blues
    • The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
    • The Californian's Tale
    • A Helpless Situation
    • A Telephonic Conversation
    • Edward Mills and George Benton:  A Tale
    • The Five Boons of Life
    • The First Writing-machines
    • Italian without a Master
    • Italian with Grammar
    • A Burlesque Biography
    • How to Tell a Story
    • General Washington's Negro Body-servant
    • Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
    • An Entertaining Article
    • A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
    • Amended Obituaries
    • A Monument to Adam
    • A Humane Word from Satan
    • Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
    • Advice to Little Girls
    • Post-mortem Poetry
    • The Danger of Lying in Bed
    • Portrait of King William III
    • Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
    • Extracts from Adam's Diary
    • Eve's Diary
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • A Dog's Tale (story)
  • A Double Barrelled Detective (story)
  • Extract's from Adam's Diary (story)
  • Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (story)
  • Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (essay)
  • The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
  • A Horse's Tale (story)
  • How to Tell a Story and Others (stories and essays)
    • How to Tell a Story
    • The Wounded Soldier
    • The Golden Arm
    • Mental Telegraphy Again
    • The Invalid's Story
  • In Defence of Harriet Shelley (essay)
  • Life on the Mississippi
  • The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
    • The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
    • My First Lie, and How I Got Out of IT
    • The Exquimaux Maiden's Romance
    • Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
    • Is He Living or Is He Dead?
    • My Debut as a Literary Person
    • At the Appetite-Cure
    • Concerning the Jews
    • From the 'London Times' of 1904
    • About Play-Acting
    • Travelling with a Reformer
    • Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
    • Luck
    • The Captain's Story
    • Stirring Times in Austria
    • Meisterschaft
    • My Boyhood Dreams
    • To the Above Old People
    • In Memoriam -- Olivia Susan Clemens
  • The Mysterious Stranger (stories)
    • The Mysterious Stranger
    • A Fable
    • Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
    • The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
  • Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • Rambling Idle Excursion (story)
  • Roughing It
  • Sketches New and Old
    • My Watch
    • Political Economy
    • The Jumping Frog
    • Journalism in Tennessee
    • The Story of the Bad Little Boy
    • The Story of the Good Little Boy
    • A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore
    • Niagara
    • Answers to Correspondents
    • To Raise Poultry
    • Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
    • My First Literary Venture
    • How the Author was Sold in Newark
    • The Office Bore
    • Johnny Greer
    • The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
    • The Case of George Fisher
    • Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
    • The Judges "Spirited Woman"
    • Information Wanted
    • Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys and Girld
    • My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
    • A Fashion Item
    • Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
    • A Fine Old Man
    • Science vs. Luck
    • The Late Benjamin Franklin
    • Mr. Bloke's Item
    • A Medieval Romance
    • Petition Concerning Copyright
    • After-Dinner Speech
    • Lionizing Murderers
    • A New Crime
    • A Curious Dream
    • A True Story
    • The Siamese Twins
    • Speech a thte Scottish Banquet in London
    • A Ghost Story
    • The Capitoline Venus
    • Speech on Accident Insurance
    • John Chinaman in New York
    • How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
    • The Petrified Man
    • My Bloody Massacre
    • The Undertaker's Chat
    • Concerning Chambermaids
    • Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
    • "After" Jenkins
    • About Barbers
    • "Party Cries" in Ireland
    • The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation
    • History Repeats Itself
    • Honored as a Curiosity
    • First Interview with Artemus Ward
    • Cannibalism in the Cars
    • The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
    • The Widow's Protext
    • The Scriptural Panoramist
    • Curing a Cold
    • A Curious Pleasure Excursion
    • Running for Governor
    • A Mysterious Visit
  • Speeches
  • The Stolen White Elephant (story)
  • Those Extraordinary Twins (story)
  • Tom Sawyer, Detective (story)
  • 4 books about Mark Twain
    • Complete Letters of Mark Twain 1853-1910, arranged with comment by Albert Bigelow Paine
    • Mark Twain: A Biography (in three volumes) by Albert Bigelow Paine
    • The Boy's Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine
    • Literary Friends and Acquaintances: My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells
  • essay by Mark Twain about Mark Twain
    • A Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain

Frank Webster

  • Comrades of the Saddle
  • Cowboy Dave

Edward Wheeler

  • Deadwood Dick

Stewart Edward White

  • Arizona Nights
  • The Blazed Trail
  • The Call of the North
  • The Claim Jumpers
  • The Forest
  • The Forty-Niners
  • The Grey Dawn
  • The Land of Footprints
  • The Leopard Woman
  • The Mountains
  • The Riverman
  • The Silent Places

William Patterson White

  • The Heart of the Range

Harry Leon Wilson

  • The Lions of the Lord

Owen Wister

  • The Jimmyjohn Boss
  • Lady Baltimore
  • Lin McLean
  • Mother (short)
  • Padre Ignacio (short)
  • Philosophy 4: a Story of Harvard University (short)
  • A Straight Deal
  • The Virginian

Clarence Young

  • Jack Ranger's Western Trip

The American West in History

  • Early Frontier
    • Original Narratives of Early American History
    • Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman
    • Pioneers of the Old South by Mary Johnston
    • The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, The Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky 1740-1790, by Archibald Henderson
    • Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone by John Filson (short)
    • Davy Crockett by Abbott
    • The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt
      • volume 1 -- 1769-1776
      • volume 2-- 1777-1783
      • volume 3 -- 1784-1790
      • volume 4 -- 1791-1807

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  • Early Republic
    • Adventures of a Forty-Niner by Daniel Knower
    • The American Republic by O.A. Brownson
    • Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly
    • Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
    • Fifteen Thousand. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon, and California, 1852, by Colonel J.C. Fremont
    • History of Louisiana by Antoine Simon Le Page Du Praz
    • The Life and Adventures of Major Roger Sherman Potter by Pheleg van Trusedale
    • Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the northwest in the autumn of 1856 by C.C. Andrews
    • Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner
    • On the Seminole War, speech by Henry Clay, January 19, 1819 (short)
    • The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
    • Texas, a pamphlet, 1836
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  • After Civil War
    • Army Letters from an Officer's Wife 1871-1888 by Frances Roe
    • The Bark Covered House, a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Ral Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan (1876) by William Nowlin
    • A Backward Glance at Eighty by Charles Murdock
    • Bunch Grass: a Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Rancy by Horace Amnesty Vachell
    • Canyons of the Colorado by J.W. Powell
    • Christopher Carson by John Abbott
    • Conditions in Utah by Thomas Kearns
    • The Discovery of Yellowstone Park by Nathaniel Langford
    • Four Months in a Sneak-Box: a Boat Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers 1874-75 by Nathaniel Bishop
    • The Great Lone Land by Colonel W.F. Butler
    • History of the Donner Party by C. F. McGlashan
    • Expedition of the Donner Party by Eliaz P. Donner Houghton
    • John Stoddard's Lectures volume 10
    • Klondyke Nuggets by Joseph Ladue
    • The Life of William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), by himself, 1879
    • Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (later edition)
    • Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona by Sylvester Mowry
    • Mormon Settlement of Arizona, 1921, by James McClintock
    • Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Grove
    • Reminiscences of a Pioneer by Colonel William Thompson, 1912
    • Reiminiscences of Pioneer Days in St.l Paul by Frank Moore
    • The Second Willliam Penn by W.H. Ryus, 1913
    • Thiry-one Years on the Plains and in the Mountains by William F. Drannan
    • When Buffalo Ran by George Grimell
    • Woman on the American Frontier by William Fowler
  • Native American
    • Aboriginal America  by Jacob Abbott
    • Alaska Indian Dictionary, compiled by Charles Lee, 1896
    • American Hero Myths: a Study int he Native Religions of the Western Continent by Daniel Brinton
    • Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiah or Black Hawk by Black Hawk
    • American Indian Stories by Zitkala-sa [Gertrude Bronnin]
    • Blackfoot Lodge Tales by George Grinnell
    • Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (short)
    • About the Iroquois Constitution (short)
    • Indian Games and Dances by Alice Fletcher
    • Legends of the Northwest by H. L. Gordon
    • Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson
    • Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin
    • Old Indian Legends, by Zitkala-Sa
    • On the Trail of Pontiac by Edward Stratemeyer
    • The Problem of Ohio Mounds Cyrus Thomas
    • The Second William Penn. An account of incidents along the old Santa Fe Trail in the 600s. 1913 by W.H Ryers
    • Sequoyah (from Harper's New Monthly) (short)
    • Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians by J.B. MacKenzie
  • Historical Documents
      • Northwest Ordinance 1787
      • Treaty of Greenville 1795
  • Special Topics
    • California
      • California 1849-1913 by L. H. Woolley
      • California's 1909 Legislature by Franklin Hichborn
      • California and Californians by David Starr Jordan (short)
      • California Romantic and Resourceful by John Davis
      • California Birthday Party edited by George Jones, 1907
      • The Famous Missions of California by William Henry Hudson
      • History of California by Helen Elliot Bandini
      • In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warrne Stoddard
      • The Lure of San Franciso by Elizabeth Gray Porter and Mabel Thayer Gray
      • Out of Doors: California and Oregon by J.A. Graves, 1912
      • The Old Franciscan Missions of California by George Wharton James
      • Starr King in California by William Simmonds
      • Stories of the Old Missions of California
      • San Francisco
        • By the Golden Gate by Joseph Carey
        • The City that Was: a Requiem of Old San Francisco by Will Irwin (short)
        • Fascinating San Francisco
        • Legends of San Francisco by George Caldwell
        • The March of Portola and hte Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco by Zoeth Eldredge
        • Palaces and Courts of the Exposition [in San Francisco] by Juliet James
        • Port o' Gold by Louis Stellman, 1922
        • San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April, 1906 by James Stetson (short)
        • Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam by Hubert Howe Bancroft (short)
        • The Vigilance Committee [of San Francisco] of '56 by James O'Meara
        • Vignettes of San Francisco by Almira Bailey
    • Community Civics and Rural Life by Arthur Dunn
    • An Essay on the American Contribution to the Democratic Idea by Winston Churchill (American cousin of Sir Winston Churchill)
    • Fires and Firemen by anonymous, from the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art 1855
    • Hero Tales from American History by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt
    • Minnesota: Its Character and Climate by Ledyard Bill
    • Mormon Settlement in Arizona by james McClintock
    • Myths and Legends of OUr Own Land by Charles Skinner
    • Oregon, Washington, and Alaska: Sights and Scenes for the Tourist by E.L. Lomax, 1890
    • A Parody Outline of History, Wherein may be found a curiously irreverent treatment of American Historical Events, Imagining them as they would be narrated by American's most characteristic contemporary authors, by Donald Stewart
    • Through the Grand Canyon