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Title	Edition	Year of Publication	Contributors	Country of Publication	Possible Copyright Status				Available Online?
'49		1925	George W. (George William) Cronyn
Adobe days: being the truthful narrative of the events in the life of a California girl on a sheep ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles while it was yet a small and humble town; together with an account of how three young men from Maine in eighteen hundred and fifty-three drove sheep and cattle across the plains, mountains and deserts from Illinois to the Pacific coast; and the strange prophecy of Admiral Thatcher about San Pedro harbor		1925	Sarah Bixby Smith
Adventuring in California, yesterday, today, and day before yesterday		1921	Jessie Heaton Parkinson
The affair of the heavenly voice		1937	Clifford Knight
Along the Pacific by land and sea, through the Golden Gate		1916	Charles William Johnston
American blue book (Boswell) California lawyers		1928	Harry James Boswell
The Anza expedition of 1775-1776		1913	Pedro Font, Frederick John Teggart
Anza's California expeditions		1930	Francisco Palóu, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Juan. Díaz
The Argonauts of 1769: a narrative of the occupation of San Diego and Monterey by Don Gaspar de Portolá		1936	Fred William Atkinson
As I remember them		1913	C. C. (Charles Carroll) Goodwin
Back fire: a California story		1927	Lola Jean. Simpson
Beyond the Sierras: a tour of sixty days through the valleys of California		1963	John Clark Ridpath
A bibliography of the history of California, 1510-1930		1933	Robert Ernest Cowan, Robert G. (Robert Granniss) Cowan
A bibliography of the history of California and the Pacific west 1510-1906		1914	John Whipple Dwinelle, Robert Ernest Cowan
Bill's mistake: a story of the California redwoods		1921	Robert Gale Barson
Blue-blossomed garden: poems of California		1927	Louise Marny Muller
Boys' and girls'		1925	Ethel Imogene Salisbury
The bride of Mission San José: a tale of early California		1920	John Augustine Cull
California		1929
California - beginnings		1933	Lola B. Hoffman, Maurice Hudkins
California: a history of Upper & Lower California from their first discovery to the present time: comprising an account of the climate, soil, natural productions, agriculture, commerce, &c. A full view of the missionary establishments and condition of the free & domesticated Indians, with an appendix relating to steam-navigation in the Pacific, illustrated with a new map, plans of the harbors and numerous engravings		1919	Alexander Forbes
California, a landmark history: story of the preservation and marking of early day shrines		1941	Joseph Russell Knowland
California: a romantic story for young people		1926	Howard L. Hastings, J. Walker McSpadden
California: a song of the ultimate West		1926	Henry Meade Bland
California: all of it		1925	Marshall Breeden
California all the way back to 1828		1956	Michael C. (Michael Claringbud) White, Thomas Savage
California: an intimate guide		1935	Aubrey Drury
California: an intimate history		1927	Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
California: an intimate history		1914	Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
California and Californians		1926	Rockwell Dennis Hunt, Mrs. (Van de Grift) Nellie Sanchez, Nellie Van
California and Californians		1930	Rockwell Dennis Hunt, Mrs. (Van de Grift) Nellie Sanchez, Nellie Van
California and Californians		1932	Rockwell Dennis Hunt, Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
California and Pacific coast for the tourist		1914
California and the far West		1914	Kate Ethel Mary Dumbell
California and the opening of the gateway between the Atlantic and the Pacific		1916
California as is		1927	Lucia Shepardson
California as it is & as it may be: or, A guide to the gold region		1933	George D. (George Dunlap) Lyman, Felix Paul Wierzbicki
The California birthday book: prose and poetical selections from the writings of living California authors, with a brief biographical sketch of each		1909	George Wharton James
California caballero		1936	William Colt MacDonald
California coast trails		1913	J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton) Chase
California desert trails		1919	J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton) Chase
The California deserts: a visitor's handbook		1933	Edmund Carroll Jaeger, Samuel Stillman Berry, Malcolm Jennings Rogers
California from legendary island to statehood: an exhibition at the Huntington Library		1933	John Carl Parish
California: from the Plains of the pioneers to the summit of achievement		1951	Lelia (Ayer) Mitchell
A California girl		1902	Edward Eldridge, Edward Eldridge
A California gold rush miscellany: comprising: the original journal of Alexander Barrington, nine unpublished letters from the gold mines, reproductions of early maps and towns from California lithographs; broadsides, &c., &c		1934	Jane Bissell Grabhorn
California gold: the beginning of mining in the Far West		1947	Rodman W. (Rodman Wilson) Paul
California heritage: an anthology of history and literature		1962	LaRee Caughey, John Walton Caughey
California in 1851 [-1852]		1933	Dame Shirley, Carl Irving Wheat
California: its history and romance		1911	John S. M, John Steven McGroarty
California: life, resources, and industries of the Golden state		1936	Smith Joseph Russell, J. Russell (Joseph Russell) Smith
California of the south: a history		1933	John Steven McGroarty
California, our western wonderland		1927	George Wharton James, Felix J. (Felix John) Koch
A California pilgrimage		1921	William Ingraham Kip, Louis Childs Sanford
The California Plutarch		1935	John Steven McGroarty
The California progressives		1951	George E. (George Edwin) Mowry
California, romantic and beautiful: the history of its old missions and of its Indians; a survey of its climate, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers, valleys, islands and coast line; a description of its recreations and festivals; a review of its industries; an account of its influence upon prophets, poets, artists and architects; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, traveller, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker		1914	George Wharton James
California, romantic and resourceful: a plea for the collection, preservation and diffusion of information relating to Pacific Coast history		1914	John Francis Davis
California's story		1922	Ephraim Douglass Adams, Herbert Eugene Bolton
California stories		1930	Mary Belle Murray
California sunshine: a book of verse		1929	Michael Joseph Mahoney
California the beautiful: camera studies by California artists; with selections in prose and verse from western writers		1911	Paul Elder
California the golden		1911	Rockwell Dennis Hunt
California, the new empire state: a regional geography		1957	Paul Francis Griffin, Robert N. Young
California, the state everybody loves		1935	Rockwell Dennis Hunt
California the wonderful		1914	Edwin Markham
California tourist guide and handbooks		1913	Wells Drury, Aubrey Drury
California under Spain and Mexico, 1535-1847: a contribution toward the history of the Pacific coast of the United States, based on original sources (chiefly manuscript) in the Spanish and Mexican archives and other repositories		1911	Irving Berdine Richman
California--its amazing story		1949	Marian Chaddock Bruner
California-beginnings		1936	Margery Ragle Wahler, Lola B. Hoffman, Maurice Hudkins
California		1929	Harry Laurenz Wells, John Steven McGroarty
California		1934	Vito M Silvis
California		1915	William Forgo
The Californiacs		1916	Inez Haynes Gillmore
The Californian: a romance of the last frontier		1936	Thomas Grant Springer
Californian trails, intimate guide to the old missions: the story of the California missions		1920	Trowbridge Hall
The call of gold: true tales on the gold road to Yosemite		1936	Newell D. Chamberlain
Caminos viejos; tales found in the history of California of especial interest to those who love the valleys, the hills and the canyons of Orange County, its traditions and its landmarks		1930	Terry Elmo Stephenson
The cattle on a thousand hills: Southern California, 1850-1870		1941	Robert Glass Cleland
The cattle on a thousand hills: Southern California 1850-1880	[2d ed.]	1951	Robert Glass Cleland
The charm of California's Northland		1923	Evelyn E. Underwood
Civil government in California		1916	John Richard Sutton
Cold embers: a romance of old California		1931	Mrs Corinne King Wright
Commercial geography of southern California		1915	Frank Rolfe
A composition course in American government: and pupils' handbook to state series text		1912	Arthur William Dunn, P. F. (Percy Friars) Valentine
The conquest of California: a biography of William B. Ide		1944	Simeon Ide
The contest for California in 1861		1912	Elijah Robinson Kennedy
Continent's end: an anthology of contemporary California poets		1925	James Rorty, Genevieve Taggard, George Sterling
Cornelius Cole, California pioneer and United States senator: a study in personality and achievements bearing upon the growth of a commonwealth		1929	Catherine Coffin Phillips
The crimson trail of Joaquin Murieta		1928	Ernest Klette
The cruise of the Portsmouth, 1845-1847: a sailor's view of the naval conquest of California		1958	Joseph T. Downey
The cubby-bears in California		1928	Julia Woodworth Le Count, George C. (George Cleveland) Kyte
A dangerous journey		1950	J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
Dawn and the dons: the romance of Monterey		1926	Jo Mora, Tirey Lafayette Ford
A day in the hills		1926	Henry Meade Bland
Death valley		1930	Bourke Lee
Death Valley in '49	Centennial ed.	1949	William Lewis Manly
Death Valley in '49: an important chapter of California pioneer history; the autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the gold mines of California and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave Death Valley its name		1929	John Steven McGroarty, Alson Clark, William Lewis Manly
Desert dwellers: poems		1930	L. Sandra Deeth (pseudonym)
The desert thoroughbred: a romance of the California desert country		1926	Jackson Gregory
Diary of a physician in California: being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc		1955	James Lawrence Tyson
The diary of Johann August Sutter		1932	Douglas S. (Douglas Sloane) Watson, John Augustus Sutter
Diary of Nelson Kingsley, a California argonaut of 1849		1914	Nelson Kingsley, Frederick John Teggart
The diary of Philip Leget Edwards		1932	Douglas Sloane Watson, Philip Leget Edwards
Die Amerikafahrt		1935	Heinrich Ernst Kromer, Dorus Kromer
Don Agustin V. Zamorano		1934	George L. (George Laban) Harding
Don Sagasto's daughter: a romance of southern California		1911	Paul Harcourt Blades
Doniphan's expedition and the conquest of New Mexico and California		1907	John Taylor Hughes, D. C. (Dewitt Clinton) Allen, Charles R. Morehead
Drake's plate of brass, evidence of his visit to California in 1579		1937	Eleanor Bancroft, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Douglas Sloane Watson
Early days in California: scenes and events of the '50s as I remember them		1925
Echoes of the past		1962	John Bidwell
Edward Fitzgerald Beale		1912	Stephen Bonsal
Eldorado: or, California as seen by a pioneer, 1850-1900		1900	David Augustus Shaw
The emigrants' guide to Oregon and California		1932	Lansford Warren Hastings, Charles Henry Carey
An epic on California		1938	Louise Catherine Vallet Anderson
The EPIC plan for California		1934	Upton Sinclair
The everlasting whisper		1922	Jackson Gregory
The expedition into California of the Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra and his companions in the year 1769		1934	Francisco Palóu, Douglas S. (Douglas Sloane) Watson, José de Gálvez
The expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate		1911	Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Expedition to San Francisco Bay in 1770, diary of Pedro Fages		1911	Pedro Fages, Herbert Eugene Bolton
Express and stagecoach days in California		1936	Oscar Osburn Winther
The Farallones, The painted world, and other poems of California: with fifty-three illustrations, and with a supplementary history and description of the Farallones, including notes on their plant, bird, and animal life		1934	Milton S. (Milton Smith) Ray
Fifteen decisive events of California history		1959	Rockwell Dennis Hunt
Filings from an old saw: reminiscences of San Francisco and California's conquest		1956	Joseph T. Downey
Finding the worth while in California		1930	Charles Francis Saunders
Finding the worth while in California		1916	Charles Francis Saunders
The first forty-niner and the story of the golden tea-caddy		1925	James Augustin Brown Scherer
A forty-niner speaks: a chronological record of a New Yorker and his adventures in various mining localities in California, his return trip across Nicaragua, including several descriptions of the changes in San Francisco and other mining centers from March 1849 to January 1851		1930	Hiram Dwight Pierce, Sarah Wiswall Meyer
The forty-niners		1921	Stewart Edward White
The forty-niners: a chronicle of the California trail and El Dorado		1918	Stewart Edward White
The founding of Spanish California: the northwestward expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783		1916	Charles Edward Chapman
The founding of the first California missions under the spiritual guidance of the Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra: an historical account of the expeditions sent by land and sea in the year 1769		1934	Francisco Palóu, Douglas S. (Douglas Sloane) Watson, Thomas Workman Temple
Four walls in the open		1929	Edward Coppée Thurston
Frémont and '49		1914	Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
Franciscan explorations in California		1946	Herbert Ingram Priestley, Lillian Estelle Fisher
A Frenchman in the gold rush: the journal of Ernest de Massey, argonaut of 1849		1928	Marguerite Eyer Wilbur, Ernest de. Massey
Fulfillment: a California novel		1916	Emma Wolf
The Gentleman on horseback		1935	Bernard McConville
Gentleman rovers		1913	E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
The geography of California		1912	Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks
A Gil Blas in California		1933	Marguerite Eyer Wilbur, Alexandre Dumas, Fbil Townsend Hanna
The girl o' the mountains: a story of the West and California in the days of '49		1926	George W. Greene
Glances at California, 1847-1853: diaries and letters of William Rich Hutton		1942	Wm. R. (William Rich) Hutton, Willard O. (Willard Otis) Waters
Glory roads: the psychological state of California		1936	Samuel L. Lewis, Luther Whiteman
Gold am Pazifik: eine erzählung aus Kaliforniens grossen tagen		1935	Josef Eberle
Gold and sunshine: reminiscences of early California		1922	James J. Ayers
Gold days		1929	Owen Cochran Coy
The gold hunters		1917	John David Borthwick, Horace Kephart
Gold rush by sea		1941	Garrett W. Low, Kenneth Haney
Gold rush country: guide to California's Mother Lode & northern mines	[1st ed.]	1957
Gold rush steamers of the Pacific		1938	Ernest A. (Ernest Abram) Wiltsee
Gold seekers of 4́9		1915	Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
Gold		1913	Eugene F. (Eugene Francis) Saxton, Thomas Fos, Stewart Edward White
The golden crucible: an introduction to the history of American California: 1850-1905		1930	Blake Ross
A golden highway: scenes of history's greatest gold rush yesterday and today		1934	Carl B. (Carl Burgess) Glasscock
The Golden Road: the story of California's Spanish mission trail		1962	Felix Riesenberg
Golden shore: a novel of the conquest of California		1943	George Armin Shaftel
The golden West, souvenir: primitive years in California		1919	James Alexander Forbes
Government in California		1925	David Prescott Barrows, Thomas N. Barrows
The government of California	Rev. ed.	1948	Wiley W. Mather, Frank Abbott Magruder
The great California deserts		1963	W. Storrs (William Storrs) Lee
Greater Los Angeles and southern California: their portraits and chronological record of their careers		1906	Robert J. (Robert Jones) Burdette
Grimhaven		1928	Robert Joyce Tasker
The gringos: a story of the old California days in 1849		1913	B. M. Bower, Anton Otto Fischer
Happenings: a series of sketches of the great California out-of-doors		1929	W. P. Bartlett
Happenings; a series of sketches of the great California out-of-doors		1927	W. P. Bartlett
The happy pilgrimage		1927	Corra Harris
Heroes of California: the story of the founders of the Golden state as narrated by themselves or gleaned from other sources		1910	George Wharton James
Historical memoirs of New California		1926	Francisco Palóu, Herbert Eugene Bolton
A historical, political, and natural description of California		1937	Pedro Fages, Herbert Ingram Priestley
History and genealogy of the Pearsall family in England and America		1929	Hettie May Pearsall, Harry L. Neall, Clarence E. Pearsall
History of California		1908	Helen Elliott Bandini, Roy J. Warren
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties		1907	James Miller Guinn
History of California, ed		1915	Zoeth Skinner Eldridge
A history of California: the American period		1922	Robert Glass Cleland
A history of California: the Spanish period		1921	Charles Edward Chapman
History of California		1963	Hubert Howe Bancroft
History of San José rancho		1920	Frank Parkhurst Brackett
Hollywood: the story of the Cahuengas		1926	Emily Barker Carter
The home and its relation to the world		1921	Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks
How many miles from St. Jo?: The log of Sterling B. F. Clark, a forty-niner		1929	Ella Sterling Mighels, Sterling B. F. Clark, James Phelan
How to enjoy 1 to 10 perfect days in San Francisco		1961	Jack. Shelton
The Humboldt bay region, 1850-1875: a study in the American colonization of California		1930	Owen Cochran Coy
I, candidate for governor: and how I got licked		1935	Upton Sinclair
In the footprints of the padres		1912	Charles Warren Stoddard
Incidents in the life of Mrs. Leland Stanford		1934	Bertha Berner
Incredible land: a jaunty Baedeker to Hollywood and the great Southwest		1933	Basil Dillon Woon, Wynn
The inside story of the gold rush		1935	J. A. (Jacques Antoine) Moerenhout, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, G. Ezra (George Ezra) Dane
J. Ross Browne's illustrated mining adventures: California & Nevada, 1863-1865		1961	J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
Joaquin Miller, his California diary, beginning in 1855 & ending in 1857		1936	John Stewart Richards, Joaquin Miller
A journal of the overland route to California & the gold mines		1950	Lorenzo D. Aldrich
Journals of forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles, with diaries and contemporary records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and others		1954	Ann W. (Ann Woodbury) Hafen, LeRoy R. (LeRoy Reuben) Hafen
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, discoverer of the coast of California		1941	Henry Raup Wagner
Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo		1948	Barbara Clar
Junípero Serra, pioneer colonist of California		1933	Agnes Repplier
Key to American citizenship: the result of three years' teaching in the Citizenship school of the city of Oakland		1916	Lyman Grimes
The King's Highway: a romance of the Franciscan order in Alta California		1913	Madeline Deaderick Willard
L'or: la merveilleuse histoire du général Johann August Suter		1925	Blaise Cendrars
Land ho! The original diary of a forty-niner		1935	Elliott Wilkinson Cook, Jane James Cook
Land of homes		1929	Frank J. Taylor, J. R. McCarthy
The land of the golden poppy		1930	Nola. Robbins, Grace Shull Eichmann, Earl Venables
The lands of the sun		1927	Mary Hunter Austin
The last of the California rangers		1928
A letter from a gold miner, Placerville, California, October, 1850		1944	S. Shufelt
A letter from Anthony Trollope describing a visit to California in 1875		1946	Anthony Trollope, Mallette Dean
Letters to a pioneer senator: original extracts from the mail bag of a California statesman of the '50's		1925	Albert Dressler
Libros californianos		1931	Phil Townsend Hanna
The life and adventures in California of Don Agustín Janssens, 1834-1856		1953	Agustín Janssens, William H. Ellison, Francis Price
The life and adventures of James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California		1935	G. Ezra (George Ezra) Dane, George Frederic Parsons
Life in California before the conquest: Hispano-Californians, léperos, & Indians, Franciscan misioneros & misiones, American & English comerciantes, puertos, presidios, castillos, sailors & backwoodsmen, revolutions & strife		1925	Alfred Robinson, Thomas C. Russell
Life sketches of a jayhawker of '49		1916	L. Dow (Lorenzo Dow) Stephens
Los Angeles in 7 days, including Southern California		1932	Virginia Stivers Bartlett, Lanier Bartlett
Los Angeles in the sunny seventies: A flower from the golden land		1929	Marguerite Eyer Wilbur, Ludwig Louis Salvator, Phil Townsend Hanna
Love stories of old California		1940	Mrs Fremont Older
The lure of the past: the present and future		1911	approximately1844 George W. Bryan
Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er: memories recalled years later for her daughter Correnah Wilson Wright		1937	Luzena Stanley Wilson, Correnah Wilson Wright
The maid of the mountain: a romance of the California wilderness		1925	James Reynolds, Jackson Gregory
Maine men and women in southern California: a volume regarding the lives of Maine men and women of note and substantial achievement, as well as those of a younger generation whose careers are certain, yet still in the making		1913	Helen Brown Trask, Florence Collins Porter
Malaspina in California		1960	Donald C. Cutter
March of industry		1929	Robert Glass Cleland, Osgood Hardy, J. B. McCarthy
Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby: reminiscences of California and Guatemala from 1849 to 1864		1945	Elisha Oscar Crosby, Charles A. (Charles Albro) Barker
Memories, Some of Many		1920	Annie V. Finn
Men of California: western personalities and their affiliations, with club memberships and civic associations		1925	Wellington C. Wolfe
Men of California: western personalities and their affiliations, with club memberships and civic associations		1926	Wellington C. Wolfe
Messenger of destiny: the California adventures, 1846-1847		1960	Werner H. Marti
A model state: making a utopia of California		1934	Gilbert F. Stevenson
Montgomery and the Portsmouth		1958	Fred Blackburn Rogers
More happenings in California: a series of sketches of the great California out-of-doors		1928	W. P. Bartlett
The Mother Lode of California		1963
Mother lode: the story of California's gold rush		1934	Louis John Stellman
Motor tales and travels in and out of California		1936	Herbert Carolan
The mountains of California	New and enl. ed.	1911	John Muir
Mrs. Leland Stanford: an intimate account		1935	Bertha Berner
Music and dance in California and the West		1933	Bruno David Ussher, José Rodríguez, Richard drake Saunders
My California		1933	Kathleen Thompson Norris
My first summer in the Sierra		1911	John Muir
My playhouse was a Concord coach: an anthology of newspaper clippings and documents relating to those who made California history during the years 1822-1888		1942	Mae Hélène Bacon Boggs
My seventy years in California, 1857-1927		1927	J. A. (Jackson Alpheus) Graves
Narrative of a voyage to California ports in 1841-42, together with voyages to Sitka, the Sandwich Islands & Okhotsk, to which are added sketches of journeys across America, Asia & Europe: From the Narrative of a voyage round the world		1930	Thomas C. Russell, Sir George Simpson
Narrative of Nicholas "Cheyenne" Dawson: (Overland to California in '41 & '49, and Texas in '51)		1933	Charles Lewis Camp, Nicholas Dawson
The native son		1919	Inez Haynes Gillmore
A Navy surgeon in California, 1846-1847: the journal of Marius Duvall		1957	Marius Duvall
The negro trail blazers of California: a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft library at the University of California		1919	Delilah Leontium Beasley
Neu-Helvetien; lebenserinnerungen des generals Johann August Sutter		1934	John Augustus Sutter, Erwin Gustav Gudde
New California the golden		1933	Rockwell Dennis Hunt
A new legislature for modern California		1940	Dean Eugene McHenry
Newcomers and nomads in California		1937	William Thomas Cross, Dorothy Embry Cross
Northern California	[1st ed.]	1959
Occupational mobility in an American community		1937	Percy E. (Percy Erwin) Davidson, Karl. Shlaudeman, H. Dewey (Hobson Dewey) Anderson
Old California houses: portraits and stories		1952	Marion Randall Parsons