The unbroken wild (1804) from Lewis and Clark's journals
Jim Beckwourth's narrative (1824) from Autobiography of James P. Beckwourth
The pathfinder: In the high Rockies (1842) by John C. Fremont from Fremont's journal of the first expedition
The wilderness hunter (1845) by J.B. Ruxton from Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains
At Fort Laramie (1846) by Francis Parkman from The Oregon Trail
Gold! Gold! Sutter's Fort (1848-1849) by Charles Pettigrew from the Caledonian
A frontier duel (1848) by Emerson Hough from The covered wagon
El Dorado by Bayard Taylor from Eldorado
Fremont's great ride (1849) by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh from Fremont and '49
The luck of roaring camp by Bret Harte from The luck of roaring camp and other sketches
The city of the saints by Sir Richard Burton from The city of the saints and across the Rocky Mountains to California
On the Comstock (1860) by J. Ross Browne from A peep at Washoe and Washoe revisited
Alder Gulch by Nathaniel P. Langford from Vigilante days and ways
Cheyennes and Sioux (1867) by General George A. Custer from My life on the plains
The pony express by Mark Twain from Roughing it
Slade by Mark Twain from Roughing it
General Sheridan hunts the buffalo by De B.R. Keim from On the border with Sheridan's troopers
At Tucson (1870) by Capt. John G. Bourke from On the border with Cook.
Told at Trinidad (1879) by A.A. Hayes, Jr. from New Colorado and the Santa Fe Trail
Specimen Jones by Owen Wister from Red men and white
The land of the straddle bug: Dakota (1883) by Hamlin Garland from The moccasin ranch
Old Ephraim the grizzly by Theodore Roosevelt from Hunting trips of a ranchman
The vanished scene by Hal G. Evarts from The passing of the Old West.
