California -- Gold discoveries -- Economic aspects

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• California -- Gold discoveries

• Gold from California, and its effect on prices. A lecture. Delivered at North Chelsea, Massachusetts. March 25th, 1856 with some reminiscences of the place. By Thomas G. Cary. (New York, Printed by G. W. Wood, 1856), by Thomas G. Cary (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Adventures of a Forty-Niner, by Daniel Knower (HTML at LOC)
• The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys, by H. J. Crumpton and Washington Bryan Crumpton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
• The Argonauts of Forty-Nine, by David Rohrer Leeper (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• Around the Horn in '49, by Hartford Union Mining and Trading Company (HTML at LOC)
• The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• Bound for Sacramento, by Carl Meyer (HTML at LOC)
• California: A Trip Across the Plains, In the Spring of 1850, by James Abbey (HTML at LOC)
• California As I Saw It, by William S. M'Collum (HTML at LOC)
• California As It Is and As It May Be, by Felix Paul Wierzbicki (HTML at LOC)
• California Gold (1933 magazine reprint), by James Stephens Brown (HTML at LOC)
• California Gold Rush Merchant, by Stephen Chapin Davis (HTML at LOC)
• California Illustrated, by J. M. Letts
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• California, In-Doors and Out, by Eliza W. Farnham (HTML at LOC)
• California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants, by H. V. Huntley (HTML at LOC)
• California Letters of Lucius Fairchild, by Lucius Fairchild, ed. by Joseph Schafer (HTML at LOC)
• Death Valley in '49, by William Lewis Manly (HTML at LOC)
• The Diary of a Forty-Niner, by Chauncey L. Canfield (HTML at LOC)
• Diary of a Physician in California, by James Lawrence Tyson (HTML at LOC)
• The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
• Early Recollections of the Mines, and A Description of the Great Tulare Valley, by James H. Carson (HTML at LOC)
• Early Voyages to California, by Alfred Peabody and J. H. Eagleston (HTML at LOC)
• Echoes of the Past About California, by John Bidwell (HTML at LOC)
• Edmund Booth (1810-1905) Forty-Niner: The Life Story of a Deaf Pioneer, by Edmund Booth (HTML at LOC)
• Eldorado: or, Adventures in the Path of Empire (two volumes), by Bayard Taylor
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• An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
• A Forty-Niner Speaks, by Hiram Dwight Pierce (HTML at LOC)
• The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
• A Frenchman in the Gold Rush, by Ernest de Massey, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
• From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer, by Henry Hiram Ellis (HTML at LOC)
• A Gil Blas in California (Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1933), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• A Gil Blas in California (New York: Hastings House, c1948), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur, illust. by R. A. Cates (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
• Gold and Sunshine: Reminiscences of Early California, by James J. Ayers (HTML at LOC)
• The Gold Seekers of '49, by Kimball Webster (HTML at LOC)
• Golden Dreams and Waking Realities, by William Shaw (HTML at LOC)
• Incidents on Land and Water: or, Four Years on the Pacific Coast, by Mrs. D. B. Bates
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• The Inside Story of the Gold Rush, by Jacques Antoine Moerenhout (HTML at LOC)
• The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction, by Hinton Rowan Helper
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• A Letter from A Gold Miner, Placerville, California, October 1850, by S. Shufelt, contrib. by Robert Glass Cleland (HTML at LOC)
• Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
• Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49, by Lorenzo Dow Stephens (HTML at LOC)
• McNeil's Travels in 1849, To, Through, and From the Gold Regions, in California, by Samuel McNeil (HTML at LOC)
• Memories of Early Wisconsin and the Gold Mines, by John Barber Parkinson (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Mountains and Molehills, by Frank Marryat (HTML at LOC)
• Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (HTML at LOC)
• Old Californian Days, by James W. Steele (HTML at LOC)
• One Man's Gold: The Letters and Journal of a Forty-Niner, by Enos Christman (HTML at LOC)
• Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9 (two volumes), by William Redmond Ryan (HTML at LOC)
• Personal Recollections, by Harvey Wood (HTML at LOC)
• A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
• A Pioneer at Sutter's Fort, 1846-1850, by Heinrich Lienhard, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
• Prentice Mulford's Story: Life by Land and Sea, by Prentice Mulford (HTML at LOC)
• Ramblings in California, by Pringle Shaw (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of California, 1846-1861, by William T. Sherman (HTML at LOC)
• A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California, With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, Including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles (London: Richard Bentley, 1852), by Henry J. Coke (page images in Germany)
• Scenes of Life in California, by Friedrich Gerstäcker, trans. by George Cosgrave (HTML at LOC)
• Scharmann's Overland Journey to California, by Herman B. Scharmann, trans. by Margaret Hoff Zimmerman and Erich W. Zimmerman (HTML at LOC)
• The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52, by Dame Shirley, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (HTML at LOC)
• Sights in the Gold Region, and Scenes by the Way, by Theodore T. Johnson (HTML at LOC)
• Six Months in the Gold Mines, by E. Gould Buffum (HTML at LOC)
• Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings, by Daniel Bates Woods (HTML at LOC)
• Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico and California, by L. M. Schaeffer (HTML at LOC)
• Three Years in California, by John David Borthwick
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• A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848, by John Alfred Swan, ed. by John A. Hussey (HTML at LOC)
• A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush, by Franklin Agustus Buck (HTML at LOC)
• Hunting for gold; reminisences [!] of personal experience and research in the early days of the Pacific coast from Alaska to Panama. By Major William Downie. (San Francisco, Cal., Press of the California publishing co., 1893), by William Downie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Charles Peters, in 1915 the oldest pioneer living in California, who mined in ... the days of '49 ... Also historical happenings, interesting incidents and illustrations of the old mining towns in the good luck era, the placer mining days of the '50s. (Sacramento, Cal., The La Grave co., [1915?]), by Charles Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sam Ward in the gold rush, ed. by Carvel Collins. (Stanford, Stanford Univ. Press, [1949]), by Samuel Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Bayley's heir : a tale of the gold fields of California / by G.A. Henty ; illustrated by H. M. Paget. (New York : F. M. Lupton, [189-?]), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The forty-niners; a chronicle of the California trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White. (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The forty-niners; a chronicle of the California trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White. (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1918), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years 1849-50. (New York, Arno Press, 1973 [c1878]), by Samuel Curtis Upham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of a forty-niner. (Albany, Weed-Parsons printing co., 1894), by Daniel Knower (page images at HathiTrust)
• The forty-niners; (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Bayley's heir : a tale of the gold fields of California / by G.A. Henty ; illustrated by H.M. Paget. (New York : The Federal Book Company, [190-?]), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Bayley's heir : a tale of the gold fields of California / by G.A. Henty. (New York : Mershon, [190-?]), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Bayley's heir : a tale of the gold fields of California / by G.A. Henty ; illustrated by H.M. Paget. (New York : Hurst & Company, [190-?]), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden cañon / by G.A. Henty. (New York : Hurst, c1899), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden cañon / by G.A. Henty. (New York : Mershon Co., c1899), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden cañon / by G.A. Henty. (New York : The Mershon Company, c1899), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burning Daylight / by Jack London. (New York, : Grosset & Dunlap, 1910), by Jack London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The forty-niners; a chronicle of the California trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White. (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of California, from the period of the conquest by Spain, to her occupation by the United States of America. (New York, Hurst & co., [c1881]), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• California and Oregon : or, Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way / by Theodore T. Johnson. (Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1857), by Theodore T. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Australian and California gold discoveries, and their probable consequences; or, An inquiry into the laws which determine the value and distribution of the precious metals: with historical notices of the effects of the American mines on European prices in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. In a series of letters. By Patrick James Stirling. (Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd; [etc., etc.], 1853), by Patrick James Stirling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years in California [1846-1849] / by Rev. Walter Colton, U.S.N. ... (Cincinnati, Ohio : H. W. Derby & co., 1850), by Walter Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of California : From the period of the conquest by Spain, to her occupation by the United States of America ... Also, advice to emigrants on the best routes, and the preparations necessary to get there. To which is added a brief account of the formation of the government and constitution of the said state. (Auburn : Derby & Miller ; Buffalo : Derby, Orton & Mulligan, 1853), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Shirley letters from the California mines, 1851-1852, with an introd. and notes by Carl I. Wheat. (New York, A. A. Knopf, 1949), by Louise Amelia Knapp Clappe (page images at HathiTrust)
• What's in a name Tales, historical in tradition, about # California Gold Bolt place natures. ([Sacramento?, 1919]), by C. M. Goethe (page images at HathiTrust)
• "All's not gold that glitters" : or, The young Californian / by Cousin Alice. (New-York : D. Appleton & Co., 1863, c1853), by Alice B. Haven (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden cañon / by G.A. Henty. (New York : F.M. Lupton, c1899), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado : or, Adventures in the path of empire, comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel / by Bayard Taylor. (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1850), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years in California [1846-1849] (New York : A. S. Barnes, 1850), by Walter Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of the age; or, The discovery of gold in California. By Edward E. Dunbar. (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1867), by Edward E. Dunbar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Bayley's heir : a tale of the gold fields of California / by G. A. Henty. (London : Blackie & Son, [191-?]), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Captain Bayley's heir : a tale of the gold fields of California / by G. A. Henty ; illustrated by H.M. Paget. (London : Blackie & Son, [190-?]), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California and Oregon, or, Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way / by Theodore T. Johnson. With an appendix, containing Full instructions to emigrants by the overland route to Oregon / by Hon. Samuel R. Thurston. Also, particulars of the march of the regiment of U.S. riflemen in 1849 / [from the report of Major Osborne Cross]. Together with the Oregon Land-bill. (Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1851), by Theodore T. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of California : from the period of the conquest of Spain, to her occupation by the United States of America ... / by John Frost. (Auburn : Derby and Miller, 1853, c1850), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• A journal of the overland route to California & the gold mines / by Lorenzo D. Aldrich ; with notes by Glen Dawson (Los Angeles : Dawson's Book Shop, 1950), by Lorenzo D. Aldrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Im goldlande Kalifornien : fahrten und schicksale goldsuchender auswanderer / von S. Wörishöffer, mit 16 vollbildern und aquarell-titelbild. (Bielefeld und Leipzig : Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, 1891), by S. Wörishöffer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Three years in California / by Walter Colton. (New York : S. A. Rollo, 1859, [c1850]), by Walter Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the plains and among the diggings : being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California ; with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and the future of the great West / by A. Delano. (Auburn ; Buffalo : Milner, Orton & Mulligan, 1854, c1853), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tour of duty in California; including a description of the gold region: and an account of the voyage around cape Horn; with notices of lower California, the Gulf and Pacific coasts, and the principal events attending the conquest of the Californias. By Joseph Warren Revere ... Ed. by Joseph N. Balestier ... With a map and plates from original designs. (New York, C.S. Francis & Co.; Boston, J.H. Francis, 1849), by Joseph Warren Revere (page images at HathiTrust)
• California: the wonder of the age. A book for every one going to or having an interest in that golden region; being the report of Thomas Butler King, United States government agent in and for California ... (New York, W. Gowans, 1850), by T. Butler King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of a seventeen-year-old lad and the fortunes he might have won / by John G. Williams. (Boston : Printed for the author by the Collins Press, 1894), by John G. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life, travels and adventures of an American wanderer: a truthful narrative of events in the life of Alonzo P. De Milt. Containing his early adventures among the Indians of Florida; his life in the gold mines of California and Australia; his explorations of the Andes and the Amazon and its tributaries, etc., etc., interspersed with sketches and narratives illustrating life, manners, customs and scenery in Mexico, Central America, Peru, Brazil, Australia, the South Sea Islands, and the United States... By Franklyn Y. Fitch. (New York : John W. Lovell, [c1883]), by Franklyn Y. Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold and sunshine, reminiscences of early California [by] Colonel James J. Ayers; illustrations from the collection of Charles B. Turrill. (Boston, R. G. Badger, [c1922]), by James J. Ayers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prentice Mulford's story : life by land and sea / by Prentice Mulford. (New York : F.J. Needham, 1889), by Prentice Mulford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Up and down : or, Fifty years' colonial experiences in Australia, California, New Zealand, India, China, and the south Pacific; being the life history of Capt. W. J. Barry / written by himself, 1878 .. (London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1879), by W. Jackson Barry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reminiscences of California and the Civil War / by Daniel Cooledge Fletcher. (Ayer, Mass. : Press of H.S. Turner, 1894), by Daniel Cooledge Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perils, pastimes and pleasures of an emigrant in Australia, Vancouver's Island and California. (London, T. C. Newby, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California : to which is added a description of the physical geography of California, with recent notices of the gold region from the latest and most authentic sources / by J. C. Frémont. (New York : Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by John Charles Frémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oregon and California : the exploring expedition to the Rocky mountains, Oregon and California / by Brevet Col. J. C. Fremont, to which is added a description of the physical geography of California ; with recent notices of the gold region from the latest and most authentic sources. (Buffalo : G.H. Derby & co., 1849), by John Charles Frémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oregon and California. The exploring expedition to the Rocky mountains, Oregon and California, by Brevet Col. J. C. Fremont, to which is added a description of the physical geography of California. With recent notices of the gold region from the latest and most authentic sources. (Buffalo, G. H. Derby & co., 1850), by John Charles Frémont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858. ([New York] : Printed privately, 1920), by William Christian Lobenstine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer days in California: by John Carr. Historical and personal sketches. (Eureka, Cal., Times publishing company, 1891), by John Carr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Three years in California / by Rev. Walter Colton. (New York : A.S. Barnes & Co., 1852), by Walter Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of California: From the period of the conquest by Spain to her occupation by the United States of America. Containing an account of the discovery of the immense gold mines and placers, the enormous population of gold-seekers, the quantity of gold already obtained, a description of her mineral and agricultural resources, with thrilling accounts of adventures among the mines. Also, advice to emigrants on the best routes, and the preparations necessary to get there. To which is added a brief account of the formation of the government and constitution of the said state / by John Frost, LL.D. (Auburn, N.Y. : Derby and Miller, 1850), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scènes de la vie californienne, par F. Gerstacker: tr. de l'allemand par Gustave Revilliod. (Genève, Impr. de J.G. Fick, 1859), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust)
• California: its gold and its inhabitants. By the author of "Seven years on the Slave Coast of Africa" ... (London, T.C. Newby, 1856), by H. V. Huntley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado, or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel. By Bayard Taylor. (New York, G. P. Putnam & co.;[etc.,etc.], 1856), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• An excursion to California over the prairie, Rocky Mountains, and great Sierra Nevada : with a stroll through the diggings and ranches of that country / by William Kelly. (London : Chapman and Hall, 1851), by William Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• California and Oregon; or, Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way. By Theodore T. Johnson. With an appendix , containing full instructions to emigrants by the overland route to Oregon. By Hon. Samuel R. Thurston... (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co., 1865), by Theodore T. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Californie en de goudkoorts. Togten en het westen van Noord-Amerika. Het leven en de zeden der goudgravers, mormonen, en indianen. (Amsterdam, P.M. van der Made, 1864), by W. F. A. Zimmermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the plains and among the diggings; being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and future of the great West. By A. Delano. [4th thousand] (New York, C.M. Saxton, 1859), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado; or, Adventures in the path of empire, comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region; and experiences of Mexican travel, by Bayard Taylor. (New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 [c1882]), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• My adventures in the Sierras / by Obed G. Wilson. (Franklin, O., The Editor Publishing Co., 1902), by Obed Gray Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixteen months at the gold diggings. By Daniel B. Woods. (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1852), by Daniel Bates Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage pittoresque en Californie et au Chili; fles Malouines; - terres Magellaniques; - détroit de Magellan; - Terre-du-Feu; - Terre-des-Etats; Cap-Horn; - etc.; par M. Ch. de Lambertie ... (Paris, Ledoyen; Roumazières près Chabanais, L'auteur, 1853), by Charles de Lambertie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A pictorial view of California; including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua routes, with information and advice interesting to all, particularly those who intend to visit the golden region. By a returned Californian. (New York, H. Bill, 1853), by J. M. Letts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of a '49er. A quaint and thrilling narrative of a trip across the plains, and life in the California gold fields during the stirring days following the discovery of gold in the far West, by Edward Washington McIlhany, "one of the last of the old boys." (Kansas City, Mo., Hailman printing company, 1908), by Edward Washington McIlhany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold seekers of 4́9 ... by Edwin L. Sabin ... with illustrations by Charles H. Stephens, and maps. (Philadelphia & London, J.B. Lippincott company, 1915), by Edwin L. Sabin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Port o'gold : a history-romance of the San Francisco Argonauts / Louis J. Stellman. (Boston : Richard G. Badger, c1922), by Louis J. Stellman (page images at HathiTrust)
• "A pretty fair view of the eliphent"; or, Tell letters by Charles G. Hinman written during his trip overland from Groveland, Illinois, to California in 1849 and his adventures in the gold fields in 1849 and 1850. Edited by Colton Storm. (Chicago, Printed for E.D. Graff by G. Martin, 1960), by Charles G. Hinman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Californian days [by] James Steele. (Chicago, Conkey co., [1894]), by James W. Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado, or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel/ By Bayard Taylor. (New York, G.P. Putnam, 1860, c1850), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of travel : 1852-1865 / by the author [Austin B. Clark] (Middletown, Conn. : J.S. Stewart, [1897?]), by Austin Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experiences of a forty-niner / by Wm. G. Johnston ; a member of the wagon train first to enter California in the memorable year 1849. (Pittsburgh : [s.n.], 1892), by William Graham Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The travels and adventures of Henry Kingman in search of Colorado and California gold, 1859-1865; with a few later incidents, including some politics and the celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday ... (Delavan, Kan., 1917), by Henry Kingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scharmann's overland journey to California, from the pages of a pioneer's diary; translated from the German of H.B. Scharmann, by Margaret Hoff Zimmermann, A.B. and Erich W. Zimmermann, Ph. D. ([n.p., 1918]), by Hermann B. Scharmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eldorado : or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel / By Bayard Taylor. With illustrations by the author. (New York : George P. Putnam; London : Richard Bentley, 1850), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oregon and California in 1848 : With an appendix, including recent and authentic information on the subject of the gold mines of California, and other valuable matter of interest to the emigrant, etc. ... / By J. Quinn Thornton ... with illustrations and a map. (New York : Harper & Brothers, 1849), by J. Quinn Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the golden goal : and other sketches / by J.C. Tucker. (San Francisco, Calif. : W. Doxey, 1895), by J. C. Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. By James L. Tyson, M. D (New York, D. Appleton & company ; Philadelphia, G.S. Appleton, 1850), by James Lawrence Tyson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of Oregon and California, embracing an account of the gold regions ; to which is added, an Appendix, containing descriptions of various kinds of gold, and methods of texting its genuineness / [Samuel A. Mitchell] ; with a large and accurate map of Oregon and California, compiled from the latest authorities. (Philadelphia : Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1849), by S. Augustus Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Steele's Western guide book, and emigrant's directory; containing different routes through the states of New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Min[n]esota, etc., etc. With descriptions of the climate, soil, productions, &c. With an appendix containing the routes to Oregon and California. With maps. (Buffalo, O.G. Steele, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four months in the mines of California: or, Life in the mountains. (Providence, B.T. Albro, printer, 1854), by Silas Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• California, its past history, its present position, its future prospects : containing a history of the country from its colonization by the Spaniards to the present time, a sketch of its geographical and physical features, and a minute and authentic account of the discovery of the gold region, and the subsequent important proceedings : including a history of the rise, progress, and present condition of the Mormon settlements : with an appendix containing the official reports made to the government of the United States. (London : Printed for the proprietors, 1850), by G. A. Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• California gold; an authentic history of the first find, with the names of those interested in the discovery. Pub. by the author, James S. Brown ... (Oakland, Calif., Pacific Press publishing company, 1894), by James Stephens Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and adventures of James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California. By George Frederic Parsons ... (Sacramento, J. W. Marshall and W. Burke, 1870), by George Frederic Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide pratique des émigrants en Californie et des voyageurs dans l'Amérique espagnole / par Jules Rossignon. (Paris : Adolphe René, 1849), by Jules Rossignon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roughing it after gold, by Rux. (London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891), by Rux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gold! Ein californisches Lebensbild. Von Friedrich Gerstäcker. Original-Ausgabe, neu durchgesehen und herausgegeben von Dietrich Theden. (Berlin, Neufeld & Henius, [1900?]), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mountains and molehills, or, Recollections of a burnt journal / by Frank Marryat ; with illustrations by the author. (London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), by Frank Marryat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gold-seeker / from the German by Levi C. Sheip. (Philadelphia : Lutheran Publication Society, 1883), by Levi C. Sheip (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vie dans le Nouveau-Monde. (Paris, Poulet-Malassis, 1862), by Xavier Eyma (page images at HathiTrust)
• Californien unmittlebar vor und nach der Entdeckung des Goldes. Bilder aus dem Leben des Heinrich Lienhard von Bilten, Kanton Glarus in Nauvoo, Nordamerika. Ein Beitrag zur Jubiläumsfeier der Goldentdeckung und zur Kulturgeschichte Californiens. (Zürich, Fäsi & Beer, 1898), by Heinrich Lienhard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gold, by Stewart Edward White; illustrated by Thomas Fogarty. (Garden City, N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap, [c1913]), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Days of '49, by Gordon Young. (New York, George H. Doran company, [c1925]), by Gordon Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years in California [1846-1849 ˜By Rev. Walter Colton, U. S. N. .. (New York, A. S. Barnes; Cincinnati, H. W. Derby & co., 1852, c1850), by Walter Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Quaker forty-miner : the adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American frontier / edited by Anna Paschall Hannum ; with a foreword by John Bach McMaster. (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Charles Edward Pancoast (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneers of Unadilla village, 1784-1840 / by Francis Whiting Halsey. Reminiscences of village life and of Panama and California from 1840-1850 / by Gaius Leonard Halsey. (Unadilla, N.Y. : Sold by the Vestry of St. Matthew's Church, 1902), by Francis W. Halsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the plains and among the diggings; being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and future of the great West. By A. Delano. (New York, Miller, Orton & co., 1857), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way. By Theodore T. Johnson ... (New York, Baker and Scribner, 1849), by Theodore T. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Charles Peters, in 1915 the oldest pioneer living in California, who mined in ... the days of '49 ... Also historical happenings, interesting incidents and illustrations of the old mining towns in the good luck era, the placer mining days of the '50s. (Sacramento, Cal., The LaGrave co., [1915?]), by Charles Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
• A picture of pioneer times in California, illustrated with anecdotes and stories taken from real life. By William Grey [pseud.] (San Francisco, Printed by W.M. Hinton & co., 1881), by William Francis White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gold seekers of '49; a personal narrative of the overland trail and adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854. By Kimball Webster, a New England forty-niner; with an introduction and biographical sketch by George Waldo Browne; illustrated by Frank Holland and others. (Manchester, N.H., Standard book company, 1917), by Kimball Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The march of empire through three decades : embracing sketches of California history, early times and scenes, life in the mines, travels by land and sea before the era of railroads, the East during the years of the Civil War, life in the border states, crossing the plains with ox teams, crossing the plains on the transcontinental railway, progress and improvement of the golden state, resources, etc., etc. / by Mallie Stafford. (San Francisco, Calif. : Geo. Spaulding & Co., 1884), by Mallie Stafford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early voyages to California ... ([Salem, Mass., Printed at the Salem press, 1874]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixteen months at the gold diggings. By Daniel B. Woods. (New York, Harper & brothers, 1851), by Daniel Bates Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months in the gold mines: from a journal of three years' residence in Upper and Lower California. 1847-8-9. By E. Gould Buffum ... (Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1850), by E. Gould Buffum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cockneys in California ... (New York, M. Douglas ; [etc., etc., ca. 1851]), by J. Stirling Coyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life sketches of a jayhawker of '49, by L. Dow Stephens; actually told by himself in his own way. ([San Jose, Cal., Printed by Nolta brothers], 1916), by L. Dow Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. By James L. Tyson, M.D. (New York, D. Appleton & company; Philadelphia, G.S. Appleton, 1850), by James L. Tyson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first baby in camp. A full account of the scenes and adventures during the pioneer days of '49. George Francis Train.-Staging in early days.-A mad, wild ride.-The pony express.-Some of the old time drivers. By Wm. P. Bennett ... (Picture 22x28 accompanies this book) (Salt Lake City, Utah, The Rancher publishing co., 1893), by William P. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of a forty-niner, ed. by Chauncey L. Canfield. (Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1920), by Chauncey L. Canfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the state of California. From the period of the conquest by Spain to her occupation by the United States of America. Containing an account of the discovery of the immense gold mines and placers ... by John Frost, LL.D. (Auburn, N.Y., Derby and Miller, 1852), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849-'50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California." By Samuel C. Upham. With forty-five illustrations ... (Philadelphia, The author, 1878), by Samuel C. Upham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The experiences of a Forty-niner during thirty-four years' residence in California and Australia, by Charles D. Ferguson, ed. by Frederick T. Wallace. (Cleveland, O., The Williams publishing company, 1888), by Charles D. Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of gold. Reality versus fiction. By Hinton H. Helper. (Baltimore, Pub. for the author, by H. Taylor, 1855), by Hinton Rowan Helper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Californian days [by] James Steele ... (Chicago, Belford-Clarke co., 1889), by James Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three weeks in the gold mines, or, Adventures with the gold diggers of California in August, 1848 : together with advice to emigrants, with full instructions upon the best method of getting there, living, expenses, etc., etc., and a complete description of the country / by Henry I. Simpson. (New York : Joyce and Co., 1848), by Henry I. Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kalifornien och guldfebern : Guldgräfvarnes, mormonernas och indianernas seder och bruk, antecknade under en resa i vestra Nordamerika / af dr. W. F. A. Zimmermann ; ofversatt och bearbetadt af J. E. Thingren. Med 8 litografierade planscher i tontryck och 50 träsnitt. (Stockholm : C. H. Fahlstedts, 1862), by Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Vollmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gold hunters, by J. D. Borthwick; a first-hand picture of life in California mining camps in the early fifties, ed. by Horace Kephart. (New York, Outing publishing company, 1917), by John David Borthwick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California in 1851 [-1852]; (San Francisco, The Grabhorn press, 1933), by Dame Shirley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado : or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel / by Bayard Taylor. (New York : G. P. Putnam & co.;[etc.,etc.], 1855), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother lode; the story of California's gold rush, (San Francisco, Calif., Harr Wagner publishing company, [c1934]), by Louis J. Stellman (page images at HathiTrust)
• California gold rush merchant; the journal of Stephen Chapin Davis. Edited by Benjamin B. Richards. (San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library, 1956), by Stephen Chapin Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seeing the elephant; letters of R. R. Taylor, forty niner, edited by John Walton Caughey. ([Los Angeles] W. Ritchie Press, 1951), by Rinaldo Rinaldini Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gold hunters, by J. D. Borthwick; a first hand picture of life in California mining camps in the early fifties, ed. by Horace Kephart. (Oyster Bay, X. Y., N. Doubleday, [c1917]), by John David Borthwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Californian days. (Chicago, Morrill, Higgins, 1892 [c1889]), by James Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado : or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel / By Bayard Taylor. (New York : G. P. Putnam, 1850), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of a forty-niner, ed. by Chauncey L. Canfield. (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1920), by Chauncey L. Canfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gold hunters of California, by Thomas Edwin Farish; illustrated by F. I. Wetherbee. (Chicago : M. A. Donohue & co., 1904), by Thomas Edwin Farish (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of gold. Reality versus fiction. By Hinton R. Helper. (Baltimore, Pub. for the author, by H. Taylor, 1855), by Hinton Rowan Helper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gold seekers of '49; a personal narrative of the Overland Trail and adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854. By Kimball Webster, a New England forty-niner; with an introduction and biographical sketch by George Waldo Browne; illustrated by Frank Holland and others. (Manchester, N.H., Standard Book Co., 1917), by Kimball Webster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Un Gil-Blas en Californie, par Alexandre Dumas. (Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1861), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• How many miles from St. Jo? The log of Sterling B. F. Clark, a forty-niner, with comments (San Francisco, Priv. print., 1929), by Sterling B. F. 1825-1852 Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the mother lode / by Vivia Hemphill. (Sacramento, Purnell's, 1922), by Vivia Hemphill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last frontier. Part 1: The forty-niners, by Stewart Edward White. Part 2: The passing of the frontier, by Emerson Hough. (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.., 1926]), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The forty-niners; a chronicle of the California trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White. (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1918), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of a forty-niner, ed. by Chauncey L. Canfield. (New York, San Francisco, M. Shepard company, 1906), by Chauncey L. Canfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land ho! The original diary of forty-niner, (Baltimore, The Remington-Putnam book company, [c1935]), by Elliott Wilkinson Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Bayley's heir; a tale of the gold fields of California. (London, Blackie, [1905?]), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prentice Mulford's story : or, Life by land and sea, a personal narrative / with a preface and conclusion by Arthur Edward Waite (London : William Rider & Son, 1913), by Prentice Mulford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings, by David Rohrer Leeper. Illustrated by O. Marion Elbel ... (South Bend. Ind., J.B. Stoll & company, printers, 1894), by David Rohrer Leeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of El Dorado / by Charles Elmer Upton (Placerville, Cal. : C. E. Upton, 1906), by Charles Elmer Upton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years wanderings around the world / by an adventurer ; illustrated with steel engravings (Hartford, Conn. : Hurlbut, Scranton & Co., 1864), by C. M Welles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The forty niners: a chronicle of the California trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White. (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscence of George K. Goodwin, 1849-1881 ([S.l. : s.n., 1881]), by George K Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Across the plains in 1850 : [personal recollections of A.A. Enos] ([Stanton, Neb.? : A.F. Enos, 1905]), by A. A Enos (page images at HathiTrust)
• In camp and cabin : mining life and adventure, in California during 1850 and later / by John Steele (Lodi, Wis. : J. Steele, c1901), by John Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacific Coast annual mining review and stock ledger : containing detailed official reports of the principal gold and silver mines of Nevada, California, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Idaho : a history and description of mining and stock dealing on this coast with biographical sketches of 100 of the principal men engaged therein; and a series of finance articles by Henry S. Fitch (San Francisco : Francis & Valentine, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the plains and among the diggings : being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California : with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and future of the great West / by A. Delano (New York : C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1861), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles L. Weed : historic photographs of Middle Fork American River mining activities / by John H. Turner (Sacramento, Calif. : U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1983), by John H. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado : or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama, life in San Francisco and Monterey, pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel / by Bayard Taylor (New York : G.P. Putnam, 1859), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frost's pictorial history of California. History of the state of California. From the period of the conquest of Spain, to her occupation by the United States of America ... / by John Frost (Auburn : Derby and Miller, 1853, c1850), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Billy Bump / by the author of "Peter Parley's tales." (New York : Sheldon & Co., 1863), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• All's not gold that glitters, or, The young Californians / by Cousin Alice (New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1891), by Alice B. Haven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer boys of the gold fields : or, The nugget hunters of '49 / by Captain Ralph Bonehill. (New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1906), by Ralph Bonehill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado : or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel / By Bayard Taylor (New York : G. P. Putnam, 1857), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the California gold era : being that part of the author's series on the history of California covering the gold discovery period, 1848-1859 / Hubert Howe Bancroft (New York : Bancroft, [188-?]), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edward Fitzgerald Beale. (New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1912), by Stephen Bonsal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Marshall's gold discovery: a lecture (the fourth of the sixth annual course of Lick lectures) by John S. Hittell, delivered before the Society of California pioneers ... San Francisco, on the 24th of January, 1893, the 45th anniversary of the discovery. (San Francisco, B.F. Sterett, printer, 1893), by John S. Hittell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to California (With a map) Containing an account of the climate, soil, and natural productions of upper California, with authentic particulars respecting the gold region, derived from the official documents of the government of the United States; also a complete description of the various routes, and all other information useful to intending emigrants. (London : Wilson, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• McNeils travels in 1849 to, through, and from the gold regions in California. Columbus [Ohio] : Scott & Bascom, printers / 1850 ([New Haven? : 1958]), by Samuel McNeil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The first baby in camp : a full account of the scenes and adventures during the pioneer days of '49 / by Wm. P. Bennett (Seattle, Wash. : The Shorey Book Store, 1967), by William P Bennett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California letters of the gold rush period : the correspondence of John Ingalls, 1849-1851 / edited by R.W.G. Vail (Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society, 1938), by John Ingalls (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters by forty-niners : written from Great Salt Lake City in 1849 / edited by Dale L. Morgan (Los Angeles : Dawson's Book Shop, [1949?]), by Dale L. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost and living cities of the California gold rush : a motoring and historical guide to the principal early mining camps, first issued at Coloma, California, Jan. 24, 1948, on the centenary of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill / By Philip Johnston. Introd. by Phil Townsend Hanna ([Los Angeles] : Touring Bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California, [1948]), by Philip Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early California gold rush days / Annie Keeler Williams ([Sunland, Calif. : A.K. Williams, (1949 printing), c1948]), by Annie Keeler Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Feather River in '49 and the fifties / by George C. Mansfield ([Burlingame, Calif. : Reprinted by M. Mansfield, 1948]), by George C Mansfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lighter side of the Lode / by Dave S. Matthews ([California? : s.n.], c1950), by Dave S Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of Thomas Jefferson Matteson, Calaveras pioneer ([San Andreas, Calif.] : Calaveras County Historical Society, [1954]), by Thomas Jefferson Matteson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hills of gold ([Sacramento, Calif. : Published for the author by Cal-Central Press, c1963]), by Herman Daniel Jerrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold rush steamers of the Pacific, by Ernest A. Wiltsee (San Francisco, The Grabhorn Press, 1938), by Ernest A. Wiltsee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Way sketches; containing incidents of travel across the plains from St. Joseph to California in 1850, with Letters describing life and conditions in the gold region, (New York, E. Eberstadt, 1926), by Lorenzo Sawyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die goldführenden Lagerstätten Californiens und Australiens in ihren möglichen Folgen für Gewinnung und Anhäufung der edlen Metalle, Münzwesen, Staatswirthschaft, Finanzwesen, Metallwerth, Geldumlauf, Cours und Welthandel. Aus dem Französischen, mit Anmerkungen und Zustätzen, von Dr. Carl Hartmann. (Weimar, Voight, 1853), by Ludwik Tęgoborski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years in California [1846-1849] (New York, A. S. Barnes, 1850), by Walter Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Californie et les routes interocéaniques / par Alexandre Holinski. (Bruxelles : A. Labroue et Compagnie, imprimeurs, 1853), by Alexandre Holinski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage en Californie, par Ēdouard Auger (1852-1853). (Paris, L. Hachette et c, 1854), by Édouard Auger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado; or, Adventures in the path of empire; comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel, by Bayard Taylor. (New York, G. P. Putnam and son, 1868), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• California guide book: comprising Colonel Fremont's geographical account of upper California; Major Emory's overland journey from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in California, including parts of the Arkansas Del Norte and Gila rivers; and Captain Fremont's Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky mountains, and to Oregon and north California. Accompanied with a map of various routes, and a map of the gold regions. (New York, D. Appleton & co.; Philadelphia, G. S. Appleton, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Incidents on land and water, (Boston, J. French and company, 1858), by Mrs. D. B. Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• California, in-doors and out; : or, How we farm, mine, and live generally in the Golden State. (New York, : Dix, Edwards, 1856), by Eliza W. Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An excursion to California over the prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada. : With a stroll through the diggings adn ranches of that country. / By William Kelly. (London, : Chapman and Hall, 1851), by William Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages en Californie et dans l'Orégon / par M. de Saint-Amant. (Paris : L. Maison, 1854), by Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixteen months at the gold diggings / by Daniel B. Woods. (New York : Harper, 1851), by Daniel B. Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage en Californie, 1850-1851 : Navigation sur les deux océans, passage de l'Isthme de Panama, arrivée à San-Francisco : Suivi du tarif des douanes en Californie. (Paris : Garnier frères, 1851), by M. de Saint-Amant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of travels in South America, Mexico and California. By L. M. Schaeffer. (New York : J. Egbert, printer, 1860), by L. M. Schaeffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Europe ed America; scene della vita dal 1848 al 1850 del Dr. Antonio Caccia. (Monaco, G. Franz, 1850), by Antonio Caccia (page images at HathiTrust)
• All's not gold that glitters, or, The young Californian / by Cousin Alice [pseud.], author of "No such word as fail," "Contentment better than wealth," etc. etc. (New York : D. Appleton & company, 200 Broadway, [1853]), by Alice B. Haven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Incidents on land and water, or Four years on the Pacific coast. Being a narrative of the burning of the ships Nonantum, Humayoon and Fanchon, together with many startling adventures on sea and land. By Mrs. D. B. Bates. (Boston, J. French, 1857), by Mrs. D. B. Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Californien und das goldfieber. Reisen in dem wilden Western Nord-Amerika's leben und sitten der goldgräber, Mormonen und Indianer. Den gebildsten des deutschen volkes gewidmet von dr. W. F. A. Zimmermann [pseud.]... (Berlin, T. Thiele, 1863), by Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Vollmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years in California / by Walter Colton. (New York : Barnes ; Cincinnati : Derby, 1854), by Walter Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold rush by sea, (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania press, 1941), by Garrett W. Low (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cockneys in California ... (New York, W. Taylor & co., [185-?]), by J. Stirling Coyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold stories of '49 / by A Californian [i.e. Nüima Smith]. (Boston : Copeland and Day, 1896), by Nüima Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Audubon's western journal: 1849-1850; being the ms. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold fields of California, by John W. Audubon, with biographical memoir by his daughter, Maria R. Audubon; introduction, notes, and index by Frank Heywood Hodder, with folded map, portraits, and original drawings. (Cleveland, The A. H. Clark company, 1906), by John Woodhouse Audubon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a pioneer in the path of empire, 1822-1903, by Stephen Bonsal, with 17 illustrations. (New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1912), by Stephen Bonsal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The boys of the Sierras : or, The young gold hunters : a story of California in '49 / edited by Walter Montgomery. (Boston : Estes and Lauriat, [c1883]), by Hendrik Conscience (page images at HathiTrust)
• Off to California : a tale of the gold country / adapted from the Flemish of Hendrik Conscience by James F. Cobb ; illustrated by A. Forestier. (London : Wells Gardner, Darton, [1887?]), by Hendrik Conscience (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gold rush days with Mark Twain, by William R. Gillis; with an introduction by Cyril Clemens; illustrated with woodcuts by H. Glintenkamp. (New York, A. & C. Boni, 1930), by William Robert Gillis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado : or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel / By Bayard Taylor. (New York : G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn : together with scenes in El Dorado, in the year 1849-50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California" / By Samuel C. Upham. With forty-five illustrations ... (Philadelphia : The author, 1878), by Samuel Curtis Upham (page images at HathiTrust)
• California and the gold mania / by Thomas De Quincey ; illustrated with sketches from "Punch". ([San Francisco] : Colt Press, 1945), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scharmann's landreise nach Californien. Bearbeitet fuer das "Sonntagsblatt der New-Yorker staats-zeitung" ... ([New York, Priv. print., 1908?]), by Hermann B. 1838- Scharmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Argonauts of 'forty-nine : some recollections of the plains and the diggings / by David Rohrer Leeper ; illustrated by O. Marion Elbel. (Evansville, Ind. : Unigraphic, 1977), by David Rohrer Leeper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Goldland Kalifornien. Seine Lage, seine Grösse, sein Klima, sein jetziger Zustand. Mit 11 in den Text gedruckten Abbildungen, 2 Karten und 1 Portrait. (Leipzig : Weber, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• California gold; (Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1947), by Rodman Wilson Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alonzo Delano's California correspondence; being letters hitherto uncollected from the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader and the New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852 ; edited with an introd. and notes by Irving McKee. Maps by Stewart Mitchell; decorations by Harry O. Diamond. (Sacramento, Calif., Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1952), by Alonzo Delano (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of gold. A tale of '49. Illustrative of early pioneer life in California, and founded upon fact. (Boston, A. Williams & company, 1881), by George G. Spurr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nach dem Sacramento. (Aarau : H. R. Sauerländer, 1855), by Carl Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer miner and the pack mule express / Ernest A. Wiltsee. (San Francisco : California historical society, 1931), by Ernest Abram Wiltsee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Audubon's western journal, 1849-1850; being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California. With biographical memoir by his daughter, Maria R. Audubon. Introd., notes, and index by Frank Heywood Hodder. (Glorieta, N.M., Rio Grande Press, [1969]), by John Woodhouse Audubon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Un Gil-Blas en Californie, par Alexandre Dumas... (Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1872), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death valley, by Bourke Lee ... (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1930), by Bourke Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter from a gold miner, Placerville, California, October 1850 with an introduction by Robert Glass Cleland. (San Marino, Calif. : Friends of the Huntington Library, 1944), by S. Shufelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first forty-niner and the story of the golden tea-caddy, by James A. B. Scherer ... (New York, Minton, Balch & Company, 1925), by James Augustin Brown Scherer (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 particulary reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave Death Valley its name. By William Lewis Manly, with foreword by John Steven McGroarty; illustrated by Alson Clark. (New York, Santa Barbara, W. Hebberd, [c1929]), by William Lewis Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argonauts of '49; history and adventures of the emigrant companies from Massachusetts 1849-1850, (Cambridge, Harvard university press; [etc., etc. ], 1923), by Octavius T. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death Valley in '49. (Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1894), by William Lewis Manly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Death valley in '49. 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. By William Lewis Manly. (San José, Cal. : The Pacific tree and vine co., 1894), by William Lewis Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death Valley in '49. (Los Angeles, Borden Pub. Co., [1949]), by William Lewis Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
• '49 : a novel of gold / by George W. Cronyn. (Philadelphia : Dorrance & Company, c1925), by George W. Cronyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The deck of the Crescent City; a picture of American life. By William Giles Dix. (New York, G.P. Putnam & Co., 1853), by William Giles Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of an old timer : a recital of the actual events, incidents, trials, hardships, vicissitudes, adventures, perils, and escapes of a pioneer, hunter, miner and scout of the Pacific Northwest : together with his later experiences in official and business capacities and a brief description of the resources, beauties, and advantages of the new Northwest, the several Indian wars, anecdotes, etc. / by George Hunter. (San Francisco : H.S. Crocker and Co., printers, 1887), by George Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Bayley's heir : a tale of the gold fields of California / by G.A. Henty ; illustrations by H.M. Paget. (London : Blackie & Son, 1889), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The call of gold; true tales on the gold road to Yosemite, ([Mariposa, Calif., Gazette press, c1936]), by Newell D. Chamberlain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A stroll through the diggings of California; (Oakland, Calif., Biobooks, 1950), by William Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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., by James L. Tyson; index and forward [sic] by Joseph A. Sullivan. (Oakland, Calif., Biobooks, 1955), by James Lawrence Tyson (page images at HathiTrust)
• German interest in California before 1850 ... (1921), by George P. Hammond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California letters of William Gill : written in 1850 to his wife, Harriet Tarleton in Kentucky / edited by Eva Turner Clark (New York : Downs printing company, 1922), by William Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• California ghost towns live again. Foreword by Robert E. Burns. (Stockton, Calif., College of the Pacific, 1948), by Rockwell Dennis Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• California sketches, (Los Angeles, N. A. Kovach, 1946), by Leonard Kip (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52, by Dame Shirley (Gutenberg ebook)
• What I Saw in California: A Description of Its Soil, Climate, Productions, and Gold Mines, with the Best Routes and Latest Information for Intending Emigrants; to Which is Annexed an Appendix Containing Official Documents and Letters Authenticating the Accounts of the Quantities of Gold Found, with Its Actual Value Ascertained by Chemical Assay; also Late Communications Containing Accounts of the Highest Interest and Importance from the Gold Districts; with a Map, by Edwin Bryant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days, by Daniel Knower, illust. by Sigismond de Ivanowski (Gutenberg ebook)
• Death Valley in '49: 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, by William Lewis Manly (Gutenberg ebook)

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