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• Natural-Born Proud: A Revery (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2010), by S. R. Martin
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• The Scarlet Plague (London: Mills and Boon, ca. 1916), by Jack London
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• 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)
• American wives and English husbands : a novel (International Association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The avalanche : a mystery story (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1919), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ford (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), by Mary Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transplanted : a novel (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hilda Strafford; a California story (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Beatrice Harraden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erema (Smith, Elder, & Co., 1877), by R. D. Blackmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gray dawn (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pride of Palomar (Grosset & Dunlap, 1921), by Peter B. Kyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The feud of Oakfield Creek : a novel of California life (Houghton, Mifflin, 1887), by Josiah Royce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rules of the game (Doubleday, Page, 1910), by Stewart Edward White and Lejaren A. Hiller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The octopus; a story of California (Doubleday, Page & co., 1901), by Frank Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Argonauts of North Liberty (Houghton Mifflin, 1888), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traduction libre d'Amadis de Gaule (et se trouve a Paris chez Pissot, 1780), by comte de Tressan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gray dawn (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922), by Stewart Edward White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moran of the Lady Letty : a story of adventure off the California coast (Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898), by Frank Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Moses"; a Rocky Mountain sketch. (Woman's Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, 1903), by Edgar Whitaker Work (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cry above the winds : a novel of old California (Morrow, 1951), by J. B. Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Their Mariposa legend : a romance of Catalina (Post Printing and Binding Co., 1921), by Charlotte B. Herr and Orrin White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three partners; or, The big strike on Heavy Tree Hill (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897), by Bret Harte and Mifflin and Company Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Californians (The Macmillan company, 1908), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cuentos de California. ([College Settlement of Califonia], 1904), by Olive Percival, Mrs. Clara Bradley Burdette, and Amanda Mathews Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eshek the oppressor (Madison Book, 1902), by Gertrude Potter Daniels, Alberta Hall, and G. C. Widney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Told at Tuxedo (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1887), by A. M. Emory (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Macao (Commercial Pub. Co., 1892), by Charles A. Gunnison (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summer in a cañon : a California story (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gem of the mines. A thrilling narrative of California life. Composed of scenes and incidents which passed under the immediate observation of the author during five years residence in that state in the early days. (The authoress, 1866), by Jennett Blakeslee Frost and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Hiram in California : more fun and laughter with Uncle Hiram and Aunt Phoebe (H. K. Fly Co., 1917), by Sara White Isaman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gold (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913), by Stewart Edward White, Thomas Fogarty, Eugene F. Saxton, Country Life Press, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down Wild Goose Canyon (Charles Elmer Upton, 1910), by Charles Elmer Upton and Mountain Democrat Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The procession of life : a novel (D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by Horace Annesley Vachell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Los cerritos : A romance of the modern time (John W. Lovell Company, 1890), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yermah the Dorado ; the story of a lost race (Alice Harriman Company, 1913), by Frona Eunice Wait Colburn and Alice Harriman Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shams; or, Uncle Ben's experience with hypocrites. (J. E. Potter, 1894), by John Smith Draper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short stories by California authors ... (Golden Era, 1885), by Harr Wagner, Benjamin Cummings Truman, H. B. McDowell, William Atwell Cheney, Mary Willis Glascock, W. S. Green, J. M. Gally, E. S. C. Cummins, and Ella Sterling Mighels (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl from Four Corners : a romance of California to-day (Henry Holt and Company, 1920), by Rebecca N. Porter, Ada Clendenin Williamson, Quinn & Boden Company, and Henry Holt and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The octopus : a story of California (George N. Morang & Co., 1903), by Frank Norris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old California Joe, the great American sharpshooter. (G. Munro, 1873), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wise as a goose, a novel of the California redwood country. (Lymanhouse, 1939), by Vernon Patterson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The boosters (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1924), by Mark Lee Luther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete works. (P.F. Collier & Son, in the 1880s), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young Californians (D. Appleton & Co., 1891), by Alice B. Haven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little stories of yesterday in California (Arroyo Press, 1906), by Caroline H. W. Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wild western scenes; a narrative of adventures in the western wilderness, the nearest and best California. Wherein the exploits of Daniel Boone, the great American pioneer, are particularly described. Also, minute accounts of bear, deer, and buffalo hunts--desperate conflicts with the savages, who had gold and precious stone on their persons--wolf hunts--fishing and fowling adventures--encounters with serpents, etc. (Grigg, Elliot and Co., 1849), by J. B. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful adventurer. ([s.n.], 1853), by Avis A. Stanwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost Lenore. (De Witt, 1866), by Mayne Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Held to answer : a novel (Little, Brown, and Company, 1916), by Peter Clark MacFarlane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ramona a story (Copp, Clark, 1905), by H. H. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ramona a story (W. Briggs, 1916), by H. H. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jim Skaggs of Skaggsville; a Sierran sketch. (P.I. Figel, 1881), by Laurence Legif (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lastchance Junction, far, far West; a novel (Cupples and Hurd; the Algonquin Press, 1889), by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juan Pico (R.L. Weed, 1899), by Will R. Halpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bursting of a boom (J. B. Lippincott company, 1889), by Frederick R. Sanford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unspotted from the world (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899), by A. C. Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• With Fremont the Pathfinder. (W.A. Wilde Company, 1903), by John Harvey Whitson, William F. Stecher, W.A. Wilde & Co, and W.A. Wilde Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The whaleman's adventures in the Sandwich Islands and California (H.A. Summer & Co., 1884), by William Henry Thomes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three partners, and other tales (Houghton, Mifflin company, 1900), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• The luck of roaring camp, and other stories. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1894), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl of the golden West (Dodd, Mead and company, 1911), by David Belasco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short stories (Golden Era Company, 1886), by Sam P. Davis and Golden Era Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• California trooper (Beadle and Adams, 1883), by Frederick H. Dewey and Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A prodigal daughter (Monfort & Co., 1908), by Mary McCrae Culter and Monfort & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Which one? (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912), by Robert Ames Bennet, J. V. McFall, W.F. Hall Printing Company, and A.C. McClurg & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gates of Olivet (The Macmillan Company, 1922), by Lucille Papin Borden, J.J. Little and Ives Company, and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flight into love (Arcadia House, 1947), by Marea Lambert Gally (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laughter for Tomi (Hillman Curl, Inc., 1938), by Peggy O'More (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Uncle Ben's experience with hypocrites. (Thomas & Thomas, 1899), by John Smith Draper (page images at HathiTrust)
• An itinerant house : and other stories (W. Doxey, 1897), by Emma Frances Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder comes home (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1933., 1933), by Nellise Child (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nuoruuden rakkautta (in Finnish), by Frank Norris, trans. by Irene Mendelin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kultaa (in Finnish), by Stewart Edward White, trans. by Eino Auer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Falcon, of Squawtooth : $b A western story, by Arthur Preston Hankins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Corduroy, by Ruth Comfort Mitchell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The valley of Arcana, by Arthur Preston Hankins (Gutenberg ebook)
• The hollow lens, by Henry Leverage (Gutenberg ebook)
• Friends and Enemies, by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Robert Engle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The squaw spy; or the rangers of the lava-beds, by T. C. Harbaugh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hilda Strafford: A California Story, by Beatrice Harraden, illust. by Eric Pape (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rich men's children, by Geraldine Bonner, illust. by C. M. Relyea (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Rider of the Mohave: A Western Story, by James Fellom (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Scandalized Martians, by Arnold Marmor (Gutenberg ebook)
• Good Night (Buenas Noches), by Eleanor Gates, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Come and Find Me, by Elizabeth Robins, illust. by E. L. Blumenschein (Gutenberg ebook)
• Outland, by Mary Austin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Young Man from Elsewhen, by Sylvia Jacobs (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ignatz, by Ron Goulart (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Little Red Bag, by Jerry Sohl (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Almost-Men, by Irving E. Cox (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl of the Golden West, by David Belasco, illust. by J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg ebook)
• Robinson-koulu: Seikkailuromaani Tyyneltämereltä (in Finnish), by Jules Verne, trans. by Valfrid Hedman (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Vendetta of the Hills, by Willis George Emerson, illust. by Arthur Hutchins (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Man: His Mark. A Romance: Second Edition, by W. C. Morrow, illust. by Elenore Plaisted Abbott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Volpla, by Wyman Guin, illust. by Dick Francis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sybil Chase; or, The Valley Ranche: A Tale of California Life, by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California, by Gustave Aimard, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gold-Seekers: A Tale of California, by Gustave Aimard, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (Gutenberg ebook)
• The San Rosario Ranch, by Maud Howe Elliott (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Rest Hollow Mystery, by Rebecca N. Porter (Gutenberg ebook)
• For the Soul of Rafael, by Marah Ellis Ryan, illust. by Ralph Fletcher Seymour and Harold A. Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mariposilla: A Novel, by Mary Stewart Daggett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Yellow Chief, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Higher Court, by Mary Stewart Daggett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gabriel Conroy, by Bret Harte (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Squatter and the Don: A Novel Descriptive of Contemporary Occurrences in California, by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Heritage of the Hills, by Arthur Preston Hankins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lightnin': After the Play of the Same Name by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon, by Frank Bacon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Adolescents Only, by Irving E. Cox (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Vision of Elijah Berl, by Frank Lewis Nason (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gold, by Stewart Edward White, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg ebook)
• A California Girl, by Edward Eldridge (Gutenberg ebook)
• Eve to the Rescue, by Ethel Hueston, illust. by Dudley Gloyne Summers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Forty-one Thieves: A Tale of California, by Angelo Hall (Gutenberg ebook)
• The She Boss: A Western Story, by Arthur Preston Hankins (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl of the Golden West, by David Belasco (Gutenberg ebook)
• Romance of California Life: Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous, by John Habberton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Four Months Among the Gold-Finders in Alta California: Being the Diary of an Expedition From San Francisco to the Gold Districts, by Henry Vizetelly (Gutenberg ebook)

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