James Nelson Barker
The Indian Princess; or, la Belle Sauvage. An Operatic Melo-drame (drama) 1808

Emerson Bennett
The Renegade (novel) 1848
The Forest Rose (novel) 1850

Robert Montgomery Bird
Nick of the Woods (novel) 1853

Charles Brockden Brown
Edgar Huntly (novel) 1799

James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757 (novel) 1826
The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (novel) 1829
The Deerslayer; or The First War-Path. A Tale (novel) 1841
Wyandotté; or, The Hutted Knoll (novel) 1843

Helen Hunt Jackson
A Century of Dishonor (nonfiction) 1881
Ramona (novel) 1885

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha (poem) 1855

Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man (novel) 1857

John Muir
Travels in Alaska (travel essay) 1915

Francis Parkman
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada (history) 1870

Frederic Remington
John Ermine of the Yellowstone (novel) 1902

Catharine Sedgwick
Hope Leslie (novel) 1827

William Gilmore Simms
“Lucas de Ayllon: A Historical Nouvellette” (short story) 1845
“Oakatibbe, or the Choctaw Sampson” (short story) 1845
The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina (novel) 1878

Ann S. Stephens
Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (novel) 1860

Henry David Thoreau
The Maine Woods (travel essays) 1864

Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad (travel essay) 1869
Roughing It (travel essay) 1872
“Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven” (short story) 1909