- The buffalo
- Frontier women, "civilizing" the West? 1840-1880, Julie Roy Jeffrey
- The Oregon Trail;, sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life. With biographical illus. and pictures of the setting of the book, together with an introd. by Harry Sinclair Drago
- Newspapering in the Old West;, a pictorial history of journalism and printing on the frontier,, by Robert F. Karolevitz
- The gentle tamers, women of the old Wild West, Dee Brown
- Native American tech
- Jim Bridger, mountain man;, a biography
- Fight no more forever
- The final challenge; the American frontier, 1804-1845
- Men of the West, life on the American frontier, Cathy Luchetti
- The townsmen, by the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Keith Wheeler
- Light in the West, photographers of the American frontier 1860-1880, a co-production of Blackwood Productions, Inc., Bayerischer Rundfunk, South Carolina Educational Television Network, Swedish Television
- Reading the West, an anthology of dime westerns, edited by Bill Brown
- The frontier army in the settlement of the West, by Michael L. Tate
- Advancing the frontier, 1830-1860, [by] Grant Foreman
- Bad land, an American romance, Jonathan Raban
- The American West, a new interpretive history, Robert V. Hine & John Mack Faragher
- Death runs riot
- Love untamed, romances of the Old West, JoAnn Chartier, Chris Enss
- The three-cornered war, the Union, the Confederacy, and native peoples in the fight for the West, Megan Kate Nelson
- Jim Bridger
- The Bonanza West;, the story of the Western mining rushes, 1848-1900
- The best land under heaven, the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny, Michael Wallis
- Vanguards of the frontier,, a social history of the northern plains and Rocky mountains from the earliest white contacts to the coming of the homemaker,, by Everett Dick ..
- Frontier children, Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith ; foreword by Elliott West
- The geography of hope
- Wily women of the West
- Mormon midwife, the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions, edited by Donna T. Smart
- No place to call home, the 1807-1857 life writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, chronicler of outlying Mormon communities, edited by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth
- Issues of westward expansion, Mitchel Roth
- Women in waiting in the westward movement, life on the home frontier, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith ; foreword by John Mack Faragher
- Give your heart to the hawks, a tribute to the mountain men, Win Blevins
- The frontier against slavery;, Western anti-Negro prejudice and the slavery extension controversy, [by] Eugene H. Berwanger
- Cowboys of the Americas, by Richard W. Slatta
- Pioneer trails West, by the Western Writers of America ; Don Worcester, editor
- William Clark and the shaping of the West, Landon Y. Jones
- Best of Dee Brown's West, an anthology, Dee Brown ; edited by Stan Banash
- The West, Ken Burns presents ; directed by Stephen Ives ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward & Dayton Duncan ; produced by Stephen Ives, Jody Abramson, Michael Kantor ; senior producer, Ken Burns ; a co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV Washington ; in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television ; The West Film Project, Inc., Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc
- The last American frontier
- The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860
- Prospector, cowhand, and sodbuster, historic places associated with the mining, ranching, and farming frontiers in the trans-Mississippi West
- Sacagawea's child, the life and times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau, by Susan M. Colby
- The American cowboy, the myth & the reality, Joe B. Frantz and Julian Ernest Choate, Jr
- The gentle tamers, women of the old Wild West
- Historic dress of the old West, Ernest Lisle Reedstrom ; edited by Gilbert Crontz ; color illustrations by Ernest Lisle Reedstrom
- Kit Carson's autobiography, edited by Milo Milton Quaife
- Western mining;, an informal account of precious-metals prospecting, placering, lode mining, and milling on the American frontier from Spanish times to 1893,, by Otis E. Young, Jr. With the technical assistance of Robert Lenon
- Wagons west, the epic story of America's overland trails, Frank McLynn
- Cowboy presidents, the frontier myth and U.S. politics since 1900, David A. Smith
- One sky above us