Online Books

[Capt Hamp Cox]

Following is a list of a few old books available on line that pertain to old west and Texas history, and to some interesting individuals from those times and places.  I know you'll recognize some of the authors, and on others you'll recognize the subject matter.  They aren't Louis L'Amour, but some of the stories are at least as good.

Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid, The Noted Desperado of the Southwest, by Pat F. Garrett
o   http://www.blackmask.com/books33c/billythekid.htm

Cow-Country, by B. M. Bower
o   http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext99/cwcnt10.txt

Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate, by Eliza P. Donner Houghton
o   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/calbk:@field(DOCID+@lit(calbk187)):@@@$REF$

Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness, by Z. N. Morrell
o   http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AAW3495#resultstoc

Geronimo: His Own Story, by S. M. Barrett
o   http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/geronimo/geronixx.htm

Journal of the Texian Expedition Against Mier, by Thomas J. Green
o   http://www.smu.edu/swcenter/tjgreen/tjg_home.htm

Journey Through Texas: or, A Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier, by Frederick Law Olmsted
o   http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AAW3927

Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
o   http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext98/bbill10.txt

Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Martha Canary
o   http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext96/cjane10.txt

Life and Adventures of Nat Love, by Nat Love
o   http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/natlove/natlove.html

Mountain Meadows Massacre, by Josiah Francis Gibbs
o   http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/meadowscontents.htm

My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians, by George A. Custer
o   http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ACP4940

Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West, by Emerson Hough
o   http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext02/passf10.txt

Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, by Theodore Roosevelt
o   http://www.bartleby.com/54/

Remember the Alamo, by Amelia E. Barr
o   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=BarReme&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/eng-parsed&tag=public

Vigilantes of Montana, by Thomas Dimsdale
o   http://schmittroth.tripod.com/mont_vigi//dimsdale/toc.html