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• Oil! (c1927), by Upton Sinclair (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson (Gutenberg text)
• Ramona (text from 1884 Roberts Bros. edition; illustrations and introduction from 1913 Pasadena edition), by Helen Hunt Jackson, contrib. by A. C. Vroman, illust. by Henry Sandham (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

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

• Glimpses of California and the Missions, by Helen Hunt Jackson (HTML at LOC)
• Semi-Tropical California, by Benjamin Cummings Truman (PDF at loc.gov)
• Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913, by Harris Newmark (HTML at LOC)

• Beyond the Rockies: A Spring Journey in California, by Charles Augustus Stoddard (HTML at LOC)
• "Both Sides Told," or, Southern California As It Is, by Mary C. Vail (HTML at LOC)
• Happy Days in Southern California, by Frederick Hastings Rindge (HTML at LOC)
• Our Italy, by Charles Dudley Warner (HTML at LOC)
• To and Fro in Southern California, by Emma H. Adams (HTML at LOC)
• A Truthful Woman in Southern California, by Kate Sanborn (HTML at LOC)
• Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875, by Benjamin Ignatius Hayes, ed. by Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott (HTML at LOC)
• Santa Barbara and Around There, by Edwards Roberts (HTML at LOC)
• A Winter in California, by Mary H. Wills (HTML at LOC)

• Beaches and Parks in Southern California (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), by California Coastal Commission, ed. by Steve Scholl (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beaches and Parks in Southern California (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), by California Coastal Commission, ed. by Steve Scholl (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beaches and Parks in Southern California (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), by California Coastal Commission, ed. by Steve Scholl (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reminiscences of a Ranger: or, Early Times in Southern California, by Horace Bell (HTML at LOC)

• Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California (full serial archives)

• Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by William B. Friedricks
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998), by Martin R. Ansell (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Tenderfoot in Southern California, by Mina Deane Halsey (HTML at LOC)

• Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer (partial serial archives)

• A-Birding on a Bronco (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Florence Merriam Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer (partial serial archives)

• Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by William B. Friedricks
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by William B. Friedricks
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer (partial serial archives)

• Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer (partial serial archives)

• Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875, by Benjamin Ignatius Hayes, ed. by Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott (HTML at LOC)

• Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Allen John Scott (HTML at UC Press)

• Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Allen John Scott (HTML at UC Press)

• Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875, by Benjamin Ignatius Hayes, ed. by Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott (HTML at LOC)

• Flora of Southern California (Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923), by Anstruther Davidson and George L. Moxley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Allen John Scott (HTML at UC Press)

• The Ape, the Idiot and Other People (fourth edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1910), by W. C. Morrow (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Blix, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• Choy Susan, and Other Stories (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885), by William Henry Bishop (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Daughter of the Vine (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Days of '49 (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Gordon Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Doomswoman: An Historical Romance of Old California, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• The Everlasting Whisper: A Tale of the California Wilderness, by Jackson Gregory (Gutenberg text)
• Fulfillment: A California Novel (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1916), by Emma Wolf
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hear Him Roar (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Andrew Wingfield
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Moran of the Lady Letty, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California, by Geraldine Bonner (Gutenberg text)
• The Valiant Runaways, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• Direct Action: An Historical Novel (San Francisco: GroundWork, c2003), by Luke Hauser, contrib. by Starhawk (PDF with commentary at directaction.org)
• To a God Unknown (c1933), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Pastures of Heaven (c1932), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Crimson Trail of Joaquin Murieta (Los Angeles: Wetzel Pub. Co., c1928), by Ernest Klette (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Comrades: A Story of Social Adventure in California (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1909), by Thomas Dixon, illust. by C. D. Williams
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Pride of Palomar (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1922), by Peter B. Kyne, illust. by Harry Russell Ballinger and Dean Cornwell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Punainen Rutto (The Scarlet Plague in Finnish; Helsinki: Minerva, 1922), by Jack London, trans. by Ilmari Lehto (Gutenberg text)
• Röda Pesten (The Scarlet Plague in Swedish; Stockholm: Bohlin and Co., 1918), by Jack London, trans. by M. Drangel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Scarlet Plague (as published in London Magazine, 1912), by Jack London (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Scarlet Plague (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Jack London, illust. by Gordon Grant
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Scarlet Plague (London: Mills and Boon, ca. 1916), by Jack London
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Wayward Bus (c1947), by John Steinbeck (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Grapes of Wrath (c1939), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• In Dubious Battle (c1936), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Curse of Capistrano (based on the original magazine version, 1919; later editions published as "The Mark of Zorro"), by Johnston McCulley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (third edition; San Francisco: F. MacCrellish, 1874), by John Rollin Ridge (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• The Mark of Zorro (illustrated with photographs from the Douglas Fairbanks film; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Johnston McCulley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mark of Zorro (probably from a reprint copy; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Octopus (Golden Gate edition; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Octopus: A Story of California, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.