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- Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism
- Anne Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery
- Bernard DeVoto, Across the Wide Missouri; The Course of Empire; The Year of Decision
- Clyde Milner and Carol O’Connor, Oxford History of the American West
- David Dary, The Oregon Trail; Cowboy Culture
- Elizabeth Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World
- Francis Parkman, any part of France and England in the New World; Oregon Trail
- Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History
- Frederick Merk, Manifest Destiny or Mission
- Gleaves Whitney, Colorado Front Range
- Howard Lamar, The New Encyclopedia of the American West
- James Fenimore Cooper, any of the Leatherstocking Tales
- John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone
- Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
- Mark Twain, Roughin’ It
- Mari Sandoz, Cheyenne Autumn; Crazy Horse
- Patricia Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest; The Frontier in American Culture
- David Edmunds, Tecumseh; The Shawnee Prophet
- Richard Gamble, In Search of a City on a Hill
- Robert Carriker, Father Peter John DeSmet
- Robert Utley, The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull; Frontiersmen in Blue; Lone Star Justice; A Life Wild and Perilous
- Teddy Roosevelt, Winning of the West
- Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop; My Antonia; O Pioneers
- William Cronin, Nature’s Metropolis