West (U.S.) -- Description and travel books

Roughing It

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s *Roughing It* is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles a series of episodic adventures…

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William

The Journals of Lewis and Clark present a day‑by‑day record of the Corps of Discovery’s early progress down…

The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions

Randolph B. Marcy

The Prairie Traveler is a practical handbook for anyone planning an over‑land journey across the American…

Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska

Charles Warren Stoddard

Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 2, October 21-December 4, 1839 and De Smet's Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846

Farnham, Thomas Jefferson; Smet, Pierre-Jean de

Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)

Croghan, George; Morris, Thomas; Post, Christian Frederick; Weiser, Conrad

The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7.

Zebulon Montgomery Pike

The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life

Francis Parkman

The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 2 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7.

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery; Coues, Elliott

Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842

Flagg, Edmund; Smet, Pierre-Jean de

The Crest of the Continent: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond

Ernest Ingersoll

Steep Trails

John Muir

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West

Irving, Washington; Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de

Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast

James Fowler Rusling

Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 1, May 21-October 16, 1839

Thomas Jefferson Farnham

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Isabella L. Bird

Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey, 1832; and Townsend's Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, 1834

Wyeth, John B. (John Bound); Townsend, John Kirk

Tales of lonely trails

Zane Grey

The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 3 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7.

Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813

Alexander Ross

Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824-1830; Willard's Inland Trade with New Mexico, 1825, and Downfall of the Fredonian Republic; and Malte-Brun's Account of Mexico

Pattie, James O. (James Ohio); Malte-Brun, Conrad; Willard, Dr.

James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1

James, Edwin; Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman); Say, Thomas

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources

John Charles Frémont

Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays

Robert Louis Stevenson