A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Philadelphia, E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore, Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Davy Crockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
Life of David Crockett, the Original Humorist and Irrepressible Backwoodsman: Comprising His Early History; His Bear Hunting and Other Adventures; His Services in the Creek War; His Electioneering Speeches and Career in Congress; with His Triumphal Tour Through the Northern States, and Services in the Texas War. To Which is Added an Account of His Glorious Death at the Alamo While Fighting in Defence of Texan Independence (Philadelphia: J.E. Potter and Co., c1865), by Davy Crockett, contrib. by Richard Penn Smith
- page images at HathiTrust
- multiple formats at archive.org
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures (New York: Dodd and Mead, 1875), by John S. C. Abbott
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures, by John S. C. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
The Story of the Filibusters; To Which is Added the Life of Colonel David Crockett (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by James Jeffrey Roche
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone; Crockett; Carson (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Filed under: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin (multiple editions)
The Autobiography and Other Writings, by Benjamin Franklin (HTML at Bibliomania)
Benjamin Franklin, Printer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., for the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, 1917), by John Clyde Oswald
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed: A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on His Own Writings (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by William Cabell Bruce
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Four American Leaders (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1906), by Charles William Eliot (Gutenberg text)
Franklin and the University; Frankliniana in the University Library (reprinted from the "Alumni Register" of the University of Pennsylvania, 1906), by J. G. Rosengarten and Morris Jastrow (page images at HathiTrust)
From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin, by William M. Thayer (Gutenberg text)
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, by M. L. Weems (frame-dependent page images at antiquebooks.net)
Life of Benjamin Franklin: A Continuation of Franklin's Autobiography, by Jared Sparks (HTML at ushistory.org)
Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania (Washington: GPO, 1893), ed. by Francis Newton Thorpe (multiple formats at archive.org)
Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution, by Bruce E. Johansen (HTML at ratical.org)
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Six Historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant, the Fathers and Saviors of Our Republic, Freethinkers (New York: Truth Seeker Co., ca. 1906), by John E. Remsburg
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Gadsden, Christopher, 1724-1805

Christopher Gadsden and the American Revolution (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1982), by E. Stanly Godbold and Robert H. Woody (PDF at Newfound Press)

Filed under: Gibson, Walter Murray

The Fantastic Life of Walter Murray Gibson, Hawaii's Minister of Everything (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1986), by Jacob Adler and Robert M. Kamins (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

Filed under: Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Eulogy on General Alexander Hamilton, Pronounced at the Request of the Citizens of Boston, July 26, 1804 (Albany, NY: C. R. and G. Webster, 1804), by Harrison Gray Otis (page images at Ohio Memory)
A Sketch of the Character of Alexander Hamilton (Boston: Repertory Office, 1804), by Fisher Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
Alexander Hamilton: A Study of the Revolution and the Union (Cincinnati: Jones Brothers and Co, 1883), by John Clark Ridpath (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
Martin Van Buren's Calumnies Repudiated: Hamilton's Conduct as Secretary of the Treasury Vindicated (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by James A. Hamilton
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Works of Alexander Hamilton (Constitutional edition, 12 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ca. 1903), by Alexander Hamilton, ed. by Henry Cabot Lodge
Observations on Certain Documents Contained in No. V and VI of "The History of the United States for the Year 1796," In Which the Charge of Speculation Against Alexander Hamilton, Late Secretary of the Treasury, is Fully Refuted (also known as the "Reynolds pamphlet"; Philadelphia: Printed for J. Fenno by J. Bioren, 1797), by Alexander Hamilton
- HTML at Michigan
- PDF at nymag.com
Love-Children: A Book of Illustrious Illegitimates (New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931), by Miriam Allen De Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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