References:

General Historical Reading: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/intro/bib.html

Literature:

U. of Iowa, English Course: The Literature of the American West; Resources

Mark Twain's "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum: Western Heritage Awards: Novels

Dictionary of Western Authors

Western Writers of America; fiction and non-fiction