Free History Books : United States , and the Americas
Here is a list of online books about history of United States , and the Americas in various formats available for free:
- A Backward Glance at Eighty by Charles A. Murdock (HTML at LOC)
- A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama by Virginia Clay-Clopton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise, With A History of the Political Campaign in Virginia in 1855 by James Pinkney Hambleton (page images at MOA)
- A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia by Thomas Hariot (illustrated HTML and commentary at Virginia)
- A California Tramp and Later Footprints by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (HTML at LOC)
- A Canoe Voyage Up the Minnay Sotor (2 vols.) by George William Featherstonhaugh (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Across the Plains in 1844 by Catherine Sager (HTML at PBS)
- Across the Plains in the Donner Party: A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trip to California by Virginia Reed Murphy (HTML at teleport.com)
- Across the Rockies to the Columbia by John Kirk Townsend (HTML at xmission.com)
- A Child of the Sea and Life Among the Mormons by Elizabeth Whitney Williams (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Address of Citizens of Louisiana to the People of the United States by New Orleans (Louisiana) Citizens (page images at MOA)
- Address of the Washington National Monument Society to the People of the United States by Washington National Monument Society (page images at MOA)
- Addresses, Reminiscences, Etc. of General John Bidwell by John Bidwell (HTML at LOC)
- A Debate by the Philalethic society of St. Louis University, on Monday, February 21, 1870 (On the subject: “Ought the national capital to be removed to St. Louis?”) by St. Louis University Philalethic Society (page images at MOA)
- A Discourse and Discovery of New-Found-Land by Richard Whitbourne (illustrated HTML at mun.ca)
- Admission of Kansas by Marcus Junius Parrott (page images at MOA)
- Adobe Days by Sarah Bixby Smith (HTML at LOC)
- Adventures in the Wilderness by W. H. H. Murray (page images at MOA)
- Adventures on the Columbia River: Including the Narrative of a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains Among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown: Together With a Journey Across the American Continent (New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832) by Ross Cox (page images at canadiana.org)
- A Forty-Niner Speaks by Hiram Dwight Pierce (HTML at LOC)
- A Frenchman in the Gold Rush by Ernest de Massey, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
- After the War: A Southern Tour by Whitelaw Reid (page images at MOA)
- A Gallery of Pen Sketches in Black and White of Our Michigan Friends “As We See ‘Em.” by Newspaper Cartoonists’ Association of Michigan (HTML and page images at LOC)
- A General Description of Nova Scotia: Illustrated By a New and Correct Map (1823) by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and Walter Bromley (page images at canadiana.org)
- A Gil Blas in California by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (illustrated HTML at LOC)
- A Guide to Kentucky Place Names (electronic edition) by Kentucky Geological Survey (searchable HTML at uky.edu)
- A History of Herring Lake, With an Introductory Legend, The Bride of Mystery by John Harris Howard (HTML and page images at LOC)
- A History of Newfoundland from the English, Colonial and Foreign Records by D. W. Prowse (HTML with commentary at cuff.com)
- A History of Philadelphia’s University City by Leon S. Rosenthal (illustrated HTML at libertynet.org)
- A History of the City of Saint Paul, and of the County of Ramsey, Minnesota by John Fletcher Williams (page images at MOA)
- A Journey through Kansas, With Sketches of Nebraska by Charles Brandon Boynton (page images at MOA)
- A Journey Through Texas: or, A Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
- A Journey To, On, and From the “Golden Shore” by Sue A. Pike Sanders (HTML at LOC)
- À la California by Albert S. Evans (HTML at LOC)
- A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird
- A Lady’s Life on a Farm in Manitoba (London : W.H. Allen, 1884)by Mary Hall (page images at canadiana.org)
- A Letter from A Gold Miner, Placerville, California, October 1850 (with an introduction by Robert Glass Cleland) by S. Shufelt (HTML at LOC)
- A List of Micmac Names of Places, Rivers, Etc., in Nova Scotia (Cambridge Mass.: J. Wilson, 1892) by Elizabeth Frame (page images at canadiana.org)
- All the Western States and Territories by John Warner Barber (page images at MOA)
- Along the Bowstring or South Shore of Lake Superior by Julian Ralph (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Alonzo Delano’s California Correspondence by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
- A Merry Briton in Pioneer Wisconsin by Morleigh (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Among the Wolverines by Augustus C. Schooley (HTML and page images at LOC)
- An Address Delivered at the Music Hall, Boston, in Aid of the Fund for Ball’s Equestrian Statue of Washington by Robert C. Winthrop (page images at MOA)
- An Address on the Climate, Soil, Resources, Development, Commerce and Future of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan by Alexander Campbell (HTML and page images at LOC)
- A Narrative of Colonel Robert Campbell’s Experiences in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade from 1825 to 1835 by Robert Campbell (HTML at xmission.com)
- A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 by James Williams (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man by Briton Hammon (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- An Essay on Grades, Drainage, and Extension of the Public Grounds in the City of Washington as a System of General Improvement (page images at MOA)
- A New Voyage to Carolina by John Lawson (Gutenberg text)
- An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes) by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
- An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah by Howard Stansbury (page images at MOA)
- An Historical Sketch of Knox County, Nebraska by Solomon Draper (page images at MOA)
- A Historic Banner: A Paper Read on February 8th, 1896 by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon (page images at canadiana.org)
- An Illustrated History of the State of Wisconsin by Charles R. Tuttle (page images at MOA)
- An Ode Read August 15, 1907, at the Dedication of the Monument Erected at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in Commemoration of the Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the Year Sixteen Hundred and Twenty-Three by Madison Julius Cawein (HTML and SGML at Michigan)
- An Old Town By the Sea by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Gutenberg text)
- An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859 by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
- A Picture of Pioneer Times in California by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
- A Pioneer at Sutter’s Fort, 1846-1850 by Heinrich Lienhard, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
- A Pioneer Pastorate and Times by Albert Williams (HTML at LOC)
- Appleton’s Guide-Book to Alaska and the Northwest Coast (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893) by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (page images at LOC)
- Appletons’ Hand-book of American Travel: The Southern Tour by Edward H. Hall (page images at MOA)
- Appreciation of Loved Ones Who Made Life Rich for Many by Lilian A. Cross (HTML at LOC)
- A Preliminary Railroad Survey in Wisconsin, 1857 by Andrew McFarland Davis (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Arizona and Sonora: The Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Region of North America by Sylvester Mowry (page images at MOA)
- Arizona As It Is: or, The Coming Country by Hiram C. Hodge (page images at MOA)
- Arizona Sketches by Joseph A. Munk (Gutenberg text)
- Around the Horn in ’49 by Hartford Union Mining and Trading Company (HTML at LOC)
- Arctic Dawn: The Journeys of Samuel Hearne by Samuel Hearne, ed. by Rod Davidek (HTML at idirect.com)
- A Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America by North Carolina Land Company (page images at MOA)
- Astoria: or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
- A Summer Holiday: A Brief Description of Some of the Most Popular Summer Resorts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and the Routes By Which They Can be Reached by Chicago and North Western Railway Company (HTML and page images at LOC)
- A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior by Charles Lanman (HTML and page images at LOC)
- A Tenderfoot in Southern California by Mina Deane Halsey (HTML at LOC)
- A Tour From the City of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, Made Between the 2d of May and the 22d of September, 1818 by William Darby (HTML and page images at LOC)
- A Tour on the Prairies by Washington Irving (HTML at Naked Word)
- A Trip to Manitoba (London: R. Bentley, 1880) by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon (page images at canadiana.org)
- A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848 by John Alfred Swan, ed. by John A. Hussey (HTML at LOC)
- A True Description of the Lake Superior Country by John R. St. John (HTML and page images at LOC)
- A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America by Rebecca Burlend (page images at canadiana.org)
- A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Kate Sanborn (HTML at LOC)
- A Vanished Arcadia, Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay, 1607 to 1767 by R. B. Cunninghame Graham
- A Voyage Round the World by Gustavus Hines (page images at MOA)
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (HTML at walden.org)
- A Winter From Home by Charles A. Clinton (page images at MOA)
- A Winter in California by Mary H. Wills (HTML at LOC)
- A Winter in Florida by Ledyard Bill (page images at MOA)
- A Woman Rice Planter by Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Woman’s Trip to Alaska: Being an Account of a Voyage Through the Inland Seasof the Sitkan Archipelago in 1890 (New York: Cassell, 1890) by Septima Maria Levy Collis (page images at canadiana.org)
- A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush by Franklin Agustus Buck (HTML at LOC)
- Behind the Scenes in Washington by James Dabney McCabe (page images at MOA)
- Between the Gates by Benjamin F. Taylor (HTML at LOC)
- Between the Iron and the Pine: A Biography of a Pioneer Family and a Pioneer Town by Lewis Charles Reimann (page images and HTML at LOC)
- Beyond the Rockies: A Spring Journey in California by Charles Augustus Stoddard (HTML at LOC)
- Beyond the West by George W. Pine (page images at MOA)
- Bolivia: A Country Study, ed. by Rex A. Hudson and Dennis M. Hanratty (HTML at LOC)
- Borderman: The Memoirs of Federico José María Ronstadt (electronic edition; based on original MS) by Federico José María Ronstadt (illustrated HTML at Arizona)
- “Both Sides Told,” or, Southern California As It Is by Mary C. Vail (HTML at LOC)
- Bound for Sacramento by Carl Meyer (HTML at LOC)
- Braman’s Information About Texas by D. E. E. Braman (page images at MOA)
- Broad Street, Penn Square and the Park (page images at MOA)
- Buffalo Land: An Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West by William Edward Webb (page images at MOA)
- Burt’s Illustrated Guide of the Connecticut Valley by Henry M. Burt (page images at MOA)
- California, 1849-1913 by Lell Hawley Woolley (HTML at LOC)
- California ’46 to ’88 by Jacob Wright Harlan (HTML at LOC)
- California All the Way Back to 1828 by Michael Claringbud White (HTML at LOC)
- California and the West, 1881, and Later by Lloyd Vernon Briggs (HTML at LOC)
- California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (with an introduction by Madeleine Stern) by Miriam Leslie (HTML at LOC)
- California As I Saw It by William S. M’Collum (HTML at LOC)
- California As It Is and As It May Be by Felix Paul Wierzbicki (HTML at LOC)
- California: A Trip Across the Plains, In the Spring of 1850 by James Abbey (HTML at LOC)
- California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence by Charles Nordhoff
- California Gold (1933 magazine reprint) by James Stephens Brown (HTML at LOC)
- California Gold Rush Merchant by Stephen Chapin Davis (HTML at LOC)
- California Illustrated by John M. Letts
- California, In-Doors and Out by Eliza Woodson Farnham (HTML at LOC)
- California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants by Henry Veel Huntley (HTML at LOC)
- California Letters of Lucius Fairchild by Lucius Fairchild (HTML at LOC)
- California Life Illustrated by William Taylor
- California Notes by Charles B. Turrill (HTML at LOC)
- Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse by Benjamin Parke Avery (HTML at LOC)
- California Revisited, 1858-1897 by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (HTML at LOC)
- California Sketches by Thomas S. Chard (HTML at LOC)
- California Sketches (old and new volumes) by Oscar Penn Fitzgerald (HTML at LOC)
- California Sketches, With Recollections of the Gold Mines by Leonard Kip (HTML at LOC)
- Camping Out in California by Mrs. Jacob Barzilla Rideout (HTML at LOC)
- Camp Life in Florida by Charles Hallock (page images at MOA)
- Canada and the Canadians (London: H. Colburn, 1849) by Richard Henry Bonnycastle
- Canada: Why We Live in It, and Why We Like It (London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861) by Mrs. Edward Copleston (page images at canadiana.org)
- Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau (HTML at Thoreau Reader)
- Cartier and Hochelaga: Maisonneuve and Ville-Marie : Two Historic Poems of Montreal (Montreal: W. Drysdale & Co., 1895)by Walter Norton Evans (page images at canadiana.org)
- Celebration by the Inhabitants of Worcester, Mass., of the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by Worcester (Massachusetts) (page images at MOA)
- Central Route to the Pacific by Gwinn Harris Heap (page images at MOA)
- Chambliss’ Diary: or, Society As It Really Is by William H. Chambliss (illustrated HTML at LOC)
- Chicago and the Great Conflagration by Elias Colbert (page images at MOA)
- Chicago Magazine: The West As It Is (page images at MOA)
- Chile: A Country Study, ed. by Rex A. Hudson (HTML at LOC)
- Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson by John S. C. Abbott (page images at MOA)
- Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study (San Francisco: History Co., 1891-1892) by Hubert Howe Bancroft
- volume I: page images at canadiana.org
- volume II: page images at canadiana.org
- volume III: page images at canadiana.org
- volume IV: page images at canadiana.org
- volume V: page images at canadiana.org
- volume VI: page images at canadiana.org
- volume VII: page images at canadiana.org
- Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society by Minnesota Historical Society (partial serial archives)
- Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin by State Historical Society of Wisconsin (partial serial archives)
- Colombia: A Country Study, ed. by Dennis M. Hanratty and Sandra W. Meditz (HTML at LOC)
- Country Margins and Rambles of a Journalist by Samuel H. Hammond (page images at MOA)
- Crusoe’s Island by John Ross Brown (HTML at LOC)
- Davenport, Past and Present by Franc B. Wilkie (page images at MOA)
- David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John S. C. Abbott (HTML at Naked Word)
- Death Valley in ’49 by William Lewis Manly (HTML at LOC)
- Detroit and the Pleasure Resorts of Northern Michigan by Detroit Lansing and Northern Railroad Company (HTML and page images at loc.gov)
- Diary of a Physician in California by James Lawrence Tyson (HTML at LOC)
- Diary of Patrick Breen by Patrick Breen (HTML at teleport.com)
- Directory of the Borough of Chester, For the Years 1859-60 by William Whitehead (page images at MOA)
- Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian War of 1851, Which Led to That Event by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell (HTML at LOC)
- Dominican Republic and Haiti: Country Studies, ed. by Richard A. Haggerty (HTML at LOC)
- Early Days at the Mission San Juan Bautista by Isaac L. Mylar (HTML at LOC)
- Early Days in California: Scenes and Events of the ’50s As I Remember Them by Lee Whipple-Haslam (HTML at LOC)
- Early Days in the Chippewa Valley by Charles Smith Bundy (HTML and page images at loc.gov)
- Early History of North Lawrence by North Lawrence Civic Association (HTML at Kansas)
- Early Recollections of the Mines, and A Description of the Great Tulare Valley by James H. Carson (HTML at LOC)
- Early Voyages to California by Alfred Peabody and J. H. Eagleston (HTML at LOC)
- Echoes of the Past About California by John Bidwell (HTML at LOC)
- Ecuador: A Country Study, ed. by Dennis M. Hanratty (HTML at LOC)
- Edmund Booth (1810-1905) Forty-Niner: The Life Story of a Deaf Pioneer by Edmund Booth (HTML at LOC)
- Eldorado: or, Adventures in the Path of Empire (two volumes) by Bayard Taylor
- Eldorado: or, California As Seen By a Pioneer by David Augustus Shaw (HTML at LOC)
- El Salvador: A Country Study, ed. by Richard A. Haggerty (HTML at LOC)
- Emigrant Life in Kansas by Percy G. Ebbutt (HTML at Kansas)
- Excursion of the Putnam Phalanx to Boston, Charlestown and Providence, October 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, in the Year of Our Lord, 1859 by Putnam Phalanx (page images at MOA)
- Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852 by Randolph Barnes Marcy and George Brinton McClellan (page images at MOA)
- Facts and Figures About Michigan by Frank James Bramhall (HTML and page images at loc.gov)
- Fairmount Park by Charles Shearer Keyser (page images at MOA)
- Famous Firesides of French Canada (1899) by Mary Wilson Alloway (page images at canadiana.org)
- Far-West Sketches by Jessie Benton Frémont (HTML at LOC)
- Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838 – January 15, 1839by John Blackford, ed. by Fletcher M. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Fifty Years in America by Nils Nilsen Rønning (HTML and page images at loc.gov)
- Fifty Years in the Northwest by William Henry Carman Folsom, ed. by E. E. Edwards (HTML and page images at loc.gov)
- First Across the Continent: The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks
- Five Months’ Fine Weather in Canada, Western U.S., and Mexico (1889) by Mrs. E. H. Carbutt (page images at canadiana.org)
- Five Years in Minnesota by J. Maurice Farrar (HTML and page images at loc.gov)
- Five Years in Texas: or, What You Did Not Hear During the War from January 1861 to January 1866 by Thomas North (page images at MOA)
- Floral Home by Harriet E. Bishop
- Florida: Its Scenery, Climate, and History by Sidney Lanier (page images at MOA)
- Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness: or, Thirty-Six Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras by Z. N. Morrell (page images at MOA)
- Four Months in a Sneak-Box: A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico by Nathaniel H. Bishop (illustrated HTML at Eldritch Press)
- Forty-two Years Amongst the Indians and Eskimo: Pictures From the Life of the Right Reverend John Horden, First Bishop of Moosonee (London: Religious Tract Society, 1893) by Beatrice Batty (page images at canadiana.org)
- Freedom in Kansas by William Henry Seward (page images at MOA)
- French Canadian Life and Character With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of (Chicago: A. Belford, 1899) by George Monro Grant (page images at canadiana.org)
- From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics by J. Milton Mackie (page images at MOA)
- From East Prussia to the Golden Gate by Frank Lecouvreur (HTML at LOC)
- From Flag to Flag: A Woman’s Adventures and Experiences in the South During the War, in Mexico, and in Cuba by Eliza Moore Chinn McHatton Ripley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- From the Hub to the Hudson by Washington Gladden (page images at MOA)
- From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer by Henry Hiram Ellis (HTML at LOC)
- Gazetteer of the State of Michigan by John T. Blois (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Gazetteer of the St. Joseph Valley, Michigan and Indiana by Timothy Gilman Turner (page images at MOA)
- Geary and Kansas by John H. Gihon
- General History of the State of Michigan by Charles R. Tuttle (page images at MOA)
- Gerstäcker’s Travels by Friedrich Gerstäcker (HTML at LOC)
- Gideon Lee Knapp and Augusta Murray Spring, His Wife: Extracts from Letter and Journal by Gideon Lee Knapp and Augusta Murray Spring Knapp (HTML at LOC)
- Glances at California, 1847-1853 by William Rich Hutton (HTML at LOC)
- Glimpses of California and the Missions by Helen Hunt Jackson (HTML at LOC)
- Glimpses of Hungryland: or, California Sketches by W. S. Walker (HTML at LOC)
- Glimpses of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, Seattle, Wash. and the Great Northwest (Chicago: Laird and Lee, c1909) (page images at LOC)
- Gold and Sunshine: Reminiscences of Early California by James J. Ayers (HTML at LOC)
- Golden Dreams and Waking Realities by William Shaw (HTML at LOC)
- Good Newes from New England by Edward Winslow (HTML with commentary at AOL)
- Granite Crags by Constance F. Gordon-Cumming (HTML at LOC)
- Groton in the Witchcraft Times by Samuel Green (HTML at Hanover)
- Guide to Charleston Illustrated by Arthur Mazyck (page images at MOA)
- Guyana and Belize: Country Studies, ed. by Tim Merrill (HTML at LOC)
- Haliburton, the Man and the Writer : a Study (1889) by Francis Blake Crofton (page images at canadiana.org)
- Hand Book of Wisconsin by Silas Chapman (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Hanging the Sheriff: A Biography of Henry Plummer by Ruth E. Mather and F. E. Boswell
- Happy Days in Southern California by Frederick Hastings Rindge (HTML at LOC)
- Harper’s New York and Erie Rail-Road Guide Book (page images at MOA)
- Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure by Fritz W. Up de Graff (HTML at Naked Word)
- Heroes of the Middle West : the French (Boston: Ginn, 1900) by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (page images at canadiana.org)
- Hill Coolies by John Scoble (illustrated HTML at Indiana)
- Hints on the Internal Improvement of North Carolina (page images at MOA)
- Historical Collections of Ohio by Henry Howe (page images at MOA)
- Historical Sketch of the Charitable Institutions of Winnipeg (Winnipeg: Manitoba Free Press Co., 1899) by Marion Bryce (page images at canadiana.org)
- History of Corporal Fess Whitaker by Fess Whitaker (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- History of the Conquest of Peru (with footnotes) by William Hickling Prescott (Gutenberg text)
- History of the Conquest of Peru (without footnotes) by William Hickling Prescott (Gutenberg text)
- History of the Donner Party (second edition, 1880) by C. F. McGlashan (HTML at teleport.com)
- History of the Eastern Townships, Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada: Civil and Descriptive (Montreal: J. Lovell, 1869) by Catherine Matilda Day (page images at canadiana.org)
- History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean (1814 edition) by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Nicholas Biddle, ed. by Paul Allen
- History of the Great Chicago Fire, October 8, 9, and 10, 1871 by James H. Goodsell (page images at MOA)
- History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West by Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (page images at MOA)
- Honduras: A Country Study, ed. by Tim Merrill (HTML at LOC)
- How New York is Governed: Frauds of the Tammany Democrats(page images at MOA)
- H. P. Hall’s Observations: Being More or Less a History of Political Contests in Minnesota From 1849 to 1904 by Harlan Page Hall (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Hudson’s Bay, Or, Every-day Life in the Wilds of North America: During Six Years’ Residence in the Territories of the Honourable Hudson’s Bay Company (Edinburgh, London: W. Blackwood, 1848, Second Edition) by Robert Michael Ballantyne (page images at canadiana.org)
- Hudson’s Bay, Or, Every-day Life in the Wilds of North America: During Six Years’ Residence in the Territories of the Honourable Hudson’s Bay Company (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1848, First Edition) by Robert Michael Ballantyne (page images at canadiana.org)
- Hunter’s Panoramic Guide from Niagara Falls to Quebec by William S. Hunter (page images at MOA)
- Hypocricie Unmasked by Edward Winslow (HTML with commentary at AOL)
- History of the New-England Emigrant Aid Company, With a Report on Its Future Operations by New-England Emigrant Aid Company (page images at MOA)
- History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire, From Its Settlement in 1638, to the Autumn of 1892 by Joseph Dow (illustrated HTML at Lane Memorial Library)
- Illinois As It Is by Frederick Gerhard (page images at MOA)
- Incidents of a Southern Tour by Horace Cowles Atwater (page images at MOA)
- Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West by Solomon Nunes Carvalho (page images at MOA)
- Incidents on Land and Water: or, Four Years on the Pacific Coast by Mrs. D. B. Bates
- Indiana by Richard Swainson Fisher (page images at MOA)
- Indianapolis by William Robeson Holloway (page images at MOA)
- In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard (HTML at LOC)
- Iowa As It Is in 1856 by Nathan Howe Parker (page images at MOA)
- Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean: A Regional Study, ed. by Sandra W. Meditz and Dennis M. Hanratty (HTML at LOC)
- Jottings of a Year’s Sojourn in the South: or, First Impressions of the Country and Its People by Anson De Puy Van Buren (page images at MOA)
- Journal of a Fourteen Days’ Ride Through the Bush From Quebec to Lake St. John (1872) by Mrs. N. Davenport (page images at canadiana.org)
- Journal of Army Life by Rodney Glisan (page images at MOA)
- Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell (HTML at xmission.com)
- Journal of a Trip to Michigan in 1841 by Lansing B. Swan (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh; Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region by Benjamin Kohlmeister and George Kmoch (illustrated HTML at mun.ca)
- Journal of the State Convention of South Carolina by South Carolina Convention (page images at MOA)
- Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life by Sara T. L. Robinson (HTML at Kansas)
- Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the Union by Leverett Wilson Spring (HTML at Kansas)
- Kanzas and Nebraska by Edward Everett Hale (page images at MOA)
- Klondyke nuggets: Being a Brief Description of the Famous Gold Regions of the Great Canadian Northwest and Alaska (New York: American technical book co., 1897) by Joseph Ladue (page images at LOC)
- L’Acadie, or, Seven Years’ Explorations in British America (London: H. Colburn, 1849) by James Edward Alexander
- Lake Superior Guide by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, “Buffalo Bill” by Helen Cody Wetmore
- Laws and Regulations of the American Medical Association, With a Sketch of Detroit, and a Brief History of the University of Michigan, and of the Development of the Resources of the Stateby American Medical Association (page images at MOA)
- Legends of Vancouver by Emily Pauline Johnson (local illustrated HTML)
- Letter from Rufus B. Bullock, of Georgia, to the Republican Senators and Representatives, in Congress Who Sustain the Reconstruction Acts by Rufus B. Bullock (page images at MOA)
- Letter From the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King (HTML at Stanford)
- Letters from California by David L. Phillips (HTML at LOC)
- Letters from California by Harriet Harper (HTML at LOC)
- Letters from the Pacific Slope by Harvey Rice (HTML at LOC)
- Letters from the Slave States by James Stirling (page images at MOA)
- Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart (HTML at Virginia)
- Letters of Travel in California, in the Winter and Spring of 1896 by Loraine Immen (HTML at LOC)
- Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres Giving an Account of a Voyage to Canada, and Travels Through That Vast Country, and Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico (1763) by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (page images at canadiana.org)
- Life Among the Mormons, and a March to their Zion: To Which is Added a Chapter on the Indians of the Plains and Mountains of the West by William Elkanah Waters (page images at MOA)
- Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Martha Canary (Gutenberg text)
- Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as “Deadwood Dick,” by Himself (1907) by Nat Love (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life and History of William O’Neal; or, The Man Who Sold His Wife (St. Louis: A.R. Fleming, 1896) by William O’Neal (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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- The Life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and His Narrative of Explorations and Adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California by John Charles Fremont (page images at MOA)
- The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879) by William F. Cody (page images at LOC)
- The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, The Negro Patriot of Hayti (London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co, 1853) by John Relly Beard (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Lost City! Drama of the Fire-Fiend! or Chicago, As it Was, and As it Is! and its Glorious Future! by Frank Luzerne (page images at MOA)
- The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion: Also, Before and Since by John Warner Barber (page images at MOA)
- The Lure of the Past, the Present and Future by George W. Bryan (HTML at LOC)
- The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau (HTML at Thoreau Reader)
- The Man Who Tried to Burn New York by Nat Brandt (page images at iuniverse.com)
- The Marvellous Country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens (page images at MOA)
- The Merrimack River: Its Source and Its Tributaries by J. W. Meader (page images at MOA)
- The Minnesota Guide (1869 edition), ed. by John Fletcher Williams (HTML and page images at LOC)
- The Minnesota Handbook, for 1856-7 by Nathan Howe Parker (page images at MOA)
- The Mississippi Valley by J. W. Foster (page images at MOA)
- The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Josiah Francis Gibbs (illustrated HTML at utlm.org)
- The Mountains of California by John Muir
- The Natural Wealth of California by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)
- Then Came May by Georgia Hastings Hufford (HTML and page images at LOC)
- The Negroes at Port Royal by Edward Lillie Pierce (page images at MOA)
- The New and the Old: or, California and India in Romantic Aspectsby J. W. Palmer (HTML at LOC)
- The New Northwest by William D. Kelley (page images at MOA)
- The Old Colony Railroad: Its Connections, Popular Resorts, and Fashionable Watering-Places by Matthew Hale Smith (page images at MOA)
- The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman (Gutenberg text)
- The Overland Monthly (partial serial archives)
- The Pacific Northwest (New York, 1882) by Oregon State Board of Emigration (page images at LOC)
- The Pacific Railroad — Open. How to Go: What to See by Samuel Bowles (page images at MOA)
- The Pacific Tourist by Henry T. Williams (page images at MOA)
- The Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles’ Walk Across South America (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869) by Nathaniel H. Bishop (HTML at Eldritch press)
- The Past of Ypsilanti by Gustavus Lemuel Foster (page images at MOA)
- The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions by Randolph Barnes Marcy (HTML with commentary at Kansas)
- The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government by James Shepherd Pike (page images at MOA)
- The Public Ledger Building, Philadelphia (page images at MOA)
- The Record of Andover During the Rebellion by Samuel Raymond (page images at MOA)
- The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)
- The Resources of California by John Shertzer Hittell (page images at MOA)
- The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims, and Its Place in the Life of To-Day (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1911) by Albert C. Addison (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- The Rough Guide to Mexico (third edition) by John Fisher (imagemap-dependent HTML at Rough Guides / HotWired)
- The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, ed. by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text)
- The Seat of Empire by Charles Carleton Coffin (page images at MOA)
- The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (HTML at LOC)
- The Sidney Centennial Jubilee at Sidney Plains, Delaware Co., N.Y., June 13, 1872 by Sidney (New York) Centennial Celebration (page images at MOA)
- The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Sot-Weed Factor by Ebenezer Cook, ed. by Arthur Kay (HTML at Oregon)
- The South: A Tour of Its Battle-Fields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks With the Peopleby J. T. Trowbridge (page images at MOA)
- The South Since the War, As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas by Sidney Andrews (page images at MOA)
- The Standard Guide: Mackinac Island and Northern Lake Resorts(HTML and page images at LOC)
- The State of Wisconsin, Embracing Brief Sketches of Its History, Position, Resources and Industries, and a Catalogue of Its Exhibits at the Centennial at Philadelphia. 1876 (page images at MOA)
- The St. Mary’s I Knew by Aloysia Ames (illustrated HTML at Arizona)
- The Story of My Childhood, Written For My Children by Alice Mendenhall George (HTML and page images at LOC)
- The Stranger’s New Guide Through Boston and Vicinity (1869)(page images at MOA)
- The Summer of the Pestilence: A History of the Ravages of the Yellow Fever in Norfolk, Virginia, A.D. 1855 by George D. Armstrong (HTML at visi.net)
- The Sunset Land by John Todd (HTML at LOC)
- The Tourist’s Guide through the Empire State by Mrs. S. S. Colt (page images at MOA)
- The Trail of the Goldseekers by Hamlin Garland (page images at MOA)
- The Trek of the Seven Sisters by Monica Corrigan (illustrated HTML and PDF at Arizona)
- The Unfinished Autobiography of Henry Hastings Sibley by Henry Hastings Sibley (HTML and page images at LOC)
- The Vermontville Colony, Its Genesis and History, With Personal Sketches of the Colonists by Edward W. Barber (HTML and page images at LOC)
- The Vigilantes of Montana by Thomas Dimsdale
- The Virginia Tourist by Edward Alfred Pollard (page images at MOA)
- The War in Kansas by George Douglas Brewerton (page images at MOA)
- The Washington and Georgetown Directory, Strangers’ Guide-Book for Washington, and Congressional and Clerks’ Register by Alfred Hunter (page images at MOA)
- The Western Tourist and Emigrant’s Guide through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and the Territories of Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska by J. H. Colton (page images at MOA)
- The West Virginia Hand-Book and Immigrant’s Guide by Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (page images at MOA)
- The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry by Thomas Starr King (page images at MOA)
- The White Mountain Guide Book by Samuel Coffin Eastman (page images at MOA)
- The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Wild North Land: Being the Story of a Winter Journey, With Dogs, Across Northern North America (London : S. Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873) by William Francis Butler (page images at canadiana.org)
- The William and Mary Quarterly (partial serial archives)
- The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California by Samuel Kneeland (page images at MOA)
- The Yosemite by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Sierra Club)
- The Yosemite Guide Book by Geological Survey of California (page images at MOA)
- Thirty Years in California by Samuel Hopkins Willey (HTML at LOC)
- Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Wesson George Miller (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border by Randolph Barnes Marcy (page images at MOA)
- Three Years in California by Walter Colton
- Three Years in California by J. D. Borthwick (HTML at LOC)
- Three Years on the Kansas Border by John McNamara (page images at MOA)
- “Three Score Years and Ten,” Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West by Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans by Thomas James (HTML at xmission.com)
- Through Canada With a Kodak (Edinburgh : W.H. White, 1893) by Ishbel Maria Aberdeen (page images at canadiana.org)
- Through Evangeline’s Country (Boston: J. Knight, 1894) by Jeannette A. Grant (page images at canadiana.org)
- Through Some Eventful Years by Susan (Bradford) Eppes (page images at MOA)
- To and Fro in Southern California by Emma H. Adams (HTML at LOC)
- Topography of Washington’s Camp of 1780 and Its Neighborhoodby Emory McClintock (HTML at makcom.com)
- To the Congress of the United States by Richard Hanson Weightman (page images at MOA)
- Touching Incidents in the Life and Labors of a Pioneer on the Pacific Coast Since 1853 by Joseph Wilkinson Hines (HTML at LOC)
- Tourist’s Guide to the Upper Mississippi River by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- Tracks and Trails: or, Incidents in the Life of a Minnesota Territorial Pioneer by Nathan Dally (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 by John Bradbury (HTML at xmission.com)
- Travels With Jottings by Edward D. Holton (HTML at LOC)
- Trouting on the Brulé River by John Lyle King (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Two Years in California by Mary Cone (HTML at LOC)
- Up and Down California in 1860-1864 by William H. Brewer, ed. by Francis P. Farquhar (HTML at LOC)
- Uruguay: A Country Study, ed. by Rex A. Hudson and Sandra W. Meditz (HTML at LOC)
- Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes (Gutenberg text)
- Venezuela: A Country Study, ed. by Richard A. Haggerty (HTML at LOC)
- Vigilante Days and Ways by Nathaniel Pitt Langford
- Violence in the City: An End or a Beginning? by California Governor’s Commission on the Los Angeles Riots (HTML at DrPseudocryptonym)
- Virginia: A Geographical and Political Summary, Embracing a Description of the State by Virginia Board of Immigration (page images at MOA)
- Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan by David Hunter Strother (page images at MOA)
- Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth by Henry Nash Smith (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
- Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil by Joshua Slocum (illustrated HTML at Eldritch Press)
- Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, From Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5 by Nathaniel H. Bishop
- Voyages of Samuel De Champlain by Samuel de Champlain, trans. by Charles Pomeroy Otis, contrib. by Edmund F. Slafter
- volume I: page images at canadiana.org
- volume II: page images at canadiana.org
- volume III: page images at canadiana.org
- Washington National Monument by United States House Select Committee on the Washington Monument (page images at MOA)
- Wau-Bun, The Early Day in the Northwest by Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Went to Kansas by Miriam Davis Colt (HTML at Kansas)
- Western Portraiture, and Emigrants’ Guide by Daniel S. Curtiss (page images at MOA)
- Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded From the Street Cars by B. P. Hunt (page images at MOA)
- Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains by George Frederick Ruxton (HTML at xmission.com)
- Wilson’s Illustrated Guide to the Hudson River (page images at MOA)
- Wisconsin and Its Resources by James S. Ritchie (page images at MOA)
- Wisconsin Gazetteer (1853) (page images at MOA)
- With Pen and Pencil on the Frontier in 1851 by Francis Blackwell Mayer, ed. by Bertha L. Heilbron (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Woman in Levi’s by Eulalia Bourne (illustrated HTML at Arizona)
- Wonderful Old Lawrence by Elfriede Fischer Rowe (illustrated HTML at Kansas)
- Wonderland: or, The Pacific Northwest and Alaska (Chicago: Rand McNally, c1888) by John Hyde (page images at LOC)
- Wonderland: or, Twelve Weeks in and out of the United States by Edward S. Parkinson (HTML at LOC)
- Woods and Waters: or, The Saranacs and Racket by Alfred Billings Street (page images at MOA)
- Ye Ancient History of Norfolk in Rag Time by Frank Wing (HTML at infi.net)
