• Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, First Series. Indian Tales and Legends, Vol. 1 of 2
• Alhalla, or the Lord of Talladega: A Tale of the Creek War.: With Some Selected Miscellanies, Chiefly of Early Date.
• An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois: Also, Genundewah, a Poem
• Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History: An address, delivered before the New York Historical; Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846
• Literature of the Indian Languages: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Books, Translations of the Scriptures, and Other Publications in the Indian Tongues of the United States, With Brief Critical Notes
• Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River: Embracing an Exploratory Trip Through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) Rivers
• Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-York
• Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
• Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas
• Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820: Resumed and Completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832
• The American Indians: Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts
• The Indian Fairy Book: From the Original Legends
• The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America: From Original Notes and Manuscripts
• The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
• Western Scenes and Reminiscences: Together with Thrilling Legends and Traditions of the Red Men of the Forest