Memoir/history hybrids

I’m looking for examples of research-based, historical creative nonfiction that includes the narrator.

I’m currently reading Oranges by John McPhee and just finished Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller, both of which include the narrator’s presence but neither of them are specifically history, more science.

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald talks about E.B. White, but he’s a writer so it’s often about his work.

The men I’m researching don’t have writing or journals I can read but participated in an interesting part of the history of the American West.

Books on western history such as Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher (Timothy Egan), Fire and Brimstone (Michael Punke) are beautiful but don’t have an “I” character. The Indifferent Stars Above (can’t remember author rn) has the narrator present only in the intro and epilogue, as far as I can remember.

The best I can think of is Becoming Little Shell by Chris LaTray, but that is primarily memoir with history included.