- Making the voyageur world, travelers and traders in the North American fur trade, Carolyn Podruchny
- The rediscovery of the frontier
- Handbook of the American frontier, four centuries of Indian-white relationships, by J. Norman Heard
- The massacre at Fall Creek, Jessamyn West
- Frontier women, "civilizing" the West? 1840-1880, Julie Roy Jeffrey
- Shane, a Paramount Picture ; George Steven's production ; produced and directed by George Stevens ; screenplay by A.B. Guthrie, Jr
- The first frontier, the forgotten history of struggle, savagery, and endurance in early America, Scott Weidensaul
- The new country, a social history of the American frontier, 1776-1890, Richard A. Bartlett
- No life for a lady, by Agnes Morley Cleaveland ; illustrations by Edward Borein
- The gentle tamers, women of the old Wild West, Dee Brown
- Jim Bridger, mountain man;, a biography
- Fur, fortune, and empire, the epic history of the fur trade in America, Eric Jay Dolin
- Shane, by Jack Schaefer
- African American frontiers, slave narratives and oral histories, Alan Govenar
- Two years' residence on the English prairie of Illinois., Edited by Paul M. Angle
- Reading the West, an anthology of dime westerns, edited by Bill Brown
- History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851;, a study of social control on the California frontier in the days of the gold rush
- The best land under heaven, the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny, Michael Wallis
- Border politics in a global era, comparative perspectives, Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso ; foreword by Tony Payan
- The gods of Prophetstown, the Battle of Tippecanoe and the holy war for the American frontier, Adam Jortner
- The frontier army in the settlement of the West, by Michael L. Tate
- Bad land, an American romance, Jonathan Raban
- Frontier children, Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith ; foreword by Elliott West
- The pioneer history of Illinois, containing the discovery, in 1673, and the history of the country to the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, when the state government was organized, by John Reynolds
- Lone Star justice, the first century of the Texas Rangers, Robert M. Utley
- The last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper ; with an introduction, historical essay, and notes by John McWilliams
- The American West, a new interpretive history, Robert V. Hine & John Mack Faragher
- Women in waiting in the westward movement, life on the home frontier, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith ; foreword by John Mack Faragher
- William Clark and the shaping of the West, Landon Y. Jones
- Custer's trials, a life on the frontier of a new America, T.J. Stiles
- The gold rush, produced and directed by Steven Boettcher and Michael Trinklein ; Boettcher/Trinklein Television, Inc
- 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
- Give your heart to the hawks, a tribute to the mountain men, Win Blevins
- The first four years, by Laura Ingalls Wilder ; illustrated by Garth Williams
- Mormon midwife, the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions, edited by Donna T. Smart
- The authentic life of Billy, the Kid:, the noted desperado of the Southwest, whose deeds of daring and blood made his name a terror in New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico, by Pat F. Garrett; with an introduction by J.C. Dykes
- Prospector, cowhand, and sodbuster, historic places associated with the mining, ranching, and farming frontiers in the trans-Mississippi West
- Measuring America, how an untamed wilderness shaped the United States and fulfilled the promise of democracy, Andro Linklater
- Daniel Boone, an American life, Michael A. Lofaro
- The farmers' frontier, 1865-1900, Gilbert C. Fite
- Flowering of the Cumberland, by Harriette Simpson Arnow
- Historic dress of the old West, Ernest Lisle Reedstrom ; edited by Gilbert Crontz ; color illustrations by Ernest Lisle Reedstrom
- The gentle tamers, women of the old Wild West
- The American cowboy, the myth & the reality, Joe B. Frantz and Julian Ernest Choate, Jr
- African American frontiers, slave narratives and oral histories, Alan Govenar
- Seedtime on the Cumberland, by Harriette Simpson Arnow
- New England frontier;, Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675, [by] Alden T. Vaughan
- The Mississippi Territory and the Southwest frontier, 1795-1817, Robert V. Haynes
- Children of the western plains, the nineteenth-century experience, Marilyn Irvin Holt
- Life writings of frontier women, being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer, edited by S. George Ellsworth, Vol. 3