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Donner Lake from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird (1879)

Isabella L. Bird’s story “Donner Lake” from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

Meeting Mountain Jim from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird (1879)

Isabella L. Bird’s story “Meeting Mountain Jim” from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

The Wild West from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird (1879)

Isabella L. Bird’s story “The Wild West” from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

Climbing Long's Peak from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird (1879)

Isabella L. Bird’s story “Climbing Long’s Peak” from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

Nellie Bly's story Meeting Jules Verne from Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890)

Nellie Bly’s story “Meeting Jules Verne” from Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890)

Nellie Bly's story Exotic Aden from Around the World in Seventy-Two Days (1890)

Nellie Bly’s story “Exotic Aden” from Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890)

Nellie Bly's story Seasickness from Around the World in 72 Days (1890)

Nellie Bly’s story “Seasickness” from Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890)

Nellie Bly's story About in Colombo from Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890)

Nellie Bly’s story “About in Colombo” from Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890)

Fred Burnaby's story Kirghiz Marriage from A Ride to Khiva (1877)

Fred Burnaby’s story “Kirghiz Marriage” from A Ride to Khiva (1877)

Richard Henry Dana's story Loss of a Man from Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Richard Henry Dana’s story “Loss of a Man” from Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Richard Henry Dana's story A Flogging from Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Richard Henry Dana’s story “A Flogging” from Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Richard Henry Dana's story Easter in Santa Barbara from Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Richard Henry Dana’s story “Easter in Santa Barbara” from Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Richard Henry Dana's story Exploring San Diego from Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Richard Henry Dana’s story “Exploring San Diego” from Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Charles Dickens's story The Passage Home from American Notes (1842)

Charles Dickens’s story “The Passage Home” from American Notes (1842)

Richard Halliburton's story Faraway Andorra from The Royal Road to Romance (1925)

Richard Halliburton’s story “Faraway Andorra” from The Royal Road to Romance (1925)

Jack London's story The Nature Man from The Cruise of the Snark (1911)

Jack London’s story “The Nature Man” from The Cruise of the Snark (1911)

Herman Melville's story The Feast of the Calabashes from Typee (1846)

Herman Melville’s story “The Feast of the Calabashes” from Typee (1846)

Mark Twain's story Athens by Stealth from The Innocents Abroad (1869)

Mark Twain’s story “Athens by Stealth” from The Innocents Abroad (1869)

The Feast of the Calabashes from Typee by Herman Melville (1846)

Herman Melville’s story “The Feast of the Calabashes” from Typee (1846)

The Passage Home from American Notes by Charles Dickens (1842)

Charles Dickens’s story “The Passage Home” from American Notes (1842)

Lost in a Blizzard from Roughing It by Mark Twain (1872)

Mark Twain’s story “Lost in a Blizzard” from Roughing It (1872)

The Wild West from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird (1879)

Isabella L. Bird’s story “The Wild West” from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

Joshua Slocum's story Samoan Paradise from Sailing Alone Around the World (1900)

Joshua Slocum’s story “Samoan Paradise” from Sailing Alone Around the World (1900)

Mark Twain's story A Disturbing Incident from Following the Equator (1897)

Mark Twain’s story “A Disturbing Incident” from Following the Equator (1897)

Isabella L. Bird's story Donner Lake from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

Isabella L. Bird’s story “Donner Lake” from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

Nellie Bly's story Meeting Jules Verne from Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890)

Nellie Bly’s story “Meeting Jules Verne” from Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890)

Richard Henry Dana's story Loss of a Man from Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Richard Henry Dana’s story “Loss of a Man” from Two Years Before the Mast (1840)

Robert Louis Stevenson's story Lost in the Dark from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)

Robert Louis Stevenson’s story “Lost in the Dark” from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)

Theodore Roosevelt's story Murder on the River of Doubt from Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914)

Theodore Roosevelt’s story “Murder on the River of Doubt” from Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914)

Nelly Bly's story Exotic Aden from Around the World in 72 Days (1890)

Nelly Bly’s story “Exotic Aden” from Around the World in 72 Days (1890)

Rober Louis Stevenson's story Bouchet St. Nicholas from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)

Robert Louis Stevenson’s story “Bouchet St. Nicholas” from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)

Isabella L. Bird's story Climbing Long's Peak from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

Isabella L. Bird’s story “Climbing Long’s Peak” from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

Jack London's story The Nature Man from The Cruise of the Snark (1911)

Jack London’s story “The Nature Man” from The Cruise of the Snark (1911)

A Sleepless Night from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)

Mark Twain’s story “A Sleepless Night” from A Tramp Abroad (1880)

Meeting Mountain Jim from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird (1879)

Isabella L. Bird’s story “Meeting Mountain Jim” from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879)

Nellie Bly's story About in Colombo from Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890)

Nellie Bly’s story “About in Colombo” from Around the World in Seventy-two Days (1890)

Mark Twain's story By Train in India from Following the Equator (1897)

Mark Twain’s story “By Train in India” from Following the Equator (1897)

Richard Halliburton's story Faraway Andorra from The Royal Road to Romance (1925)

Richard Halliburton’s story “Faraway Andorra” from The Royal Road to Romance (1925)

Tarantulas on the Loose from Roughing It by Mark Twain (1872)

Mark Twain’s story “Tarantulas on the Loose” from Roughing It (1872)

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John Muir's story Camping Among the Tombs from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916)

John Muir’s story “Camping Among the Tombs” from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916)

Theodore Roosevelt's story Murder on the River of Doubt from Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914)

Theodore Roosevelt’s story “Murder on the River of Doubt” from Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914)

Joshua Slocum's story Samoan Paradise from Sailing Alone Around the World (1900)

Joshua Slocum’s story “Samoan Paradise” from Sailing Alone Around the World (1900)

Joshua Slocum's story Encountering Black Pedro from Sailing Alone Around the World (1900)

Joshua Slocum’s story “Encountering Black Pedro” from Sailing Alone Around the World (1900)

Robert Louis Stevenson's story Lost in the Dark from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)

Robert Louis Stevenson’s story “Lost in the Dark” from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)

Robert Louis Stevenson's story Bouchet St. Nicholas from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)

Robert Louis Stevenson’s story “Bouchet St. Nicholas” from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)

Robert Louis Stevenson's story La Fère of Cursed Memory An Inland Voyage (1878)

Robert Louis Stevenson’s story “La Fère of Cursed Memory” from An Inland Voyage (1879)

Henry David Thoreau's story Uncle George's Place from The Maine Woods (1864)

Henry David Thoreau’s story “Uncle George’s Place” from The Maine Woods (1864)

Mark Twain's story Tarantulas on the Loose from Roughing It (1872)

Mark Twain’s story “Tarantulas on the Loose” from Roughing It (1872)

Lost in a Blizzard from Roughing It by Mark Twain (1872)

Mark Twain’s story “Lost in a Blizzard” from Roughing It (1872)

Mark Twain's story A Disturbing Incident from Following the Equator (1897)

Mark Twain’s story “A Disturbing Incident” from Following the Equator (1897)

Mark Twain's story Athens by Stealth from The Innocents Abroad (1869)

Mark Twain’s story “Athens by Stealth” from The Innocents Abroad (1869)

Mark Twain's story An Awkward Encounter from A Tramp Abroad (1880)

Mark Twain’s story “An Awkward Encounter” from A Tramp Abroad (1880)

Mark Twain's story Journey to Benares from Following the Equator (1897)

Mark Twain’s story “Journey to Benares” from Following the Equator (1897)

Mark Twain's story Carson City 1861 from Roughing It (1872)

Mark Twain’s story “Carson City 1861” from Roughing It (1872)

Mark Twain's story Lake Tahoe from Roughing It (1872)

Mark Twain’s story “Lake Tahoe” from Roughing It (1872)

Mark Twain's story An Archangel from Life on the Mississippi (1883)

Mark Twain’s story “An Archangel” from Life on the Mississippi (1883)

Mark Twain's story A Sleepless Night from A Tramp Abroad (1880)

Mark Twain’s story “A Sleepless Night” from A Tramp Abroad (1880)

Mark Twain's story By Train in India from Following the Equator (1897)

Mark Twain’s story “By Train in India” from Following the Equator (1897)