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• California Gold Rush, 1848-1852
• California Gold Rush

• One Man's Gold: The Letters and Journal of a Forty-Niner (1930), by Enos Christman, ed. by Florence Morrow Christman (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• The Adventures of a Forty-Niner, by Daniel Knower (HTML at LOC)
• The Argonauts of Forty-Nine, by David Rohrer Leeper (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• California Gold (1933 magazine reprint), by James Stephens Brown (HTML at LOC)
• California Gold Rush Merchant, by Stephen Chapin Davis (HTML at LOC)
• California Illustrated, by J. M. Letts
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants, by H. V. Huntley (HTML at LOC)
• The Diary of a Forty-Niner (c1906), by Chauncey L. Canfield (PDF and XML with commentary at loc.gov)
• Eldorado: or, Adventures in the Path of Empire (two volumes), by Bayard Taylor
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• The Gold Seekers of '49, by Kimball Webster (HTML at LOC)
• The Inside Story of the Gold Rush, by Jacques Antoine Moerenhout (HTML at LOC)
• McNeil's Travels in 1849, To, Through, and From the Gold Regions, in California, by Samuel McNeil (HTML at LOC)
• Ramblings in California, by Pringle Shaw (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)
• Scharmann's Overland Journey to California, by Herman B. Scharmann, trans. by Margaret Hoff Zimmerman and Erich W. Zimmerman (HTML at LOC)
• Sights in the Gold Region, and Scenes by the Way, by Theodore T. Johnson (HTML at LOC)
• Six Months in the Gold Mines: From a Journal of Three Years' Residence in Upper and Lower California, 1847-8-9 (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1850), by E. Gould Buffum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • transcription: PDF and XML at loc.gov
• Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings, by Daniel Bates Woods (HTML at LOC)
• Three Years in California, by John David Borthwick
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images in Germany
• 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)
• Around the Horn in '49, by Hartford Union Mining and Trading Company (HTML at LOC)
• The Autobiography of Charles Peters, by Charles Peters (illustrated HTML at LOC)
• Bound for Sacramento, by Carl Meyer (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)
• 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, In-Doors and Out, by Eliza W. Farnham (HTML at LOC)
• Early Recollections of the Mines, and A Description of the Great Tulare Valley, by James H. Carson (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• Early Voyages to California, by Alfred Peabody and J. H. Eagleston (HTML at LOC)
• Echoes of the Past About California, by John Bidwell (HTML at LOC)
• A Forty-Niner Speaks, by Hiram Dwight Pierce (HTML at LOC)
• The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
• A Frenchman in the Gold Rush, by Ernest de Massey, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
• Gold and Sunshine: Reminiscences of Early California, by James J. Ayers (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
• The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction, by Hinton Rowan Helper
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• A Letter from A Gold Miner, Placerville, California, October 1850, by S. Shufelt, contrib. by Robert Glass Cleland (HTML at LOC)
• Mountains and Molehills, by Frank Marryat (HTML at LOC)
• Old Californian Days, by James W. Steele (HTML at LOC)
• Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9 (two volumes), by William Redmond Ryan (HTML at LOC)
• 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
• Scenes of Life in California, by Friedrich Gerstäcker, trans. by George Cosgrave (HTML at LOC)
• A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848, by John Alfred Swan, ed. by John A. Hussey (HTML at LOC)
• A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush, by Franklin Agustus Buck (HTML at LOC)
• California: A Trip Across the Plains, In the Spring of 1850, by James Abbey (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• California Letters of Lucius Fairchild, by Lucius Fairchild, ed. by Joseph Schafer (HTML at LOC)
• Death Valley in '49, by William Lewis Manly (HTML at LOC)
• Edmund Booth (1810-1905) Forty-Niner: The Life Story of a Deaf Pioneer, by Edmund Booth (HTML at LOC)
• Golden Dreams and Waking Realities, by William Shaw (HTML at LOC)
• Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49, by Lorenzo Dow Stephens (HTML at LOC)
• Memories of Early Wisconsin and the Gold Mines, by John Barber Parkinson (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (HTML at LOC)
• Personal Recollections, by Harvey Wood (HTML at LOC)
• Reminiscence of George K. Goodwin (1881), by George K. Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52, by Dame Shirley, ed. by Thomas C. Russell (HTML at LOC)
• The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys, by H. J. Crumpton and Washington Bryan Crumpton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
• Diary of a Physician in California, by James Lawrence Tyson (HTML at LOC)
• The Diary of Johann August Sutter, by John Augustus Sutter (HTML at LOC)
• An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada (two volumes), by William Kelly (HTML at LOC)
• From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer, by Henry Hiram Ellis (PDF at LOC)
• Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings, by Alonzo Delano (HTML at LOC)
• A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)
• A Pioneer at Sutter's Fort, 1846-1850, by Heinrich Lienhard, trans. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of California, 1846-1861, by William T. Sherman (HTML at LOC)
• A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California, With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, Including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles (London: Richard Bentley, 1852), by Henry J. Coke (page images in Germany)
• Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico and California, by L. M. Schaeffer (HTML at LOC)

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