Books on Topic: 'Frontier'

Thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, complete wi...

A collection of short stories by author Jack London.

"The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our Eastern Empire, and...

James Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the...

This is a story of an adventure involving a young man, his dog, and two friends. Together they wander through the Western prairies on a mission to mak...

My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a...

“Max Brand", the most used pseudonym of Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944), is best known today for his western fiction. Faust began in the early tw...

Two-hundred years after a global nuclear war, two explorers from a research outpost, that largely survived the cataclysm, discover a settlement of hum...

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive s...

In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit with a long...

These twelve poems are taken from Ballads of a Cheechako which was Robert W. Service's third book of Yukon poems, published in 1909. The word Cheechak...

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944), is best known today for his western fiction. Faust was born in Seattle, Washington and at an early age moved wit...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 different recordings of The Face on the Barroom Floor by Hugh Antoine D'Arcy.

Breckinridge Elkins is the roughest, toughest, fastest-shootin', hardest-fightin' feller in the Bear Creek settlement, and probably in the entire Humb...

Maria Chapdelaine raconte la vie difficile d'une famille paysanne au Québec, au début des années 1900.

"Unroll the world’s map, and look upon the great northern continent of America. Away to the wild west, away toward the setting sun, away beyond many a...

Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Rufus King,...

Breckinridge Elkins is the roughest, toughest, fastest-shootin', hardest-fightin' feller in the Bear Creek settlement, and probably in the entire Humb...

Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life, experienc...

The Land God Forgot is a collection of poems by Robert W. Service, known for his evocative portrayal of the Canadian wilderness, particularly the Yuko...

'Man from Snowy River and Other Verses' is a collection of poems by Australian poet Andrew Barton Paterson, known as 'Banjo' Paterson. This collectio...

George Armstrong Custer's 'My Life on the Plains' is a first-hand account of his experiences in the Indian Wars of the 1860s and 1870s. Written in a...

This book chronicles the epic journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led an expedition from 1804 to 1806 to explore the uncharted wilderne...

This book delves into the history of California's Spanish missions during the early 1800s, exploring the lives of both indigenous peoples and Spanish...