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Settler Literature Archive

The Settler Literature Archive is a digital collection of late seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century texts that include settler narratives from the United States, Canada, Australia, and South America. They have been collected from a number of sources including Project Gutenburg, Google Books, and various university libraries. These texts are referenced by Professor Rebecca Weaver-Hightower in her book Frontier Fictions: Settler Sagas and Postcolonial Guilt (2019).

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The Emigrant and Sportsman in Canada

John J. Rowan
My Chief and I and Five Years Later

Atherton Wylde
Among the Zulus; The Adventures of Hans Sterk, South African Hunter and Pioneer

A. (Alfred) W. (Wilks) Drayson R.A.
George Linton; or, the First Years of an English Colony

John Robinson F.R.G.S.
The Big Brother A Story of Indian War

George Cary Eggleston
Wild Western Scenes: A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described

John Beauchamp Jones
Stories of Childhood, The Lost Child

Henry Kingsley
Mission Life Among the Zulu-Kafirs

Anne MacKenzie
Planting the Wilderness; or, The Pioneer Boys A Story of Frontier Life

James D. McCabe Jr.
The Sons of the Border, Sketches of the Life and People of the Far Frontier

James William Steele
Australia Felix or Harlequin Laughing Jackass and the Magic Bat

Garnet Walch
An Australian Parsonage or the Settler and the Savage in Western Australia

Janet Millett
The Children on the Plains

Sarah Schoonmaker Baker
Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales

Rolf Boldrewood
The Reminiscences of an Albany Settler

H. (Henry) H. (Hare) Dugmore
The "B. O. W. C."

James De Mille
The Cabin on the Prairie

Charles Henry Pearson
Afar in the Forest; or, Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Wilds of Canada

Catherine Parr Traill
Lyntonville, or, The Irish Boy in Canada

American Tract Society
Literature in New South Wales

G. (George) B. (Burnett) Barton
The Net Cast in Many Waters Sketches from the Life of Missionaries for 1866

Anne MacKenzie
Scenes and Adventures, as a Soldier and Settler During Half a Century

J. W. Dunbar Moodie
On the Frontier or Scenes in the West

Charles Henry Pearson
Adventures by Sea and Land of the Count DeGanay; or the Devotion and Fidelity of Woman

Henri Emile Chevalier
A Pilgrimage over the Prairies

Phillip Ruysdale

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