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• California Life Illustrated (New York: Pub. for the author by Carlton and Porter, 1858), by William Taylor
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• Glimpses of California and the Missions, by Helen Hunt Jackson (HTML at LOC)
• Historia Cristiana de la California (in Spanish; Mexico: Imp. de P. Murguia, 1864), trans. by Germán Madrid y Ormaechea (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches, by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Warner's Ranch and its Environs (Los Angeles: Privately printed, 1927), by Joseph J. Hill, contrib. by Herbert Eugene Bolton, illust. by Loren Roberta Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Francisco Palou's Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Father Junípero Serra, Founder of the Franciscan Missions of California (Pasadena, CA: G. W. James, 1913), by Francisco Palóu, ed. by George Wharton James, trans. by C. Scott Williams
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• Relacion Historica de la Vida y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra, y de las Misiones que Fundó en la California Septentrional, y Nuevos Establecimientos de Monterey (in Spanish; México: D. Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1787), by Francisco Palóu
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• Report on the Subject of Land Titles in California, Made in Pursuance of Instructions from the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior (Washington: Gideon and Co., printers, 1850), by William Carey Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Missions and Missionaries of California (original series; 4 volumes; San Francisco: J. H. Barry, 1908-1915), by Zephyrin Engelhardt
  • Volume I (Lower California): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Upper California General History, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Upper California General History, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Upper California General History, Part III): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manuscript, and ed., with copious critical notes (F. P. Harper, 1900), by Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés and Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and works of the Reverend Ferdinand Konšćak, S.J., 1703-1759, an early missionary in California (The Stratford company, 1923), by Ferdinand Konsag and Martin Davorin Krmpotic (page images at HathiTrust)
• The California padres and their missions (Houghton Mifflin company, 1915), by Charles Francis Saunders and J. Smeaton Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• California life illustrated (Pub. for the author, by Carlton & Porter, 1858), by William Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fray Juan Crespi, missionary explorer on the Pacific coast, 1769-1774 (University of California press, 1927), by Juan Crespí, Robert Weldon Brower, and Herbert Eugene Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions and missionaries of California. (The James H. Barry company, 1908), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Franciscan missions of California (G. P. Putnam, 1948), by John A. Berger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical memoirs of New California. Translated into English from the manuscript in the archives of Mexico (University of California press, 1926), by Francisco Palóu and Herbert Eugene Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The founding of the first California missions under the spriritual guidance of the Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra : an historical account of the expeditions sent by land and sea in the year 1769 (Printed at the Nueva California Press, 1934), by Francisco Palóu, Thomas Workman Temple, Douglas S. Watson, and José de Gálvez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Franciscan explorations in California (A. H. Clark, 1946), by Herbert Ingram Priestley and Lillian Estelle Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secularization of the California missions (1810-1846) (The Catholic University of America, 1934), by Gerald Joseph Geary (page images at HathiTrust)
• California: a history of Upper & Lower California from their first discovery to the present time, comprising an account of the climate, soil, natural productions, agriculture, commerce, &c. A full view of the missionary establishments and condition of the free & domesticated Indians, with an appendix relating to steam-navigation in the Pacific, illustrated with a new map, plans of the harbors and numerous engravings (T.C. Russell, 1919), by Alexander Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A natural and civil history of California (University Microfilms, 1966), by Miguel Venegas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Franciscans in California (Holy childhood Indian school, 1897), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palóu's Life of Fray Junípero Serra (Washington : Academy of American Franciscan History, 1955., 1955), by Francisco Palóu and Maynard J. Geiger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cross in the valley: the history of the establishment of the Catholic church in the northern San Joaquin Valley of California up to 1863 (Academy of California Church History, 1963), by Robert Eugene Bonta and Academy of California Church History (page images at HathiTrust)
• In and out of the old missions of California; an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions (Little, Brown and company, 1916), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diary of Fra Junipero Serra, O. F. M.; being an account of his journey from Loreto to San Diego, March 28 to June 30, 1769. The documentary preface to the history of the missions of California. (The Franciscan missionaries of Mary, 1936), by Junípero Serra (page images at HathiTrust)
• California's unbuilt missions; Spanish plans for an inland chain ([Los Angeles, 1930), by George William Beattie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our centennial memoir : founding of the missions, San Francisco de Assis in its hundredth year, the celebration of its foundation, historical reminiscences of the missions of California. (P.J. Thomas, 1877), by Patrick J. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drift o' dreams (Philopolis Press, 1911), by Racine McRoskey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A California pilgrimage, being an account of the observance of the sixty-fifth anniversary of Bishop Kip's first missionary journey through the San Joaquin Valley, together with Bishop Kip's own story of the event commemorated. (For private subscription only, 1921), by Bruce Brough, Louis Childs Sanford, and William Ingraham Kip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in California : being a residence of several years in that territory (William Doxey, At the Sign of the Lark, 1897), by Alfred Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Franciscan missions of California (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1941), by John Anton Berger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden West, souvenir ... primitive years in California (Times-Mirror Printing Co., 1919), by James Alexander Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chimes of mission bells; an historical sketch of California and her missions. (Philopolis Press, 1914), by Maria Antonia Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catholicism on the march, the California missions. (Vantage Press, 1961), by John H. Loth (page images at HathiTrust)
• In and out of the old missions of California; an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions. (Grosset and Dunlap, 1927), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• California missions and their romances (Coward-McCann, 1938), by Mrs. Fremont Older (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time of the bells. (Union-Tribune Pub. Co., 1961), by Richard F Pourade (page images at HathiTrust)
• The penance of Magdalena and other tales of the California missions. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1915), by J. Smeaton Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• In and out of the old missions of California; an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions (Little, Brown, and company, 1905), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• In and out of the old missions of California : an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions (Little, Brown, and company, 1912), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art of the old world in New Spain, and the mission days of Alta California (A.M. Robertson, 1922), by Mary Gordon Holway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of the missions on present-day California (Newman club of the University of California, 1916), by Mary Pius Carroll (page images at HathiTrust)
• California life illustrated (Published for the author, by Carlton & Porter, 1858), by William Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bosquejo histórico del insigne franciscano (Establecimiento tipográfico de B. Reus, 1913), by Francisco Torrens y Nicolau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relacion historica de la vida y apostolicas tareas del venerable padre fray Junipero Serra, y de las misiones que fundó en la California Septentrional, y nuevos establecimientos de Monterey. (en la imprenta de don Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1787), by Francisco Palóu (page images at HathiTrust)
• California life illustrated. (Pub. for the author, by Carlton & Porter, 1858), by William Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• California life illustrated (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder ;, 1867), by William Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• California and its missions; their history to the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (The Whitaker & Ray company (incorporated), 1904), by Bryan J. Clinch, Huntington Free Library, Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian, Library Robert Appleton Company, and Library the Universal Knowledge Foundation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in California, during a residence of several years in that territory: comprising a description of the country and the missionary establishments ... (Wiley & Putnam, 1846), by Alfred Robinson and Gerónimo Boscana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in California : during a residence of several years in that territory; comprising a description of the country and the missionary establishments, with incidents, observations, etc. (H. G. Collins, 1851), by Alfred Robinson and Gerónimo Boscana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old missions and mission Indians of California ... (B. R. Baumgardt & Co., 1895), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The California of the padres; or, Footprints of ancient communism. (I.N. Choynski, 1875), by Elizabeth. Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A natural and civil history of California: containing an accurate description of that country, its soil, mountains, harbours ... The customs of the inhabitants ... before their conversion to the Christian religion ... Together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for settling California and taking actual surveys. (J. Rivington and J. Fletcher, 1759), by Miquel Venegas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Ven. Padre Junipero Serra. (P. E. Doughtery & co., book and job printers, 1884), by Francisco Palou and Joachim Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The California of the padres; or, Footprints of ancient communism. (I. N. Choynski, 1875), by Elizabeth Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions of California, with sketches of the lives of St. Francis and Junipero Serra (The Philopolis Press, 1914), by Racine McRoskey (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels throught Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776 (F. P. Harper, 1900), by Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés and Elliott Coues (page images at HathiTrust)
• El Camino Real : souvenir of Junipero Serra Year, Santa Barbara, December 4, 1934 (Old Mission Church?], 1934), by Victor Marin (page images at HathiTrust)
• California's mission trails : the scenic ocean route between Los Angeles and San Francisco (California Mission Trails Association, 1935), by California Mission Trails Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Se faculta al gobierno para que tome todas las providencias que aseugren la colonizacion, y hagan efectiva la secularizacion de las misiones de la Alta y Baja California . (s.n., 1833), by Antonio López de Santa Anna, Carlos Garcia, and Mexico. Secretaría de Estado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia cristiana de la California. (Impenta [!] de P. Murguia, 1864), by Germán Madrid y Ormaechea and R.G.H. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mission San Luis Rey de Francia : the king of the missions; an historical sketch (San Luis Rey Mission, 1939), by Maynard J. Geiger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Storia delle missioni Francescane in California con illustrazioni (Tipografia Castagno, 1915), by Lodovico Preta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in California before the conquest : Hispano-Californians, léperos, & Indians, Franciscan misioneros & misiones, American & English comerciantes, puertos, presidios, castillos, sailors & backwoodsmen, revolutions & strife (The Private press of T.C. Russell, 1925), by Alfred Robinson and Thomas C. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Francisco Garcés : pioneer padre of Kern (Pub. by the Kern County Historical Society and the County of Kern through its Chamber of Commerce, 1946), by Ardis Manly Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Founding of the missions. San Francisco de Assis in its hundredth year. The celebration of its foundation. Historical reminiscences of the missions of California (P. J. Thomas, 1877), by Patrick J Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chimes of mission bells; an historical sketch of California and her missions (The Philopolis Press, 1918), by Maria Antonia Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of California and the missions (Little, Brown, 1919), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• California life illustrated. (Pub. for the author, by Carlton & Porter, 1860), by William Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• California life illustrated. (Pub. for the author, by Carlton & Porter, 1861), by William Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Catholic church in California (Printed for the author by A.L. Bancroft, and Co., 1872), by W. Gleeson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions and missionaries of California : new series, local history (The J.H. Barry Co., 1920), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cloisters of California (C. Browne, 1917), by Clyde Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tadeus Amat, obispo de Monterey, y Joseph S. Alemany, arzobispo de San Francisco, contra Mexico. Reclamacion num. 493. (Imprenta del gobierno en palacio, a cargo de J. M. Sandoval, 1876), by United States and Mexican Claims Commission, Thaddeus Amat, and Joseph Sadoc Alemany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tadeus Amat (Imprenta del gobierno en palacio, a cargo de J. M. Sandoval, 1876), by United States and Mexican Claims Commission, Joseph Sadoc Alemany, and Thaddeus Amat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle et civile de la Californie, contenant une description exacte de ce pays ... les moeurs de ses habitans, leur religion, leur gouvernement, & leur façon de vivre avant leur conversion au Christianisme; un détail des différens voyages, & tentatives qu'on a faites pour s'y établir. & reconnoître son golfe & la côte de la mer du Sud. Enrichie de la varte du pays & des mers adjacentes. (Durand, 1767), by Miguel Venegas and M. E. (Marc Eidous) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noticias de la Nueva California (s.n.], 1874), by Francisco Palóu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noticias de la provincia de Californias en tres cartas de un sacerdote religioso hijo del real convento de predicadores de Valencia a un amigo suyo. (Por los Hermanos de Orga, 1794), by Luis Sales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in the Californias, and scenes in the Pacific Ocean (Saxton & Miles, 1844), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natürliche und bürgerliche Geschichte von Californien nebst einer neuen Charte dieses Landes und der benachbarten Meere (In der Meyerschen Buchhandlung, 1769), by Miguèl Venegas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early days of California embracing what I saw and heard there, with scenes in the Pacific (J.E. Potter, 1859), by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the trail of a Spanish pioneer : the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776 (F.P. Harper, 1900), by Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions and missionaries of California : index to vols. II-IV (J. H. Barry, 1916), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der kalifornische Kirchengüterstreit zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und Mexiko : Schiedsspruch vom 14. Oktober 1902 auf Grund des Schiedsvergleichs vom 22. Mai 1902 (s.n., 1902), by James Brown Scott and Martha Weistweiler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions of California (A. Belford & Co., 1899), by Eugene Leslie Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• California life illustrated. (Phillips & Hunt, 1878), by William Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and apostolic labors of the Venerable Father Juni pero Serra, founder of the Franciscan missions of California (G.W. James, 1913), by Francisco Palo u and George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Padre Junipero Serra and the mission church of San Carlos del Carmelo (P.E Dougherty & Co., printers, 1884), by Richard Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions and missionaries of California (Mission Santa Barbara, 1929), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions and missionaries of California (J.H. Barry, 1908), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• In and out of the old missions of California; an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions (Little, Brown, and company, 1927), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missions and missionaries of California (The James H. Barry Company, 1908), by Zephyrin Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Fray Junípero Serra (Academy of American Franciscan History, 1955), by Francisco Palóu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of California and the missions (Little, Brown, 1927), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fray Juan Crespi, missionary explorer on the Pacific coast, 1769-1774. (AMS Press, 1971), by Juan Crespí and Herbert Eugene Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juan Maria de Salvatierra of the company of Jesus; missionary in the province of New Spain, and apostolic conqueror of the Californias (The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1929), by Miguel Venegas, Marguerite Eyer Wilbur, and Juan Antonio Oviedo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mexican missions in the south-west (Students benefit publishing co., 1934), by L. E. Troyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Bell and its story. (s.n., 1905), by Spencer Borden (page images at HathiTrust)
• California missions and their romances (Tudor Pub. Co., 1945), by Mrs. Fremont Older (page images at HathiTrust)
• El Camino Real (Woman's Home Missionary Society, in the 1910s), by Alice M. Guernsey and Methodist Episcopal Church. Woman's Home Missionary Society (N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new King's Highway (Woman's Home Missionary Society, in the 1910s), by Alice M. Guernsey and Methodist Episcopal Church. Woman's Home Missionary Society (N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pacific coast Alaska, Washington and Oregon, California. (Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1913), by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
• California : a history of Upper & Lower California ; from their first discovery to the present time, comprising an account of the climate, soil, natural productions, agriculture, commerce, &. ; a full view of the missionary establishments and condition of the free & domesticated Indians ; with an appendix relating to steam-navigation in the Pacific ; illustrated with a new map, plans of the harbors and numerous engravings (T. C. Russell, 1919), by Alexander Forbes and Thomas C. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carved ornamentation of the California mission period. (Work Projects Administration, 1940), by Lanier Bartlett, Index of American Design. Southern California, and United States. Work Projects Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• In and out of the old missions of California : an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions (Little, Brown, 1907), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• In and out of the old missions of California : an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions (Little, Brown, 1922), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of California and the missions (Little, Brown, 1902), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mission memories (Neuner corporation, 1929), by John Steven McGroarty and Frederick V. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tiled roofs; the kind of buildings to which they are suited and a method of construction that makes them practical as well as picturesque: (1907), by Arthur Jerome Eddy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gloria Dei : the story of California mission music (State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the California State Parks Foundation and the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of California, 1974), by Mary Dominic Ray and Joseph H Engbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tratado de las indulgencias en general y en particular : compuesto en dos tomos (Impr. Fraternal, 1838), by Juan Calzada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mission work of California friends (American Friends Board of Foreign Missions, 1912), by American Friends Board of Foreign Missions (page images at HathiTrust)
• A historiographical sketch of pioneer Catholicism in the Californias: missions and missionaries. (California Historical Publications, 1961), by Francis J. Weber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California illustrated : including a trip through Yellowstone Park (DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., 1892), by F. K. Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Junipero and the Mission Indians of California (Little, Brown, 1902), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)

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