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• California -- History -- 1846-1850
• California -- History -- Fiction

• The Gringos: A Story of the Old California Days in 1849 (1913), by B. M. Bower, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Argonauts of North Liberty, by Bret Harte (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the Donner Party (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), ed. by Kristin Johnson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
• Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (HTML at LOC)
• With Stevenson to California, 1846 (California Relations #36; Oakland, CA: Biobooks, 1954), by James Lynch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of California, 1846-1861, by William T. Sherman (HTML at LOC)
• The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
• Doniphan's Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California (reprint of Hughes's book on the expedition, with additional material; Topeka, KS: W. E. Connelley, 1907), by John Taylor Hughes, ed. by William Elsey Connelley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vida y Aventuras del Más Célebre Bandido Sonorense, Joaquín Murrieta, y Sus Grandes Proezas en el Estado de California (sixth edition, in Spanish; Los Angeles: C. G. Vincent and Co., 1923), by Ireneo Paz
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Three Years in California, by Walter Colton
  • PDF and XML at loc.gov
  • page images at MOA
• McNeil's Travels in 1849, To, Through, and From the Gold Regions, in California, by Samuel McNeil (HTML at LOC)
• Sketch of a Three Years Travell in South America, California and Mexico, by Eugene Ring (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Doniphan's Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California (reprint of Hughes's book on the expedition, with additional material; Topeka, KS: W. E. Connelley, 1907), by John Taylor Hughes, ed. by William Elsey Connelley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Padre Ignacio, by Owen Wister (Gutenberg text)

• Kultaa ja Kuntoa (Smoke Bellew in Finnish; Helskini: Otava, 1921), by Jack London, trans. by J. Saastamoinen (Gutenberg text)
• Nigger Bellew (Smoke Bellew in Swedish; Stockholm: A. B. Bohlin and Co., 1919), by Jack London, trans. by Ernst Lundquist
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Caballero (New York: New American Library, 1948), by Johnston McCulley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Smoke Bellew (UK edition), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Smoke Bellew (American edition), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• The Bronze Collar: A Romance of Spanish California (published under "John Frederick" pssudonym; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925), by Max Brand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rezánov, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, contrib. by William Marion Reedy (Gutenberg text)
• The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California (1902), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California (1902), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)