The American West in Fiction and History

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Table of Contents of the American West CD

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The American West in Fiction

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• Connor Magan's Luck by M.T.W.
• The Log-Cabin Lady
• Young Wild West at Forbidden Pass by an Old Scout

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 Last of the chiefs, a Story of the Great Sioux War
• The Masters of the Peaks
• The Rulers of the Lakes
• Scouts of the Valley
• The Shadow of the North
• The Texan Star, the Story of a Great Fight for Liberty
• The Young Trailers, a Story of Early Kentucky

Ada Woodruff Anderson

• The Rim of the Desert, 1915

Wilder Anthony

• Hidden Gold

Gertrude Atherton

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

Mary Austin

• The Land of Little Rain
• The Trail Book

Josephine Daskam Bacon

• In the Border Country

Willard Baker

• The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians, or Trailing the Yaquis

Robert Michael Ballantyne

• Digging for Gold
• The Dog Crusoe and His Master
• Fort Desolation
• Wild Man of the West

Nettie Garmer Barker

• Kansas Women in Literature

Amelia Barr

• The Measure of a Man
• Remember the Alamo

Rex Beach

• Pardners, 1904

David Belasco

• The Girl of the Golden West

Robert Bird

• Nick of the Woods

Harold Blindloss

• The Gold Trail
• Winston of the Prairie

Captain Ralph Bonehill

• The Boy Land Boomer or Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma
• Guns and Snowshoes

Geraldine Bonner

• The Emigrant Trail

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 Lookout Man
• The Lure of Dim Trails
• The Phantom Herd, 1916
• The Quirt
• The Range Dwellers
• Rowdy of the Cross L
• The Skyrider
• 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'

Charles Neville Buck

• A Pagan of the Hills

Ned Buntline

• Wild Bill's Last Trail

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

Captain James Carson

• The Saddle Boys of the Rockies

Willa Cather

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

Irvin Cobb

• Roughing It De Luxe

H.A. Cody

• Glen of the High North
• Jess of the Rebel Trail
• Rod of the Lone Patrol
• Under Sealed Orders

John Esten Cooke

• The Last of the Foresters

Dane Coolidge

• Rimrock Jones

Courtney Ryley Cooper

• The White Desert

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

• James Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain

Charles Egbert Craddock

• The Young Mountaineers, Short Stories

Isabella Crawford

• Old Spookses' Pass (poem)

Ridgwell Cullum

• The Forfeit
• The Story of the Foss River Ranch
• The Triumph of John Kars, a Story of the Yukon

Edward Curnick

• The Kentucky Ranger

Captain Charles Curtis

• Captured by the Navajos

James Oliver Curwood

• The Alaskan
• The Courage of Marge O'Doone
• The Danger Trail, 1910

Alice Emerson

• Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest or The Indian Girl of the Movies

Augusta Evans

• Inez: a Tale of the Alamo

J.W. de Forest

• Overland, 1871

Fremont Deering

• The Border Boys Across the Frontier

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

J.W. Duffield

• Burt Wilson in the Rockies

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
• Hunters of the Ozark
• In the Pecos Country
• The Land of Mystery
• The Life of Kit Carson
• The Lost Trail
• Oonamoo the Huron
• The Phantom of the River
• The Story of Red Feather
• Through Forest and Fire
• Two Boys in Wyoming

Hal Evarts

• The Settling of the Sage

George Manville Fenn

• The Silver Canyon, a Tale of the Western Plains
• To the West
• To Win or to Die

Harvey Ferguson

• The Blood of the Conquerors

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

Frank Fowler

• The Bronco Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz

John Fox, Jr.

• Crittenden, a Kentucky Story of Love and War
• 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
• In Happy Valley
• A Knight of the Cumberland
• The Last Stetson (story)
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
• A Mountain Europa
• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

John Frederick

• Riders of the Silences

Hamlin Garland

• The Eagle's Heart
• Mocassin Ranch

Jackson Gregory

• Daughter of the Sun
• Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
• The Short Cut

Zane Grey

• Betty Zane
• The Border Legion
• The Call of the Canyon
• The Day of the Beast
• 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

Charles Gunnison

• The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidre

John Habberton

• Romance of California Life

Angelo Hall

• Forty-One Theives, a Tale of California

H. Irving Handcock

• The Young Engineers in Arizona

Arthur Preston Hankins

• The She Boss, a Western Story

Frank Harris

• The Sheriff and His Partner (short story)

William Hart

• Injun and Whitey to the Rescue

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

• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: a Belated Guest by William Dean Howells

James Hendryx

• The Challenge of the North
• The Gun-Brand
• The Texan, a Story of the Cattle Country

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
• Maw's Vacation, The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone
• The Mississippi Bubble
• The Purchase Price
• The Sagebrusher, a Story of the West
• The Story of the Outlaw
• The Way of a Man

Elbert Hubbard

• The Mintage (stories)

Helen Hunt Jackson (=H.H.)

• Between Whiles, 1888
• Ramona

C.E. Jacobs

• Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party (with Edyth Ellerbeck Read)

Clarence Kelland

• Scattergood Baines

Florence Finch Kelly

• Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories

Frances Parkman Keyes

• The Old Gray Homestead, 1919

Charles King

• An Apache Princess
• A Daughter of the Sioux
• The Deserter
• Foes in Ambush
• From the Ranks
• Lanier of the Cavalry
• Marion's Faith
• Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
• Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land
• Under Fire
• Waring's Peril
• Warrior Gap, a Story of the Sioux Outbreak of 1868
• A Wounded Name

W.H.G. Kingston

• Adventures in the Far West
• The Adventures of Dick Onslow Among the Redskins
• The Frontier Fort: Stirring Times in the North-West Terriroty of British America
• In the Rocky Mountains, a Tale of Adventure
• The Log House by the Lake, a Tale of Canada
• With Axe and Rifle

Mrs. John H. Kinzie

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

Henry Herbert Knibbs

• Jim Waring
• The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
• Sundown Slim

Edith Eudora Kohl

• Land of the Burnt Thigh

Agnes Laut

• The Freebooters of the Wilderness
• Lords of the North
• Pathfinders of the West

Andrew Henry Lewis

• Wolfville Nights, 1902

Merriweather Lewis and William Clark

• Journals of Lewis and Clark

Will Lillinbridge

• Ben Blair, the Story of a Plainsman
• Where the Trail Divides

John Lomax

• Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (editor)
• Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp (editor)

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

Francis Lynde

• Branded
• The Master of Appleby
• The Price
• 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

Evertett McNeil

• The Cave of Gold

Ellis Meredith

• The Master-Knot of Human Fate

Philip Verrill Mighels

• The Furnace of Gold

Joaquin Miller

• The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras

William Morrison

• The Hunters

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

G.W. Ogden

• Trail's End

Frederick Palmer

• Over the Pass

Randall Parrish

• Beth Norvell, a Romance of the West
• The Devil's Own, a Romance of the Black Hawk War
• Keith of the Border: a Tale of the Plain
• Molly McDonald, a Tale of the Old Frontier
• My Lady of Doubt
• When Wilderness Was King

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
• The Pony Rider Boys in Texas

William MacLeod Raine

• A Daughter of the Dons
• Big-Town Round-Up
• Mavericks
• Oh, You Tex!
• The Sheriff's Son
• Steve Yeager
• Tangled Trails, a Western Detective Story
• A Texas Ranger
• The Yukon Trail, a Tale of the North

Captain Mayne Reid

• The Boy Hunters, Adventures in Searhc of a White Buffalo

Frederic Remington

• Crooked Trails
• The Way of an Indian

Mack Reynolds

• Gun for Hire

Eugene Rhodes

• Copper Streak Trail

Captain Wyn Roosevelt

• Frontier Boys in Frisco

Kate Sanborn

• A Truthful Woman in Southern California

Molly Elliot Seawell

• Betty at Fort Blizzard

Charles Alden Seltzer

• Boss of the Lazy Y
• Square Deal Sanderson
• The Trail Horde
• TheTwo-Gun Man

George Shedo

• The Iron Furrow

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

• Big Timber
• Burned Bridges
• North of Fifty-Three
• Poor Man's Rock

F. Berkeley Smith

• The Lady of Big Shanty

Hal Standish

• Fred Fearnot's New Ranch and How He and Terry Managed It

Robert J.C. Stead

• The Cow Puncher

William O. Stoddard

• The Talking Leaves, an Indian Story

Edward Stratemeyer

• Dave Porter at Star Ranch

Arthur Stringer

• The Prairie Wife

Edward Taylor

• Ted Strong in Montana

Louis Tracy

• The Captain of the Kansas

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

Cy Warman

• The Last Spike and Other Railroad Stories

Frank Webster

• Bob Chester's Grit or From Ranch to Riches
• The Boy from the Ranch
• Comrades of the Saddle
• Cowboy Dave
• The Young Treasure Hunter or Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska

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 Killer
• The Land of Footprints
• The Leopard Woman
• The Mountains
• The Riverman
• The Silent Places

William Patterson White

• The Heart of the Range

Barret Willoughby

• Where the Sun Swings North

Honore Willsie

• The Enchanted Canyon
• The Forbidden Trail
• The Heart of the Desert

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

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

 
• 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
• History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, volume 1
• 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
 
• 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 Ranch by Horace Amnesty Vachell
• A Canyon Voyage,  Narrative of the Second Poewll Expedition Down the Green-Colorado iver 1871 and 1872
• 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
• Last of the Great Scouts [Buffalo Bill] by Helen Cody Wetmore
• Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
• The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson by DeWitt C. Peters
• The Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love
• 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
• Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn
• 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
• Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona by Cosmos Mindeleff
• 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)
• The Great Indian Chief of the West, or the Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
• 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. 1913 by W.H Ryers
• Sequoyah (from Harper's New Monthly) (short)
• Three years on the Plains, Observations of Indians 867-1870 by Edmund Tuttle
• 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
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire edited by Charles Morris
• 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
• The Lake of the Sky, Lake Tahoe by George Wharton Jane
• 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
• Old Mackinaw of the Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surrounding by W. P. Strickland
• Oregon, Washington, and Alaska: Sights and Scenes for the Tourist by E.L. Lomax, 1890
• Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Charles Warren Stoddard
• Overland Red, a Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail
• 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
• Peak and Prairie by Anna Fuller
• Rambles in the Mammoth Cave During the Year 1844 by alexander Clark Bullit
• Ranching, Sport, and Travel by Thomas Carson
• The River and I by John Neihardt
• The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America by John West
• Ten Thousand Miles With a Dog Sled by Hudson Stuck
• Through the Grand Canyon
• The Western United States, a Geographical Reader by Harold Wellman Fairbanks

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