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• Caltech's Throop Hall (c1981), by Judith R. Goodstein and Alice Stone (PDF at Caltech)

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• The Industrial Colleges: The Nature of the Education to be Given in Them; Their Several Kinds and Courses of Instruction Considered; To Which is Added, A Communication on the General Plan of the College Building, With the Necessary Aids to Instruction in Each Department of Education (1864), by Lewis Bollman and Richard Owen (HTML and page images at Indiana)

• The Class of 2014: Preserving Access to California Higher Education, by George S. Park and Robert J. Lempert (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• About SLATE (1959), by SLATE (Organization : California) (page images at slatearchives.org)

• We Want a University (ca. 1965), by Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.), contrib. by Neal Blumenfeld (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)
• FSM: The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, by Bettina Aptheker, Robert Kaufman, and Michael Folsom (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 1960s (revised electronic edition, 1999), by David Lance Goines (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at cdlib.org)

• The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Simon Marginson (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Breaking the Social Contract: The Fiscal Crisis in California Higher Education, by Roger Benjamin and Stephen J. Carroll (PDF files at rand.org)

• Breaking the Social Contract: The Fiscal Crisis in California Higher Education, by Roger Benjamin and Stephen J. Carroll (PDF files at rand.org)

• The Class of 2014: Preserving Access to California Higher Education, by George S. Park and Robert J. Lempert (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Breaking the Social Contract: The Fiscal Crisis in California Higher Education, by Roger Benjamin and Stephen J. Carroll (PDF files at rand.org)

• The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Simon Marginson (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• The Commercial, Industrial, Agricultural, Transportation, and Other Interests of California: Being a Report on that State for 1890 Made to S. G. Brock, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics (Washington: GPO, 1891), by Thomas J. Vivian and United States Department of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eldorado: or, California As Seen By a Pioneer, 1850-1900 (Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt and Co., 1900), by David Augustus Shaw
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Native Son, by Inez Haynes Gillmore (Gutenberg text)
• The Resources of California, by John S. Hittell (page images at MOA)
• Scenes of Life in California, by Friedrich Gerstäcker, trans. by George Cosgrave (HTML at LOC)
• Sketches of California (1925 magazine edition), by Frederick A. Gay (HTML at LOC)
• Wonderland: or, Twelve Weeks in and out of the United States, by Edward S. Parkinson (HTML at LOC)

• Contributions to California Archaeology (partial serial archives)
• University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology (1903-1964) (partial serial archives)

• California Pastoral (San Francisco: The History Co., 1888), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• California and Californians (4 volumes; Chicago et al.: Lewis Pub. Co., 1932), ed. by Rockwell D. Hunt, contrib. by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (page images at HathiTrust)
• California and Californians (5 volumes; Chicago et al.: Lewis Pub. Co., 1926), ed. by Rockwell D. Hunt, contrib. by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study (San Francisco: History Co., 1891-1892), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prentice Mulford's Story: Life by Land and Sea (New York: F. J. Needham, 1889), by Prentice Mulford
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and XML at loc.gov
• Ginny Good (electronic edition; text and audio by the author), by Gerard Jones (HTML with commentary at everyonewhosanyone.com)
• A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)

• California Mennonites (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2015), by Brian Froese (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Gospel Pioneering: Reminiscences of Early Congregationalism in California, 1833-1920, by William C. Pond (HTML at LOC)

• Global Climate Change and California: Potential Impacts and Responses (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), ed. by Joseph B. Knox and Ann Foley Scheuring (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• The Natural Wealth of California, by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)

• The Resources of California, by John S. Hittell (page images at MOA)

• Vancouver in California, 1792-1794: The Original Account of George Vancouver (2 text volumes and 1 map volume in 1; Los Angeles: G. Dawson, 1953-1954), by George Vancouver, ed. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• A Gil Blas in California (Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1933), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California: Reproduced in Facsimile from the Original Edition of 1845, with Historical Note and Bibliography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932), by Lansford Warren Hastings, ed. by Charles Henry Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rezanov Voyage to Nueva California in 1806 (San Francisco: The Private press of Thomas C. Russell, 1926), by Nikolaĭ Petrovich Rezanov, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
• Seeing California (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by William G. Paden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Between the Gates, by Benjamin F. Taylor (HTML at LOC)
• Bits of Travel at Home (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1878), by Helen Hunt Jackson (illustrated HTML at Yosemite Web)
• Bound for Sacramento, by Carl Meyer (HTML at LOC)
• California and the Californians, by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text)
• California and the West, 1881, and Later, by Lloyd Vernon Briggs (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 Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride From Mexico to Oregon (1913), by J. Smeaton Chase (illustrated HTML at ventanawild.org)
• California Desert Trails (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919), by J. Smeaton Chase (page images in Germany)
• California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence (New York: Harper and Bros., 1873), by Charles Nordhoff
  • PDF at loc.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• California, In-Doors and Out, by Eliza W. Farnham (HTML at LOC)
• California Notes, by Charles B. Turrill (HTML at LOC)
• California Pastoral (San Francisco: The History Co., 1888), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• California Revisited, 1858-1897, by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (HTML at LOC)
• California Sketches, by Thomas S. Chard (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• California Sketches (old and new volumes), by O. P. Fitzgerald (HTML at LOC)
• California Sketches, With Recollections of the Gold Mines, by Leonard Kip (HTML at LOC)
• The Californiacs, by Inez Haynes Gillmore (Gutenberg text)
• The Californiacs (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916), by Inez Haynes Gillmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse, by Benjamin Parke Avery (PDF at loc.gov)
• The Californians, by Walter M. Fisher (HTML at LOC)
• Echoes of the Past About California, by John Bidwell (HTML at LOC)
• The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (Cincinnati: G. Conclin, 1845), by Lansford Warren Hastings (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Far-West Sketches, by Jessie Benton Frémont (HTML at LOC)
• Glances at California, 1847-1853, by Wm. R. Hutton (HTML at LOC)
• Glimpses of Hungryland: or, California Sketches, by W. S. Walker (HTML at LOC)
• Golden Dreams and Waking Realities, by William Shaw (HTML at LOC)
• Granite Crags (1884 edition), by C. F. Gordon Cumming (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• Granite Crags of California (new edition; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1886), by C. F. Gordon Cumming (page images at Mystic Seaport)
• In the Footprints of the Padres, by Charles Warren Stoddard (HTML at LOC)
• Incidents on Land and Water: or, Four Years on the Pacific Coast, by Mrs. D. B. Bates
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• A Journey To, On, and From the "Golden Shore", by Sue A. Pike Sanders (HTML at LOC)
• À la California, by Albert S. Evans (PDF at LOC)
• Letters From California, by Harriet Harper (HTML at LOC)
• Letters from California, by David L. Phillips (HTML at LOC)
• Letters from the Pacific Slope, by Harvey Rice (HTML at LOC)
• Letters of Travel in California, in the Winter and Spring of 1896, by Loraine Immen (HTML at LOC)
• Life in the Open: Sport with Rod, Gun, Horse, and Hound in Southern California, by Charles Frederick Holder (HTML at LOC)
• "Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers: Being Letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and Ending in 1873 (1874), by Caroline M. Churchill
  • PDF and XML and loc.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Lure of the Past, the Present and Future, by George W. Bryan (HTML at LOC)
• Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby: Reminiscences of California and Guatemala From 1849 to 1864, by Elisha Oscar Crosby (HTML at LOC)
• Mountains and Molehills, by Frank Marryat (HTML at LOC)
• The Mountains of California, by John Muir
  • illustrated HTML at Sierra Club
  • SGML and text at LOC
  • Gutenberg text
• Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (main text by Nordhoff, with an appendix by Remy translated by Brigham; New York: Harper and Bros., 1875), by Charles Nordhoff, trans. by William Tufts Brigham, contrib. by Jules Remy
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Notebooks of James Gillespie Hamilton, by James Gillespie Hamilton (HTML at LOC)
• Notes of Two Trips to California and Return, Taken in 1883 and 1886-7, by Solomon Mead (HTML at LOC)
• Old Californian Days, by James W. Steele (HTML at LOC)
• Over the Purple Hills: or, Sketches of Travel in California, by Caroline M. Churchill (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• Prentice Mulford's Story: Life by Land and Sea (New York: F. J. Needham, 1889), by Prentice Mulford
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and XML at loc.gov
• Roughing It De Luxe (New York: G. H. Doran CO., c1914), by Irvin S. Cobb, illust. by John T. McCutcheon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California (1862), by J. M. Hutchings (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)
• The Silverado Squatters (New york: J. W. Lovell Co., 1888), by Robert Louis Stevenson (HTML at LOC)
• The Silverado Squatters (London: Chatto and Windus, 1906), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by J. D. Strong (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Six Months in California, by J. G. Player-Frowd (HTML at LOC)
• Summer Saunterings, by Derrick Dodd (HTML at LOC)
• The Sunset Land, by John Todd (HTML at LOC)
• T. Butler King's Report on California (1850), by T. Butler King
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Two Years in California (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co., 1876), by Mary Cone
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at loc.gov
• Up and Down California in 1860-1864, by William Henry Brewer, ed. by Francis P. Farquhar (HTML at LOC)
• A Winter in California, by Mary H. Wills (HTML at LOC)
• The Adventures of a Forty-Niner, by Daniel Knower (HTML at LOC)
• Bits of Travel; Bits of Travel at Home (combined edition of 1874 and 1890 texts, with added illustrations), by Helen Hunt Jackson, ed. by Louise Hope (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, by Mrs. Frank Leslie, contrib. by Madeleine B. Stern (PDF at LOC)
• California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1877), by Mrs. Frank Leslie (page images at HathiTrust)
• California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants, by H. V. Huntley (HTML at LOC)
• A California Tramp and Later Footprints, by Thaddeus S. Kenderdine (HTML at LOC)
• Camping Out in California, by Mrs. J. B. Rideout (HTML at LOC)
• Eldorado: or, Adventures in the Path of Empire (two volumes), by Bayard Taylor
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• Gerstäcker's Travels, by Friedrich Gerstäcker (HTML at LOC)
• Journal of a Voyage Between China and the North-Western Coast of America Made in 1804 (extract from the American Register, 1808), by William Shaler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life at Puget Sound, With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California (1884), by Caroline C. Leighton (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington)
• Memories, Some of Many (Berkeley: H. S. Howard, 1920), by Annie V. Finn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Narrative of a Japanese (two volumes), by Joseph Heco, ed. by James Murdoch (HTML at LOC)
• Ramblings in California, by Pringle Shaw (HTML at LOC)
• The Round Trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate, by Susie C. Clark (HTML at LOC)
• Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California (Boston: American Tract Society, c1865), by Mary E. Anderson (page images at Google)
• 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)
• A Start in Life. A Journey Across America. Fruit Farming in California., by Charles Finch Dowsett (HTML at LOC)
• Three Years in California, by Walter Colton
  • PDF and XML at loc.gov
  • page images at MOA
• A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country, by T. D. Beasley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Travels With Jottings, From Midland to the Pacific (1880), by Edward D. Holton (PDF at loc.gov)
• The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California, by Samuel Kneeland
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web
  • page images at MOA
• The 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 and Co.; Philadelphia: G. S. Appleton, 1849), by John Charles Frémont and William H. Emory (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Life Illustrated (New York: The author, 1858), by William Taylor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at MOA
• Diary of a Physician in California, by James Lawrence Tyson (HTML at LOC)
• A Frenchman in the Gold Rush, by Ernest de Massey, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
• The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction, by Hinton Rowan Helper
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• McNeil's Travels in 1849, To, Through, and From the Gold Regions, in California, by Samuel McNeil (HTML at LOC)
• Narrative of a Journey Round the World, During the Years 1841 and 1842 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1847), by George Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9 (two volumes), by William Redmond Ryan (HTML at LOC)
• A Pioneer at Sutter's Fort, 1846-1850, by Heinrich Lienhard, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
• Records of a California Family, by Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn, ed. by Anna Lee Marston (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)
• What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and At the Hawaiian Islands (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865), by H. Willis Baxley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Yurok Geography (offprint from University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology; Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1920), by T. T. Waterman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys, by H. J. Crumpton and Washington Bryan Crumpton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• California Letters of Lucius Fairchild, by Lucius Fairchild, ed. by Joseph Schafer (HTML at LOC)
• Deck and Port: or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California; with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco (New York: A. S. Barnes; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1850), by Walter Colton (page images at MOA)
• An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
• From East Prussia to the Golden Gate, by Frank Lecouvreur (HTML at LOC)
• The Natural Wealth of California, by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)
• Ranch Life in California, by Evelyn M. Herstlet (HTML at LOC)
• The Trek of the Seven Sisters, by Monica Corrigan (illustrated HTML and PDF at Arizona)

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