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• Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad (San Francisco, CA: Women's Union Print, 1873), by James Williams
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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• Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad (San Francisco, CA: Women's Union Print, 1873), by James Williams
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)
• 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
• 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)

• No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Reminiscences and Incidents of "The Early Days" of San Francisco, by John Henry Brown (HTML at LOC)
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, ed. by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text)

• History of Santa Barbara County, California, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Oakland, CA: Thompson and West, 1883), ed. by Jesse D. Mason (multiple formats at archive.org)

• History of Santa Barbara County, California, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Oakland, CA: Thompson and West, 1883), ed. by Jesse D. Mason (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Yosemite Indians and Other Sketches (1936), by Mrs. H. J. Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at Yosemite Web)

• From Chickens to Prospecting (New York et al.: Vantage Press, c1958), by Oscar Daloian (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of a Chef (New York: Comet Press Books, 1958), by Edward F. Mathieu (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 (1893), by Winfield J. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• California Copy (Washington: Washington College Press, c1928), by Geo. F. Weeks
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, With Other Sketches, by Stephen J. Field (HTML at LOC)

• Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, With Other Sketches, by Stephen J. Field (HTML at LOC)

• Country Nodes: An Anthropological Evaluation of William Keys' Desert Queen Ranch, Joshua Tree National Monument, California (Washington : Cultural Resources Management Division, 1977), by Patricia L. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
• Seventy-Five Years in California, by William Heath Davis, ed. by Douglas S. Watson (HTML at LOC)
• Death Valley in '49, by William Lewis Manly (HTML at LOC)
• McNeil's Travels in 1849, To, Through, and From the Gold Regions, in California, by Samuel McNeil (HTML at LOC)

• The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)

• Ranch Life in California, by Evelyn M. Herstlet (HTML at LOC)

• Bound for Sacramento, by Carl Meyer (HTML at LOC)