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• Reminiscences of a Ranger: or, Early Times in Southern California, by Horace Bell (HTML at LOC)
• A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties : also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present (Historic record company, 1907), by James Miller Guinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cattle on a thousand hills; Southern California, 1850-1870 (The Huntington Library, 1941), by Robert Glass Cleland, Hatherly B. Todd, Joseph Z. Todd, and Abel Stearns (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cattle on a thousand hills : Southern California, 1850-1880. (Huntington Library, 1951), by Robert Glass Cleland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Don Bernardo Yorba. (Glen Dawson, 1941), by Terry Elmo Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Warner's Ranch and its environs (Priv. print., 1927), by Joseph J. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Millionaires of a day: an inside history of the great southern California "boom." (Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1890), by Theodore S. Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Millionaires of a day: an inside history of the great southern California "boom." (Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1892), by Theodore S. Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of achievement in the great Southwest. Illustrated. A story of pioneer struggles during early days in Los Angeles and Southern California. With biographies, heretofore unpublished facts, anecdotes, and incidents in the lives of the builders. (Los Angeles Times, 1904), by George Ward Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and biographical record of southern California; containing a history of southern California from its earliest settlement to the opening year of the twentieth century (Chapman pub. co., 1902), by J. M. Guinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties : also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present (Historic Record Company, 1907), by J. M Guinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and biographical record of southern California : containing a history of southern California from its earliest settlement to the opening year of the twentieth century ; also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present (Chapman Pub. Co., 1902), by J. M. Guinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern California at a glance : history, romance, maps, facts, statistics (The Company, 1930), by States Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California of the south ; a history. (S. J. Clarke publishing co., inc., 1933), by John Steven McGroarty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Don Bernardo Yorba. (G. Dawson, 1963), by Terry E. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jottings in Southern California history (Ward Ritchie Press, 1955), by Marco Ross Newmark and Ward Ritchie Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The pressing needs of the Warner ranch and other mission Indians in Southern California : an appeal for prompt Congressional action (The Association, 1901), by Indian Rights Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California (full serial archives)
• Southern California quarterly. (Historical Society of Southern California., 1962), by Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Quarterly. (Los Angeles., 1884), by Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer register (Historical Society of Southern California, 1884), by Pioneers of Los Angeles County and Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual publications of the Historical Society of Southern California and the ... annual publication of the Pioneers of Los Angeles County (Historical Society of Southern California, 1905), by Pioneers of Los Angeles County and Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documents from the Sutro Collection (Historical Society of Southern California, 1891), by Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer register, Los Angeles 1900 (The Society, 1897), by Pioneers of Los Angeles County and Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California and of the Pioneers of Los Angeles County (Geo. Rice & Sons, 1902), by Pioneers of Los Angeles County and Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quarterly publication of the Historical Society of Southern California 1936-1949 (The Society, 1936), by Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California v. 1, 1911-v. 10, 1915/1917 (The Society, 1891), by Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles : [publication] (The Society, 1890), by Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles : [publications] (Times-Mirror print, 1884), by Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California (Historical Society of Southern California, 1893), by Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California (Reprinted for Dawson's Bookshop, 1884), by Historical Society of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 (Kingsley, Mason & Collins, 1913), by Florence Collins Porter and Helen Brown Trask (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the bench and bar of southern California (W. J. Porter, 1909), by Willoughby Rodman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of achievement in the great Southwest. Illustrated. A story of pioneer struggles during early days in Los Angeles and Southern California. With biographies, heretofore unpublished facts, anecdotes, and incidents in the lives of the builders. (Los Angeles Times, 1904), by George Ward Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and biographical record of southern California; containing a history of southern California from its earliest settlement to the opening year of the twentieth century (Chapman pub. co., 1902), by J. M. Guinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties : also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present (Historic Record Company, 1907), by J. M Guinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and biographical record of southern California : containing a history of southern California from its earliest settlement to the opening year of the twentieth century ; also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present (Chapman Pub. Co., 1902), by J. M. Guinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• California of the south ; a history. (S. J. Clarke publishing co., inc., 1933), by John Steven McGroarty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jottings in Southern California history (Ward Ritchie Press, 1955), by Marco Ross Newmark and Ward Ritchie Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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

• A history of the medical profession of southern California (Times-Mirror, 1910), by George H. Kress (page images at HathiTrust)

• A union list of local documents in libraries of Southern California (Sixth district, California library association, 1935), by California Library Association. Southern district and Helen Elizabeth Vogleson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The San Diego Project (Bureau of Reclamation History Program, 1993), by Robert Autobee and United States. Bureau of Reclamation. History Program (page images at HathiTrust)

• An oral history of coastal engineering activities in Southern California : 1930-1981 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, 1986), by William J Herron and United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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• 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)
• Southern California : its valleys, hills and streams; its animals, birds, and fishes; its gardens, farms and climate (Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1886), by Theodore S. Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of a ranger : or, Early times in Southern California (W. Hebberd, 1927), by Horace Bell, James S. Bodrero, and Arthur M. Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through Ramona's country (Little, Brown and company, 1908), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great California deserts (Putnam, 1963), by W. Storrs Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The southern Sierras of California (Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923., 1923), by Charles Francis Saunders and Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixty years in Southern California. 1853-1913, containing the reminiscences of Harris Newmark (Houghton Mifflin company, 1930), by Harris Newmark, Marco Ross Newmark, Maurice Harris Newmark, and James Perry Worden (page images at HathiTrust)
• California of the south, its physical geography, climate, resources, routes of travel, and health resorts; being a complete guide book to southern California (D. Appleton and company, 1888), by Walter Lindley and Joseph Pomeroy Widney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of California and the missions (Little, Brown, 1914), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morrow Bay to Mexican border (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, 1987), by Larry J Pierson, Richard A Slater, Calif.) PS Associates (Cardiff by the Sea, and United States Minerals Management Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Use of small otter trawls in coastal biological surveys (U.S. Corvallis Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ;, 1978), by Alan J Mearns, M. James Allen, and Corvallis Environmental Research Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mediterranean shores of America. Southern California: its climatic, physical, and meteorological conditions. (The F.A. Davis Co., 1892), by P. C. Remondino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine environmental study plan for the Southern California Outer Continental Shelf area, Southern California Borderland region : draft ([publisher not identified], 1976), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern California baseline study draft report ([publisher not identified], 1976), by United States Bureau of Land Management (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern California; a book for the million. (Ramsey Print., 1877), by James De Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greater Los Angeles and Southern California; portraits and personal memoranda. (Lewis Publishing Co., 1910), by Robert J. Burdette (page images at HathiTrust)
• California of the south. (D. Appleton and company, 1888), by Walter Lindley and J. P. Widney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern California, comprising the counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura (Southern California Panama expositions commission, 1914), by Southern California Panama Expositions Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greater Los Angeles and southern California, their portraits and chronological record of their careers (The Lewis publishing company, 1906), by Robert J. Burdette (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913, containing the reminiscences of Harris Newmark (The Knickerbocker press, 1916), by Harris Newmark, J. Perry Worden, Marco Ross Newmark, and Maurice Harris Newmark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of California and the missions (Little, Brown, 1919), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through Ramona's country (Little, Brown, 1911), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of California and the mission (Little, Brown, & company, 1902), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Southern California: an authentic description of its natural features, resources, and prospects ... information for the homeseeker, tourist, and invalid. (Bureau of Information Print., 1892), by Southern California Bureau of Information (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913, containing the reminiscences of Harris Newmark (Knickerbocker Press, 1916), by Harris Newmark, J. Perry Worden, Marco Ross Newmark, and Maurice Harris Newmark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through Ramona's country (Little, Brown, 1913), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress report on study of beach nourishment along the southern California coastline (The Dept., 1967), by California. Department of Water Resources. Southern District (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Irrigation in California (Southern) : the field, water-supply and works, organization and operation in San Diego, San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties (State Office, J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1888), by Wm. Ham. Hall and California. Engineer Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond the Rockies : a spring journey in California (Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1894), by Charles Augustus Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homes in Los Angeles city and county, and description thereof, with sketches of the four adjacent counties; being an answer to inquiries concerning their progress, attractions and resources (Mirror Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1873), by William McPherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paleogeography of the western Transverse Range Province, California : new evidence from the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene Vaqueros Formation (U.S. Geological Survey, 1998), by Catherine A. Rigsby, Richard J. Behl, Pedro C. Ramirez, James C. Ingle, Robert E. Garrison, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hindcast hurricane swell for the coast of Southern California (Vicksburg, Mississippi : Waterways Experiment Station ; Springfield, Virginia : available from National Technical Information Service, 1990., 1990), by Barbara A. Tracy, Jon M. Hubertz, Wave Information Studies of the U.S. Coastlines, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.), and U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of California and the missions (Little, Brown, 1927), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water resources summary for Southern California, 1956 (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1957), by Walter Hofmann and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of California and the missions (Little, Brown, 1902), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shrub population dynamics in unburned Californian coastal sage scrub and adjacent grassland (1997), by Sandra A. Desimone, Davis University of California, and San Diego State University (page images at HathiTrust)
• A joint evaluation of the South Coast Air Quality Management District Program (The Board, 1987), by California Air Resources Board and United States Environmental Protection Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imperial Valley and Tehachapi implementation groups : PIER final project report (California Energy Commission, 2011), by David Olsen, Rich Ferguson, Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, and California Energy Commission. Public Interest Energy Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advanced characterization of wind resources in selected focus areas of California : final project report ([Sacramento, Calif.] : California Energy Commission, [2010], 2010), by Rich Ossiboff, Bruce Bailey, LLC AWS Truepower, and California Energy Commission. Energy Research and Development Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forest fire control in Southern California : hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session, on matters relative to the control of forest and brush fires in Southern California. (U.S. G.P.O., 1958), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Provision of an additional Veterans' Administration hospital in southern California : hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, first session on location of a new Veterans' Administration hospital in southern California (Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1967, 1967), by United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and United States. Congress. 1967). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Northridge earthquake : extent of damage and federal response : hearing before the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, April 11, 1994, in Los Angeles, CA. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States House Committee on Public Works and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Evolution of the Southern California uplift, 1955 through 1976 (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by Robert O. Castle and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Report on floods of January and February 1969 in Southern California] : appendix (Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1969), by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water resources summary for Southern California. (Menlo Park, Ca., 1944), by Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic demand for surplus northern California water in southern California area : summary statement (1958), by California Department of Water Resources and California. State Water Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Endangered environments : Southern California estuaries and coastal wetlands (The Bureau, 1972), by United States. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remote sensing of Southern California oil pollution experiment. (National Technical Information Service, 1971), by W. E. Lehr and United States. Coast Guard. Applied Technology Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Movement of sand around southern California promontories ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Beach Erosion Board, 1955., 1955), by Parker D. Trask, United States War Department, United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers, and United States. Beach Erosion Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ShakeOut scenario : effects of a potential M7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in Southern California ([Reston, Virginia] : U.S. Geological Survey. 2008, 2008), by Anne M. Wein, Jerry Treiman, Kimberley Shoaf, Hope A. Seligson, Michael Stephen Reichle, Keith A. Porter, D. J. Ponti, Suzanne Perry, Dennis S. Mileti, Kenneth W. Hudnut, James Goltz, Dale A. Cox, Richard L. Bernknopf, and Lucile M. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prehistoric and indigenous Indian arts of Southern California (Long Beach, Calif. : Long Beach Museum of Art, [1958], 1958), by Charles E. Rozaire, M. R. Harrington, and Long Beach Museum of Art (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stratigraphy of the Punchbowl formation and Tertiary geology of Cajon Valley, Southern California (Riverside : Deptartment of Geological Sciences, University of California, 1971., 1971), by Michael O. Woodburne and David J. Golz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ground waters and irrigation enterprises in the foothill belt, southern California (Govt. Print. Off., 1908), by Walter Curran Mendenhall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acidic aerosol size distributions during SCAQS : final report (Research Division, California Air Resources Board, 1989), by Walter John, California. Air Resources Board. Research Division, and California. Air and Industrial Hygiene Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hydrologic data (The Department, 1963), by California Department of Water Resources (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Point Conception and alternate sites (Slosson and Associates, 1977), by J.H. Wiggins Company, Slosson and Associates, and California Public Utilities Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life in the open : sport with rod, gun, horse, and hound in Southern California (Putnam's, 1906), by Charles Frederick Holder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixty years in Southern California, 1853-1913 : containing the reminiscences of Harris Newmark (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930), by Harris Newmark, J. Perry Worden, Marco Ross Newmark, and Maurice Harris Newmark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• East Mojave National Scenic Area environmental assessment (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, California Desert District, Needles Resource Area, 1988), by John R. Bailey and United States. Bureau of Land Management. Needles Resource Area (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern California : its climate, trails, mountains, canyons, watering places, fruits, flowers and game : a guide-book (Times-Mirror Co., 1888), by Charles Frederick Holder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern California business. (Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, 1922), by Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913: Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark, by Harris Newmark, ed. by Marco Ross Newmark and Maurice Harris Newmark, contrib. by J. Perry Worden (Gutenberg ebook)

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