- Canyons of the Colorado
- First through the Grand Canyon : Being the record of the pioneer exploration of the Colorado River in 1869-70
- On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data
- Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States, with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah
- Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians: First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
- Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society: Bureau of American Ethnology