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• 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)

• 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 Clara County, California (San Francisco : Alley, Bowen and Co., 1881), ed. by J. P. Munro-Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Siskiyou County, California: Illustrated With Views of Residences, Business Buildings and Natural Scenery, and Containing Portraits and Biographies of its Leading Citizens and Pioneers (Oakland, CA: D. J. Stewart and Co., 1881), by Harry Laurenz Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • possible reprint: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• History of Stanislaus County, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With its Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present (Los Angeles: Historic Record Co., 1921), by George H. Tinkham (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• 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

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

• Congressman From India (c1960), by Dalip Singh Saund (illustrated HTML at saund.org)

• The Life and Career of Tiburcio Vasquez, the California Stage Robber (Oskland, CA: Biobooks, 1944), by Eugene T. Sawyer, contrib. by Joseph A. Sullivan (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 (Publications of the California Sttae Library #1; 1893), by Winfield J. Davis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit, Joaquin Murrieta: His Exploits in the State of California (Chicago: Regan Pub. Corp., 1925), by Ireneo Paz, trans. by Frances P. Belle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vida y Aventuras del Más Célebre Bandido Sonorense, Joaquín Murrieta, y Sus Grandes Proezas en el Estado de California (sixth edition, in Spanish; Los Angeles: C. G. Vincent and Co., 1923), by Ireneo Paz
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit, Joaquin Murrieta: His Exploits in the State of California (Chicago: Regan Pub. Corp., 1925), by Ireneo Paz, trans. by Frances P. Belle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vida y Aventuras del Más Célebre Bandido Sonorense, Joaquín Murrieta, y Sus Grandes Proezas en el Estado de California (sixth edition, in Spanish; Los Angeles: C. G. Vincent and Co., 1923), by Ireneo Paz
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• My Life in Prison (New York and London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912), by Donald Lowrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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

• Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit, Joaquin Murrieta: His Exploits in the State of California (Chicago: Regan Pub. Corp., 1925), by Ireneo Paz, trans. by Frances P. Belle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vida y Aventuras del Más Célebre Bandido Sonorense, Joaquín Murrieta, y Sus Grandes Proezas en el Estado de California (sixth edition, in Spanish; Los Angeles: C. G. Vincent and Co., 1923), by Ireneo Paz
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)

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